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Official EPA Risk Assessment Forum
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Purpose and Objectives
The Risk Assessment Forum is a standing committee of senior
EPA scientists. The Forum was established to promote Agency-wide
consensus on difficult and controversial risk assessment
issues and to ensure that this consensus is incorporated
into appropriate Agency risk assessment guidance. To fulfill
this purpose, the Forum assembles Agency risk assessment
experts in a formal process to study and report on issues
from an Agency-wide scientific perspective. Major Forum guidance
documents are developed in accordance with the Agency's regulatory
and policy development process and become Agency policy upon
approval by the Administrator or the Deputy Administrator.
Risk Assessment Forum products include: risk assessment guidelines,
technical panel reports on special risk assessment issues,
and peer consultation and peer review workshops addressing
controversial risk assessment topics.
The Forum focuses on generic issues fundamental to the risk
assessment process and related science policy issues. Forum
consensus building activities may include: developing science
policy on technical issues, definitive risk assessment guidance,
and risk assessment methodology for use in ongoing and prospective
Agency actions; conducting scientific and technical analysis
upon which to base risk assessment positions; and sponsoring
colloquia and workshops to foster consensus on risk assessment
issues. The Forum does not provide peer review and quality
assurance of risk assessments developed by other EPA organizations
or review nonscientific risk management issues; however,
the Forum may undertake special projects at the request of
the Deputy Administrator (or delegatee).
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