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products, and services that are sustainable and safer for public health and the
environment.
Organizational collaborations, within EPA's Office of Research and
Development (ORD) and among EPA offices, other agencies, and other domes-
tic and foreign institutions that could facilitate EPA's ability to anticipate, iden-
tify, and respond to new environmental challenges.
New informatics approaches to collecting, storing, and sharing data;
new techniques of measurement, computation, modeling, monitoring, and analy-
sis; and new methods of synthesizing and integrating information across disci-
plines.
New methods to measure the costs and benefits of environmental regu-
lation and to anticipate future risk, the perception of that risk (especially before
it is well understood), and the response to that risk.
Improvements to, or further development of, decision-support tools to
assist in evaluation of regulatory alternatives, taking into account relevant regu-
latory decision-making goals and relevant physical, chemical, biological, engi-
neering, and social sciences.
Approaches to more effectively deal with the inherent tensions among
research, risk assessment, and regulatory timeframes.
Scientific tools and analytic frameworks, including systems-based,
trans-disciplinary, and community-based approaches, to address future regula-
tory challenges, including examples of potential applications of these tools.
EPA's scientific capabilities (from both a financial and human resource
perspective) to successfully deal with the future.
Other sources of scientific information external to the agency.
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