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EPA REQUESTS APPLICATIONS FOR PARTICULATE MATTER RESEARCH CENTERS
Release Date: 05/22/98
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1998
EPA REQUESTS APPLICATIONS FOR PARTICULATE
MATTER RESEARCH CENTERS
EPA’s Office of Research and Development is requesting grant applications under its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program to establish about five Airborne Particulate Matter (PM) Research Centers. EPA is funding about $8 million for the centers to address priority research needs in areas such as exposure, dosimetry and extrapolation modeling, epidemiology, and toxicology. The centers will advance scientific understanding of the health effects of particulate matter through such research as identifying which constituents or properties of PM are most responsible for health effects. The centers will also study how particles cause biologic effects, improving assessments of personal exposures to PM in normal and susceptible populations, and developing new models of the doses of PM that are deposited in the lungs of exposed individuals. Eligible applicants include state, local and tribal governments, universities and not-for-profit organizations. EPA is encouraging applicants to make use of EPA’s new PM2.5 monitoring network and other research programs in developing their proposals. Copies of the application can be obtained from the Internet at: https://www.epa.gov/ncerqa. Applications must be received by EPA on Oct. 28. For more information, contact Deran Pashayan at 202-564-6913.
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