Federal Programs from Agency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry
Health Program for Toxic Substances and Disease RegistryAgency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry
To work closely with State, local, and other Federal agencies to reduce or eliminate illness, disability, and death resulting from exposure of the public and workers to toxic substances at spill and w...
more Capacity Building Among American Indian TribesAgency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry
To address the Tribal public health issues that result from hazardous substances in the environment by: 1) building Tribal environmental health capacity 2) addressing health issues from releases of ha...
more Surveillance of Hazardous Substance Emergency EventsAgency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry
To assist State health departments in developing a State-based surveillance system for monitoring hazardous substance emergency events. This surveillance system will allow the State health department ...
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To solicit scientific proposals designed to answer public health questions arising from situations commonly encountered at hazardous waste sites. The objective of this research program is to fill gaps...
more Great Lakes Human Health Effects ResearchAgency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry
To: (1) Build upon and amplify the results from past and on-going research in the Great Lakes basin; (2) develop information, databases and research methodology that will provide long-term benefit to ...
more State Capacity BuildingAgency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry
To fulfill the mandated objectives of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986, as...
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Melbourne social enterprise Who Gives A Crap sold nearly 3 million rolls of toilet paper in 2014/15 and gave half the proceeds to WaterAid Australia, but co-founder Simon Griffiths says the donation would have been less had the startup adopted a non-profit model when it launched two years ago.