This Web site is designed to meet a requirement in the Office of Management and Budget Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review (PDF) (45pp, 263K, About PDF). Exit that all federal agencies post on their Web sites a Peer Review Agenda that includes all planned and ongoing "influential scientific information" subject to the Bulletin's peer review requirements. The peer review information provided on each record is described as a "Peer Review Plan." The public can use the links below to comment on the Peer Review Plan. The Bulletin also requires federal agencies to provide OMB with an Annual Report listing the peer review completed in that Fiscal Year. For more information about EPA's Peer Review Policies and Practices please see the EPA Peer Review Handbook.

Bulletin Definitions

• Scientific Assessment: A scientific assessment is an evaluation of a body of scientific or technical knowledge that typically synthesizes multiple factual inputs, data, models, assumptions, and/or applies best professional judgment to bridge uncertainties in the available information.
• Influential Scientific Information: The Bulletin defines "influential scientific information" as "scientific information the agency reasonably can determine will have or does have a clear and substantial impact on important public policies or private sector decisions."
• Highly Influential Scientific Assessment: The Bulletin considers a "scientific assessment" to be "highly influential" if the agency or the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator determines that the dissemination could have a potential impact of more than $500 million in any one year on either the public or private sector or that the dissemination is novel, controversial, or precedent-setting, or has significant interagency interest.

Office of Air and Radiation

• EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual (PUBLISHED REPORT)
• EPA Technical Report for Aircraft Engine Non-Volatile Particulate Matter Emissions Inventory and Stringency Analysis (PUBLISHED REPORT)
• Peer Review of EPA's OMEGA (Optimization Model for Reducing Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Automobiles) (DATA/SOFTWARE)
• Peer Review of Electric Vehicle Simulations within EPA's ALPHA (Advanced Light-Duty Powertrain and Hybrid Analysis) Model (DATA/SOFTWARE)
• Review of Reduced Form Tools Evaluation (INTERNAL REPORT)

• National-scale Assessment of Air Toxics Risks (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)

Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

• Approach for Estimating Exposures and Incremental Health Effects from Lead During Renovation, Repair, and Painting Activities in Public and Commercial Buildings (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Approaches for Quantitative Use of Surface Water Monitoring Data in Pesticide Drinking Water Assessments (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Draft Risk Evaluation of Perchloroethylene (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• EPA Draft Risk Evaluation for Carbon Tetrachloride (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• EPA Draft Risk Evaluation of Asbestos (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for Methylene Chloride (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for NMP (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for Trichloroethylene (TCE) (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• TSCA Work Plan Chemical Risk Assessment: 1-Bromopropane (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• The use of new approach methodologies (NAMs) to derive extrapolation factors and evaluate developmental neurotoxicity for human health risk assessment (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)

Office of Policy

• Report on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: Estimates Incorporating Recent Scientific Advances (PUBLISHED REPORT)

Office of Research and Development

• IRIS Toxicological Review of Chloroform (Inhalation) (Peer Review Draft) (IRIS ASSESSMENT)
• IRIS Toxicological Review of Perfluorodecanoic Acid (PFDA) (Peer Review Draft) (IRIS ASSESSMENT)
• IRIS Toxicological Review of Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) and Related Salts (Public Comment and External Review Draft) (IRIS ASSESSMENT)
• IRIS Toxicological Review of Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA) (External Review Draft) (IRIS ASSESSMENT)
• Linking Nutrients to Alterations in Aquatic Life in California Wadeable Streams (PUBLISHED REPORT)

Office of Water

• An Approach For Applying The Methodology From EPA’s 2012 Recreational Water Quality Criteria Recommendation To Non-Primary Contact Exposure Scenarios. (UNPUBLISHED REPORT)
• ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE LONGTERM 2 ENHANCED SURFACE WATER TREATMENT RULE (LT2ESWTR) (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Health Effects Document for PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic Acid) (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Health Effects Document for Perfluroroctane Sulfonate (PFOS) (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Hydrologic and Water Quality System (HAWQS) (DATA/SOFTWARE)

Office of Air and Radiation

• Integrated Review Plan for the Review of the Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards (PUBLISHED REPORT)
• NO2 NAAQS Review: Policy Assessment (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• NOx SOx Secondary NAAQS: Integrated Review Plan - CASAC Advisory (SUMMARY)
• Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Primary NAAQS REVIEW: Integrated Review Plan (SUMMARY)
• Oxides of Nitrogen, Oxides of Sulfur, and Particulate Matter Policy Assessment for the Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Policy Assessment Updates for the Reconsideration of the Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Particulate Matter, Review Draft (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Policy Assessment for the Reconsideration of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards, External Review Draft (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Policy Assessment for the Review of the Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Oxides, External Review Draft (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Review of the Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Oxides: Risk and Exposure Assessment (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Review of the Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Nitrogen Dioxide: Risk and Exposure Assessment Planning Document (PUBLISHED REPORT)
• Review of the Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfur Oxides and Particulate Matter: Risk and Exposure Assessment Planning Document (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Screening Methodologies to Support Risk and Technology Reviews (RTR): A Case Study Analysis (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Primary NAAQS Review: Integrated Review Plan - Advisory with CASAC (SUMMARY)

Office of Research and Development

• Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• IRIS Toxicological Review of Formaldehyde (Inhalation) (Peer Review Draft) (IRIS ASSESSMENT)
• IRIS Toxicological Review of Hexavalent Chromium (Peer Review Draft) (IRIS ASSESSMENT)
• IRIS Toxicological Review of Inorganic Arsenic (Public Comment and External Review Draft) (IRIS ASSESSMENT)
• Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) for Lead (Pb) (External Review Draft) (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)

Office of Water

• MATERIALS SUPPORTING THE NEW RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITY CRITERIA FOR PATHOGENS (PUBLISHED REPORT)
• Peer Review for EPA’s Biologically Based Dose-Response (BBDR) Model for Perchlorate (CRITERIA DOCUMENT)
• Peer Review for EPA’s Proposed Approaches to Inform the Derivation of a Maximum Contaminant Level Goal for Perchlorate in Drinking Water (PUBLISHED REPORT)
• Peer Review of Report Modeling the Relationship Between Lead in Drinking Water and Blood Lead Levels in Children (ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT)
• Stated Preference Survey Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Reduced Fish Losses Due to Cooling Water Intake Structures (DATA/SOFTWARE)