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ORD BBS- USER'S MANUAL V 2.0
Citation:
ORD BBS- USER'S MANUAL V 2.0. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/M-91/050.
Description:
EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) has created the ORD Electronic Bulletin Board System (BBS) to foster communication and technology transfer among EPA staff, state and local officials and staff, researchers, and the private sector. The BBS can be used to leave and read messages, upload and download files, and serves as a means of announcing RD activities. A special feature of the ORD BBS is a text searchable database of every ORD publication produced since 1976, over 17,000 citations. Each citation contains publication title, authors, sponsoring organization, abstract, ordering information, and much more. The ORD BBS is open to all and operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. here s no subscription charge. To access the ORD BBS you will need a computer, modem, phone line, and a communications program. The ORD BBS presently features 5 areas of special interest ("Conferences"): ) Expert Systems - a forum providing support, distribution, updates, and discussion of ORD's expert systems; 2) Biotechnology - a forum for discussion of biotechnical approaches to pollution control; 3) Water - a forum for exchanging information on EPA's Office of Water's regulatory agenda and ORD's water esearch activities; ) egional Operations - primarily intended for EPA Regional Highlights, but open to anyone to further the exchange of technical support among ORD and the Regions; and ) Methods Standardization/QA News - a forum for the exchange of nformation from EPA Program Offices, Regions, State Agencies, and the private sector on monitoring methods and Quality Assurance techniques. For more information about the BBS call 513-569-7272.