EPA National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA)

Overview

EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) is a leader in the science of human health and ecological risk assessment, a robust scientific process used to determine how pollutants or other stressors may impact human health and the environment. The Center champions the development and use of health and ecological assessments by interacting with other agencies, the scientific community, industry, policy-makers, and the public. NCEA occupies a critical position in EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) between researchers in other parts of ORD and outside of EPA who are generating new findings and data and the regulators and decision-makers in EPA’s program and regional offices who must make decisions to protect public health and the environment.

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