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Additional Resources

Superfund Research Program

The following links are to web pages that provide additional resources for potential applicants to the Superfund Research Program. It may be helpful to consider these web sites in preparing a SRP P42 application.

• Priority Chemicals - CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances (ATSDR)  This is a list of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) priority hazardous substances, i.e. a list, in order of priority, of substances that are most commonly found at facilities on the National Priorities List (NPL) and which are determined to pose the most significant potential threat to human health due to their known or suspected toxicity and potential for human exposure at these NPL sites.
• EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) Research Frameworks   Working with partners and external stakeholders, EPA developed research frameworks in six priority areas that address the greatest needs of the nation for advancements in environmental research. The strategic research plans will be fully implemented in October 2011 after peer review. The following plans are suggested for understanding priorities relevant to Superfund (Contaminated Sites):
  • Chemical Safety for Sustainability   
  • Human Health Risk Assessment   
  • Sustainable and Healthy Communities  
• EPA Clean-Up Information (Clu-In) Issue Areas  CLU-IN Issue Areas draw upon existing resources from the EPA CLU-IN Web site, other sources of information, and updates from federal cleanup programs, state sources, universities, nonprofit organizations, peer-reviewed publications, and public-private partnerships.
• research Needs - ATSDR Unfilled Research Needs  The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) congressionally mandated Substance-Specific Applied Research Program (SSARP) consists of a research agenda for priority hazardous substances. In establishing the SSARP, ATSDR first identifies data needs in its Toxicological Profiles for these substances.  Those research needs are included here.
• Cleanups in My Community  can be used to map and list areas where pollution is being or has been cleaned up throughout the United States.  Sites listed here include facilities and properties under EPA's Superfund, RCRA and/or Brownfields cleanup programs as well as Federal facilities under EPA's Superfund and/or RCRA cleanup programs.
• Science and Decisions  Advancing Risk Assessment, NRC 2009. In this report, the Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA conducts a scientific and technical review of EPA’s current risk-analysis concepts and practices and offers recommendations for practical improvements that EPA could make in the near term (2-5 y) and in the longer term (10-20 y). The committee focused on human health risk assessment but considered the implications of its conclusions and recommendations for ecologic risk assessment.