Water Quality Information Center Bibliographies

These bibliographies contain citations from AGRICOLA, the National Agricultural Library's bibliographic database.

• Risk Assessment and Communcation Related to Water Resources I, 137 citations, covers January 1985-December, 1993

• Risk Assessment and Communcation Related to Water Resources II, 64 citations, covers 1988-December, 1995.

Risk Assessment Sites

• Environmental Risk Analysis: A Review of Public Policy Issues was produced by the Congressional Research Service in July, 1998. The report summarizes and reviews current legislative action and policy options on risk analysis and risk mangement.

• Ecological Risk Analysis: Guidance, Tools, and Applications
  Environmental Sciences Division and Health Sciences Research Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Contains information for conducting ecological screening and baseline risk assessments.

• Ecological Risk Assessment Advisory Group
  Information on the topic from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).

• National Agricultural Risk Education Library is a collection of resources covering financial risk, production risk, risk education, legal risk and related topics. The Environmental Liability section includes research on nutrient management, runoff, environmental risk assessment, and other data.

• Risk Related Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
  This site discusses LBNL's research in using scientific knowledge to develop more effective risk management strategies for solving environmental problems. Areas of research include: human risk assessment, wetland restoration and sediment quality and integrated risk-based environmental cleanup.

• Science, Risk Analysis and Environmental Policy Decisions
  This paper is written under the United Nations Environment Programme. It discusses the shaping of environmental policy, the shortcomings of scientific information in this field and the development of environmental risk assessment tools to assist the process.

Environmental Protection Agency

• Clean Water Act Section 403: A Framework For Ecological Risk Assessment
  Section 403 calls for incorporating ecological risk assessment as part of the evaluation of the impacts of point source discharges on the marine environment. This document contains background information, and includes Section 403 requirements, Ocean Discharge Guidelines and Ecological Risk Assessment and the 403 Process.

• EPA's Contaminated Sediment Managment Strategy
  Outlines specific actions that EPA will take to reduce environmental and human health risks associated with contaminated sediment.

• Drinking Water Redirection Proposal
  Presents the reassessment of the Office of Water's drinking water protection program. Objectives include establishing high-priority activites to maximize risk reduction. Document describes the goals and objectives, the reassessment process and the next steps in redirecting the drinking water program.

• Water Quality Criteria and Standards Newsletter, January 1996
  Discusses risk assessment issues. Contents include colloquium on risk characterization, ammonia criteria, Whole Effluent Toxicity program.

EPA Offices:

These EPA Offices have information relating to the topic:

• Office of Water
  This site has its own browser for searching. The others link to the main EPA search browser.

• Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response

• Office of Research and Development

• Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances