[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 9, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6863-6864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2519]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7870-7]


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: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-9767; (2) Computational 
Toxicology: Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center, e-mail: 
[email protected], telephone: 202-343-9616; (3) Environmental 
Behavior & Decisionmaking: Benefits of Information Disclosure/
Provision, e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-9807; (4) 
Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Human Health, e-mail: 
[email protected], telephone: 202-343-9748; (5) Climate Change and 
Public Health Decision Making, e-mail: [email protected], 
telephone: 202-343-9748; (6) Exposure Measurement Tools for Endocrine 
Disrupting Chemicals in Mixtures, e-mail: [email protected], 
telephone: 202-343-9617; (7) Continuous Measurement Methods for 
Particulate Matter, e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-
9748; (8) Development and Evaluation of Innovative Approaches for the 
Quantitative Assessment of Pathogens in Drinking Water, e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-9693; (9) Novel Biologically-
based Public Health Indicators, e-mail: [email protected], 
telephone: 202-343-9697; (10) Allergenicity of Genetically Modified 
Foods, e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-9697; (11) 
Valuation for Environmental Policy, e-mail: [email protected], 
telephone: 202-564-6842; (12) Implications of Tropospheric Air 
Pollution for Surface UV Exposures, e-mail: [email protected], 
telephone: 202-343-9748; (13) Nonlinear Responses to Global Change in 
Linked Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems, e-mail: 
[email protected], telephone: 202-343-9766; (14) Ecology

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and Oceanology of Hazardous Algal Blooms (with NOAA, NSF, ONR and 
NASA), e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-9843; (15) 
Development of Predictive Toxicogenomics Approaches with Computational 
Toxicology, e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-9616; (16) 
Market Mechanisms and Incentives: Methods for New Markets; Experimental 
Markets, e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-9807; (17) 
Lifestyle and Cultural Practices of Tribal Populations and Risks from 
Toxic Substances in the Environment, e-mail: [email protected], 
telephone: 202-343-9767; (18) Integration of Biomarkers and PBPK & PBPD 
Modeling, e-mail: [email protected], telephone: 202-343-3124; (19) 
STAR Graduate Fellowships, e-mail: [email protected], 
telephone: 202-343-9737; (20) GRO Graduate & Undergraduate Fellowships, 
e-mail: [email protected], 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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