Environmental Assessment
Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
September 26, 1997. The Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, which was mandated as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, was disbanded on August 31, 1997, with some staff work continuing into September. The reports and associated documents of the Commission are being made available on the NCEA web site. These documents include:
- Report
on the Accomplishments of the Commission on Risk Assessment
and Risk Management, by Gilbert S. Omenn, Commission
Chair
- [Report
on] Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
Symposium on a Public Health Approach to Environmental
Health Risk Management, 8 August 1997, Washington,
DC
- Commission
on Risk Assessment and Risk Management Memorandum Regarding
Tribal Risk Issues
Commission's Mandate & Membership
- Mandate of
the Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management.
- List of Commission
Members and Staff.
- Biographies
of Commission Members.
The Commission's Report & Supporting Documents
Volume 1 of Final Report. The full text of Volume 1 of the
final report of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk
Assessment and Risk Management, Framework for Environmental
Health Risk Management, is available in both HTML
and PDF (70 pp, 806 KB, about PDF)
formats. (The PDF version is a page-by-page replica of the printed
report.)
Volume 2 of Final Report. The full text of Volume 2 of the
final report of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk
Assessment and Risk Management, Risk Assessment and Risk Management
in Regulatory Decision-Making, is available in both HTML
and PDF (232 pp, 1,305 KB, about PDF) formats. (The PDF version is a page-by-page replica of the
printed report.)
Supporting Documents. Several reports were prepared
in support of the Commission's report:
- Cost Benefit Analysis
and Regulatory Reform
by Raymond Kopp, Alan Krupnick, and Michael Toman, Resources for the Future.
- Report to the Commission
on Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Health Risk Assessments
Prepared per the Risk Assessment Reforms Under Consideration
in the U.S. Congress
by Edmund A.C. Crouch, Richard R., Lester, Timothy L. Lash, Sarah R. Armstrong, and Laura C. Green, Cambridge Environmental Inc.
- A Survey of Methods
for Chemical Health Risk Assessment Among Federal Regulatory
Agencies
by Lorenz R. Rhomberg, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. - An Assessment of
the Risk Assessment Paradigm for Ecological Risk Assessment
by Menzie-Cura & Associates Inc. - Review of Noncancer
Risk Assessment: Application of Benchmark Dose Methods
by Elaine M. Faustman, University of Washington.