U -- COOPERATIVE TRAINING IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES RESEARCH

Notice Date

November 8, 2000

Contracting Office

Environmental Protection Agency, National Health Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (MD85), Research Triangle Park, NC 27711-0001

ZIP Code

27711-0001

Solicitation Number

NHEERL 01-01

Response Due

November 27, 2000

Point of Contact

Marg Mann. (919) 541-4896

E-Mail Address

COOPERATIVE TRAINING IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES RESEARCH (mann.margaret@epamail.epa.gov)

Description

U. 1. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) conducts mission-related research to better determine toxicological hazard, define dose-response relationships, and estimate human exposure characteristics in support of the Agency's overall risk assessment and guideline development. We are seeking to enter into a cooperative agreement(s) which will provide training opportunities for undergraduates, graduates, and postdoctoral fellows on-site at EPA's Research Triangle Park and/or Chapel Hill, North Carolina, facilities. The purpose of this assistance agreement is to identify and provide training for candidates in the environmental health sciences curriculum whose areas of interest coincide with areas of ongoing research at NHEERL (i.e., Neurotoxicology, Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology, Carcinogenesis, Pulmonary Toxicology, Developmental Toxicology, Reproductive Toxicology, Immunotoxicology, Environmental Epidemiology and Biostatistics/Modeling). EPA will have significant involvement in this project by providing scientific mentors and facilities for selected candidates. Because of this close collaboration between the EPA mentors, the trainees, and the institution, competition will be limited to institutions within a seventy-five (75) mile radius of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Proposals, which must be cleared through appropriate institutional review boards, will be evaluated by expert review panels. The review will be based on the proposer's approach for administering the project, cost estimates, staff qualifications, relevancy to the mission of the Agency, and anticipated collaboration with EPA. The total amount of EPA resources for this solicitation is expected to be $1,000,000 per year contingent upon availability of funds. The award (s) will be for a five (5) year period. We anticipate these funds will support one or more awards. This solicitation is subject to 40 CFR, Part 45 if the EPA grant regulations. In addition, the project will be subject to the general regulations (Part 31 for State, local and Indian tribal governments; Part 30 for other recipients). Profit-making organizations are ineligible to apply under the legislation authorizing EPA's assistance programs. Application material and technical instructions may be obtained from the Office of the Associate Director for Health, NHEERL, (MD-87), US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; telephone number (919) 541-2283; Fax number (919) 541-4201. Responses to this advertisement must be received by the close of business on Monday, November 27, 2000. EPA reserves the right not to make any awards from this solicitation.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20001113/USOL003.HTM (W-313 SN5062L5)