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Main Title

Unfinished business : a comparative assessment of environmental problems : volume I, overview report /

CORP Author

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Policy Analysis.

Publisher

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis, Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation,

Year Published

1987

Report Number

EPA-230/2-87-025a

Stock Number

PB88-127048

OCLC Number

15296463

Subjects

Environmental policy ; Environmental protection

Additional Subjects

Environmental policy ; Environmental surveys ; Comparison ; Assessments ; Environmental impacts ; Ecology ; Risk assessments ; Environmental Protection Agency

Internet Access

Description	Access URL
	https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=2000BZOP.PDF
	https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=2001635G.PDF

Holdings

Library	Call Number	Additional Info	Location	Last Modified
EIAD	EPA/230/2-87/025a		Region 2 Library/New York,NY	12/14/1990
ELBD ARCHIVE	EPA 230-2-87-025a	Received from HQ	AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH	10/04/2023
ELBD RPS	EPA 230-2-87-025a	repository copy	AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH	09/29/2015
ERAD	EPA 230/2-87-025a	2 COPIES	Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA	04/01/1994
ESAD	EPA 230-2-87-025 a		Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA	01/30/2004
NTIS	PB88-127048	Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown.		07/26/2022

Collation

100 pages ; 28 cm

Abstract

Since 1970 the Nation has done much to abate the most visible forms of pollution, but there is still much unfinished business. New problems have also been 'discovered' or have risen in importance. Many of these new problems are difficult to evaluate; many involve toxic chemicals that can cause cancer or birth defects at levels of exposure that are hard to detect; and many involve persistent contaminants that can move from one environment medium to another, causing further damage even after controls have been applied for one medium. The complexity and gravity of these issues make it particularly important that EPA apply its finite resources where they will have the greatest effect. Thus, the Administrator of EPA commissioned a special task force of senior career managers and technical experts to assist him and other policy makers in the task. The assignment was to compare the risks currently associated with major environmental problems. In conducting the project, the universe of environmental problems was divided into 31 pieces. Four different types of risks were considered for each problem area. Each risk was analyzed and the findings published in separate volumes as: Appendix I - Report of the Cancer Risk Work Group; Appendix II - Non-Cancer Risk Work Group; Appendix III - Ecological Risk Work Group; Appendix IV - Welfare Risk Work Group.

Notes

"February 1987."

Contents Notes

v. 1 Overview.

Place Published

Washington, D.C.

Supplementary Notes