Reducing Risk: The Report of the Ecology and Welfare Subcommittee. Relative RiskReduction Project. Part 2, Appendix A

摘要

The Ecology and Welfare Subcommittee of the Relative Risk Reduction StrategiesCommittee (RRRSC) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board (SAB) reviewed the ecological and welfare components of the Agency's 1987 report entitled 'Unfinished Business: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Problems'. The Subcommittee was critical of the original EPA ranking of environmental problem areas that mixed sources, receptors, media, and specific regulatory obligations. The Subcommittee developed six major recommendations which are to: (a) formalize an extramural and continuous process for ecological risk prioritization; (b) invest in development of formal methodologies for ecological risk assessment; (c) develop the data bases needed for improving future ecological risk assessments; (d) develop an appropriate methodology for integrating ecological and economic time dimensions; (e) EPA should give more consideration to non-economic aspects of ecological values; and (f) consider the results from this risk ranking process, including the 1990 risk reduction study, in development of future Agency policy and in allocation of financial resources.