[Federal Register: February 9, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 26)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Investigator Initiated Grants: Request for Applications
AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of Requests for Applications.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides information on the availability of fiscal
year 2005 investigator initiated grants program announcements, in which
the areas of research interest, eligibility and submission
requirements, evaluation criteria, and implementation schedules are set
forth. Grants will be competitively awarded following peer review.
DATES: Receipt dates vary depending on the specific research areas
within the solicitations.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In its Requests for Applications (RFA) the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites research applications in
the following areas of special interest to its mission: (1) Early
Indicators of Environmentally-Induced Disease, (2) Computational
Toxicology: Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center, (3)
Environmental Behavior & Decisionmaking: Benefits of Information
Disclosure/Provision, (4) Impact of Climate Change and Variability on
Human Health, (5) Climate Change and Public Health Decision Making, (6)
Exposure Measurement Tools for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in
Mixtures, (7) Continuous Measurement Methods for Particulate Matter,
(8) Development and Evaluation of Innovative Approaches for the
Quantitative Assessment of Pathogens in Drinking Water, (9) Novel
Biologically-based Public Health Indicators, (10) Allergenicity of
Genetically Modified foods, (11) Valuation for Environmental Policy,
(12) Implications of Tropospheric Air Pollution for Surface UV
Exposures, (13) Nonlinear Responses to Global Change in Linked Aquatic
and Terrestrial Ecosystems, (14) Ecology and Oceanology of Hazardous
Algal Blooms (with NOAA, NSF, ONR and NASA), (15) Development of
Predictive Toxicogenomics Approaches with Computational Toxicology,
(16) Market Mechanisms and Incentives: Methods for New Markets;
Experimental Markets, (17) Lifestyle and Cultural Practices of Tribal
Populations and Risks from Toxic Substances in the Environment, (18)
Integration of Biomarkers and PBPK & PBPD Modeling, (19) STAR Graduate
Fellowships, (20) GRO Graduate & Undergraduate Fellowships.
Contacts: (1) Early Indicators of Environmentally-Induced Disease, e-
mail: fields.nigel@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9767; (2) Computational
Toxicology: Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center, e-mail:
mustra.david@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9616; (3) Environmental
Behavior & Decisionmaking: Benefits of Information Disclosure/
Provision, e-mail: clark.matthew@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9807; (4)
Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Human Health, e-mail:
winner.darrell@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9748; (5) Climate Change and
Public Health Decision Making, e-mail: winner.darrell@epa.gov,
telephone: 202-343-9748; (6) Exposure Measurement Tools for Endocrine
Disrupting Chemicals in Mixtures, e-mail: laessig.susan@epa.gov,
telephone: 202-343-9617; (7) Continuous Measurement Methods for
Particulate Matter, e-mail: winner.darrell@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-
9748; (8) Development and Evaluation of Innovative Approaches for the
Quantitative Assessment of Pathogens in Drinking Water, e-mail:
nolt-helms.cynthia@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9693; (9) Novel Biologically-
based Public Health Indicators, e-mail: turner.vivian@epa.gov,
telephone: 202-343-9697; (10) Allergenicity of Genetically Modified
Foods, e-mail: turner.vivian@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9697; (11)
Valuation for Environmental Policy, e-mail: wheeler.william@epa.gov,
telephone: 202-564-6842; (12) Implications of Tropospheric Air
Pollution for Surface UV Exposures, e-mail: winner.darrell@epa.gov,
telephone: 202-343-9748; (13) Nonlinear Responses to Global Change in
Linked Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems, e-mail:
smith.bernicel@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9766; (14) Ecology
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and Oceanology of Hazardous Algal Blooms (with NOAA, NSF, ONR and
NASA), e-mail: perovich.gina@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9843; (15)
Development of Predictive Toxicogenomics Approaches with Computational
Toxicology, e-mail: mustra.david@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9616; (16)
Market Mechanisms and Incentives: Methods for New Markets; Experimental
Markets, e-mail: clark.matthew@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9807; (17)
Lifestyle and Cultural Practices of Tribal Populations and Risks from
Toxic Substances in the Environment, e-mail: fields.nigel@epa.gov,
telephone: 202-343-9767; (18) Integration of Biomarkers and PBPK & PBPD
Modeling, e-mail: saint.chris@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-3124; (19)
STAR Graduate Fellowships, e-mail: willett.stephanie@epa.gov,
telephone: 202-343-9737; (20) GRO Graduate & Undergraduate Fellowships,
e-mail: willett.stephanie@epa.gov, telephone: 202-343-9737.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The complete program announcement can
be accessed on the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/ncer, under
``announcements.'' The required forms for applications with
instructions are accessible on the Internet at http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/forms/downlf.html.
Forms may be printed from this site.
Dated: February 1, 2005.
Jack Puzak,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Research.
[FR Doc. 05-2519 Filed 2-8-05; 8:45 am]
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