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A compendium of documents related to the Council for Regulatory
Environmental Modeling
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Organizational Documents |
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"Council for
Regulatory Environmental Modeling," February 7, 2003. (PDF 82 KB, 2 pages,
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Administrator memorandum discussing her expectations for the CREM. |
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"Regional Participation in the CREM," January 29, 2003. (PDF 84 KB, 2 pages,
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Region 4 Deputy Regional Administrator encouraging regional participation in CREM activities. |
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"Strengthening
Science at the Environmental Protection Agency," May 30,
2002. Administrator memorandum establishing an EPA
Science Advisor and enumerating the CREM as a priority item
to strengthen the basis for science-based decision-making. |
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Memorandum from
Science Advisor regarding CREM re-structuring. May 23, 2002.
(PDF 136 KB, 3 pages,
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Science Advisor memorandum establishing re-structuring of
the CREM. |
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"Framework for the
Council on Regulatory Environmental Modeling," February
23, 2000. Administrator memorandum that first
established the CREM. |
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White Papers and Draft Reports |
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CREM Draft Guidance for Environmental Models, November 2003.
(PDF 1.29 MB, 60 pages,
info about PDF) Prepared by EPA's Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling
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Proposed Agency Strategy for the Development of Guidance on
Recommended Practices in Environmental Modeling,
June 2001.
(PDF 331 KB, 37 pages,
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Prepared by the CREM Model Evaluation Action
Team. |
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Quality
Assurance of Environmental Models, April 2000.
(PDF 200 KB, 69 pages,
info about PDF) Report of a workshop on the quality assurance of
environmental models. |
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White Paper on the Nature and Scope of Issues on Adoption of
Model Use Acceptability Guidance, May 1999. (PDF 1.26 MB, 80 pages,
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Options
paper submitted to EPA's
Science Policy
Council to establish a cross-Agency approach to model
evaluation. |
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Model Validation for Predictive Exposure Assessments, July
1994. (PDF 302 KB, 52 pages,
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Developed under the auspices of EPA's
Risk
Assessment Forum to propose procedures for evaluating
models for exposure assessments. |
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Guidance |
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Guidance for Quality Assurance Project Plans for Modeling,
December 2002. (PDF 616 KB, 112 pages,
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This document contains advice and recommendations on how to develop a Quality
Assurance Project Plan for projects involving the model development or application
using data acquired from other sources. It is one of the U.S. EPA Quality System
Series documents that describe the EPA policies and procedures for planning, implementing,
and assessing the effectiveness of the Quality System. |
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EPA
Information Quality Guidelines,
October 2002. (PDF 528 KB, 60 pages,
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Developed in
response to guidelines issued by the Office of Management
and Budget, the
Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality,
Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information
Disseminated by the Environmental Protection Agency
contain EPA’s policy and procedural guidance for ensuring
and maximizing the quality of information we disseminate.
The Guidelines also outline administrative mechanisms for
EPA pre-dissemination review of information products and
describe some new mechanisms to enable affected persons to
seek and obtain corrections from EPA regarding disseminated
information that they believe does not comply with EPA or
OMB guidelines. |
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Peer Review Policy for Models, July 1994.
(PDF 302 KB, 52 pages,
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The purpose of this guidance is to provide a resource for those program managers
responsible for implementing the peer review process. More specifically, this guidance
is provided as an aid in evaluating the need and, where appropriate, conducting
external peer review related to the development and/or application of
environmental regulatory modeling. |
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Science Advisory Reports |
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Advisory on the "White Paper on the Nature and Scope
of Issues on Adoption of Model Use Acceptability Criteria,"
July 1999 (PDF 110 KB, 28 pages,
info about PDF)(see white
paper) (PDF 1.26 MB, 80 pages,
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Advisory on the Charter for the Council on Regulatory
Environmental Modeling (CREM), June 1999. (PDF 26 KB, 12 pages,
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Commentary on Appropriateness of SAB Reviews of
Computer Environmental Transport and Fate Models
Developed for Regulatory Decisionmaking, September 1995. (PDF 27 KB, 6 pages,
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Commentary on Bioaccumulation Modeling Issues,
September 1995. (PDF 43 KB, 10 pages,
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Review of Composite Model for
Leachate Migration with Transformation Products -- EPACMTP,
August 1995. (PDF 244 KB, 24 pages,
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Review of MMSOILS Component of the
Proposed Regulatory Impact Analysis for the RCRA Corrective
Action Rule, November 1993. (PDF 285 KB, 51 pages,
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Review of Draft Agency
Guidance for Conducting External Peer Review of
Environmental Regulatory Modeling, June 1993. (PDF 47 KB, 12 pages,
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Review of OSWER's draft report,
"Report on the Usage of Computer Models in Hazardous
Waste/Superfund Programs," September 1991. (PDF 53 KB, 13 pages,
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Review of the Combined
Analytical-Numerical Saturated Zone (CANSAZ) Flow and
Transport Model for use in EPA's Composite Model for Surface
Impoundments, March 1990. (PDF 110 KB, 34 pages,
info about PDF)
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Resolution on the use
of mathematical modeling for regulatory assessment and
decision-making, January 1989. (PDF 44 KB, 10 pages,
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Review of the Unsaturated Zone Code
(FECTUZ) for the Office of Solid Waste's Fate and Transport Model, July
1988. (PDF 93 KB, 24 pages,
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Review of the Underground Storage Tank
Release Simulation Model, April 1988. (PDF 87 KB, 20 pages,
info about PDF)
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Review of Research in
support of Extrapolation Models, May 1987. (PDF 147 KB, 53 pages,
info about PDF)
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