[Federal Register: December 23, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 246)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Environmental Economics Research Strategy
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of availability of a final document.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is today
announcing the availability of its Environmental Economics Research
Strategy, EPA/600/R-04/195. The Environmental Economics Research
Strategy identifies and prioritizes environmental economics and
decision science research that will be conducted over the next several
years to improve the scientific foundation for EPA's decision-making
and policy initiatives.
ADDRESSES: A limited number of copies of the Environmental Economics
Research Strategy will be available from the National Service Center
for Environmental Publications. Request a copy by telephoning 1-800-
490-9198 or 513-489-8190 and providing the title and the EPA number for
the document, EPA/600/R-04/195. Internet users may download a copy from
the EPA's Office of Research and Development home page at http://www.epa.gov/ord/htm/documents/econresearch.pdf.
The strategy is also
available on EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics home
page at http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/webpages/homepage.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. William Wheeler, National Center
for Environmental Research (8722F), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, telephone:
202-343-9828; facsimile: 202-233-0678; E-mail: wheeler.william@epa.gov
or Dr. Brian Heninger, National Center for Environmental Economics
(1809T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, telephone: 202-566-2270; facsimile:
202-566-2338; E-mail: heninger.brian@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Environmental Economics Research
Strategy was developed to guide future environmental economics research
at the Agency. This research strategy outlines EPA's effort to provide
the necessary behavioral science foundation for making decisions and
designing environmental policies at the least cost to American
businesses and consumers. To be effective the Agency must understand
how people and firms make decisions about and affect the environment,
and, in turn, how the environment affects Americans' quality of life.
The environmental economics research described in this strategy will
become a cornerstone of the economic analyses that EPA needs to develop
environmental policy.
The Environmental Economics Research Strategy was developed by a
team from the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) and
the National Center for Environmental
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Research (NCER) working with EPA program offices, the Office of
Research and Development (ORD) laboratories and centers, and EPA
regions. NCEE provides research support and economic guidance to EPA
programs, and NCER manages an economics and decision sciences research
grants program. The strategy identifies priorities and research gaps,
evaluates research tools, sets strategic research objectives, and
suggests responsibilities and sequences for conducting or sponsoring
research. EPA programs, other Federal agencies, academics, states,
local governments, and others can consult the strategy to understand
what EPA has planned and the results the Agency expects.
The Environmental Economics Research Strategy is in two volumes;
the first volume is the strategy itself outlined in four chapters, and
the second volume contains seven appendices. Chapter 1 explains the
background for developing the strategy. Chapter 2 reports the main
findings from the needs assessment survey and workshop. Chapter 3
describes how EPA evaluated the remaining gaps in the research
literature in priority economic research areas and developed strategic
research goals to implement. Chapter 4 describes the research tools or
approaches available to implement the strategy and how EPA plans to use
these tools to generate and communicate needed research results. The
appendices provide more detail on the needs assessment process and
results, discuss the relationship of the strategy to other documents,
compare the advantages of different research tools available to EPA,
and present the external peer review comments and responses.
This Environmental Economics Research Strategy was subjected to
external peer review by the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee
of EPA's Science Advisory Board. The final strategy reflects the
comments of both internal and external review.
Dated: December 19, 2005.
George Gray,
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
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