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ASSESSING PROGRAM NEEDS FOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH (PNIER)
Impact/Purpose:
The Indoor Environments Division, together with other EPA offices with program responsibilities related to indoor environmental quality, will use this "living" document when making decisions on research issues.
Description:
"Program Needs for Indoor Environments Research" (PNIER), EPA 402-B-05-001 www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/pnier.pdf, is intended to be a "living" document that captures the indoor environments research needs for all EPA offices with program responsibilities related to indoor environmental quality. The effort is designed to provide for strong and ongoing collaboration with other EPA offices. The document will serve several purposes, including: 1) articulating EPA's indoor environments research needs and priorities, for both internal and external uses, 2) identifying where knowledge gaps exist, 3) helping to establish a more well-defined presence for an indoor environments research program at EPA, 4) facilitating collaboration between EPA program offices and research offices when developing research agendas and awarding research grants, and 5) fulfilling EPA's Healthy Buildings, Healthy People (HBHP) initiative, which calls for the development of a high-level, cross-Agency indoor environments research strategy. PNIER could serve as EPA's foundation towards this larger cross-agency research strategy, and could influence research performed by others.