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ENVnONMENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 



$ Millions 



80 81 62 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 



Year 



Figure A1. EPA Office of Research and Development FY 1980-1992 

 Funding. (Source: R. Gorman, Sut)Committee on the Environment, Committee 

 on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives.) 



spond to EPA's functional areas of research. ORD's four research strategy committees— 

 air, water, pesticides and toxic substances, and solid waste and emergency response 

 (Supctfund)— provide overall coordination and set priorities for research. The ORO 

 program focuses on the following environmental media: air and radiation, water 

 quality, drinking water, pesticides and toxic substances, multimedia, hazardous waste, 

 and Superfund. This research program includes special emphasis on global climate 

 change, assessing environmental risks, and pollution prevention. 



Within ORD, the Office of Exploratory Research (OER) coordinates a small 

 extramural program in basic, long-term research. OER is in general responsible for 

 informing the national academic research community about the current research 

 challenges facing the EPA, and it backs up this mission with a research grants pio- 

 gram and a research centers program. OER's research grants program funds indi- 



