EPA, NAS Weigh Options For Congressionally Mandated IRIS Reviews

摘要

EPA staff and members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) board that will undertake the congressionally mandated reviews of up to three of EPA's chemical risk assessments are discussing which pending assessments to look at and whether one of the NAS reports could discuss a broader, scientific investigation of the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program's operations. At a Jan. 25 meeting of NAS' Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST), agency officials did not comment on a suggestion for the board to investigate underlying scientific issues with the IRIS program instead of reviewing one of the pending draft chemical assessments Congress sought.