التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
EPA Chemical Assessments: Process Reforms Offer the Potential to Address Key Problems |
| المؤلفون: |
United States. Government Accountability Office. |
| بيانات النشر: |
United States. Government Accountability Office. |
| سنة النشر: |
2009 |
| المجموعة: |
University of North Texas: UNT Digital Library |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Government accountability -- United States, natural resources and environment, epa chemical assessments, testimony |
| جغرافية الموضوع: |
United States |
| الوصف: |
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) contains EPA's scientific position on the potential human health effects of exposure to more than 540 chemicals. Toxicity assessments in the IRIS database constitute the first two critical steps of the risk assessment process, which in turn provides the foundation for risk management decisions. Thus, IRIS is a critical component of EPA's capacity to support scientifically sound environmental decisions, policies, and regulations. GAO's 2008 report on the IRIS program identified significant concerns that, coupled with the importance of the program, caused GAO to add EPA's processes for assessing and controlling toxic chemicals as a high-risk area in its January 2009 biennial status report on governmentwide high-risk areas requiring increased attention by executive agencies and Congress. This testimony discusses (1) the findings from GAO's March 2008 report Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA's Integrated Risk Information System and related testimonies and (2) GAO's preliminary evaluation of the revised IRIS assessment process EPA issued on May 21, 2009. For this testimony, GAO supplemented its prior audit work with a preliminary review of the new assessment process and some IRIS productivity data." |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
text |
| وصف الملف: |
Text |
| اللغة: |
English |
| Relation: |
rep-no: GAO-09-774T; local-cont-no: 122728; url: http://gao.gov/products/GAO-09-774T; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc291592/; ark: ark:/67531/metadc291592 |
| الاتاحة: |
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc291592/ |
| Rights: |
Public Domain |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.2DA360C1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |