The report deals with the concept of conducting a resident summer study session within EPA Headquarters for a small interdisciplinary group of graduate and undergraduate students. The students, composing five investigative teams, concentrated their efforts on a possible approach toward quantifying the concept of quality-of-life; development of an accounting system for allocating pollution produced by industry as a result of consumer demands for goods and services; determining the effects of leisure on outdoor recreation and the environment; investigating the realm of environmental management; and, how the generation of pollution differs as a characteristic of a community's location within large metropolitan areas.