U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment (MS117), 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268

A -- MULTIMEDIA ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE PATHWAYS OF EXPOSURE TO WASTE (HAZARDOUS OR SOLID) TREATMENT PRACTICES, SPECIFICALLY IN THE AREA OF COMBUSTION SOL NCEA-CIN-01 DUE 042098 POC Donna Tucker, Fax No. (513) 569-7475 E-MAIL: Click here to e-mail EPA Contact, tucker.donna@epamail.epa.gov. Requirements -- The United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment -- Cincinnati Office, (NCEA-CIN) seeks preproposals to conduct multipathway exposure assessment research related to different types of waste treatment practices, specifically but not limited to stationary combustion sources. Areas of interest include investigations into fate and transport of pollutants through the environment, defining study populations, designing exposure scenarios, human subpopulations (e.g., various age groups, behavioral activities, and pre-existing medial factors), cumulative risk, and probabilistic uncertainty analysis, applicability of using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Pollutants from stack emissions and other source classes can be incorporated into soil or water and can accumulate in the terrestrial or aquatic food chains. Humans are exposed to these pollutants by various routes of exposure (i.e., dermal, oral and inhalation) and types of media (i.e., soil, air, surface and ground water, sediment) and through the food chain (i.e., ingestion of foods grown in the contaminated soil or water). The intent is to develop a two-year cooperative agreement on any or all of the announced research areas of interest with the primary purpose of supporting or stimulating human health risk assessment in exposure assessment research. NCEA-Cin scientists will collaborate in the research by providing information on multiple pathway assessment and by participating in authorship of research publications. Pre-proposals must not exceed 10 pages and will be thoroughly reviewed and evaluated by a technical evaluation panel of scientists. Successful preproposals will be invited to submit a competitive cooperative agreement application including a full and detailed project proposal for funding consideration. Depending on funding availability, the awards are estimated to range from $25,000 to $100,000 over two years. Interested applicants must be eligible to receive Federal Assistance under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended; Clean Air Act, as amended; Clean Water Act, as amended; and CERCLA, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 30-General Regulation for Assistance Programs, and Part 40-Research and Demonstration Grants. ONLY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, NONPROFIT RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, INDIVIDUALS, OR NONPROFIT RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE FEDERAL ASSISTANCE UNDER THESE ACTS SHOULD SUBMIT A REQUEST for a preproposal. Proposals from other Federal Agencies are not solicited and will not be accepted. Interesed parties may obtain a copy of Solicitation #NCEA-CIN-01 by contacting Donna Tucker, USEPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment -- Cincinnati Office, MS-117, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268, FAX: (513) 569-7475 postmarked no later than April 20, 1998. Oral requests will not be accepted. (0076)

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