"Chemicals In The Environment"
Announcement
Summer 1995
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains a wide range of environmental information. Some of this information tells us what chemicals and pollutants are released by industrial plants. Other information tells us about the health and environmental effects of chemicals. Still other information tells us what chemicals people may be exposed to.
EPA believes that it is in everyone's interest to make this information available to the public. "Public" here includes industry, state governments, community groups, environmental groups, and, of course, public citizens. Access to information is the best way to ensure everyone has the opportunity to evaluate and reduce environmental and health risks.
To make this information accessible, the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) within EPA provides a variety of information services and products. These include call-in hotlines, publications,videos, diskettes with data, CD-ROMs, and access to on-line databases.
This publication is one way for you to find out about EPA's information products related to chemicals. The first edition of "Chemicals in the Environment: Public Access Information" provides information on a number of major OPPT products and services that reflect the scope of our programs. We hope to reach a wide audience to let you know what information products are available, what they can do for you, and how to get them.
The articles included in the first issue cover such topics as EPA's New Chemicals Program (which describes how EPA evaluates newly discovered chemicals for possible health effects); information sources for lead and asbestos; the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI); the OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets; the Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse; and industry health and safety studies which are submitted to EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
The files are accessible on the EPA Gopher Server on the Internet (address: gopher.epa.gov) under:
EPA Offices and Regions/Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances/Toxic Substances/Chemicals in the Environment: Public Access Information.
Persons without Gopher access can retrieve the issue and its contents through anonymous ftp from EPA's FTP server (ftp.epa.gov). Log on the ftp server as anonymous. "Chemicals in the Environment: Public Access Information" can be found under the directory pub/gopher/cie. The entire issue (in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows format) is filed as pub/gopher/cie/summer95/issue01j.wpd. [IMPORTANT: If retrieving the entire file, please note that it is in BINARY format and is 800+ kbytes in size.] ASCII versions of the articles are located under pub/gopher/cie/summer95/articles. Use the mget command to retrieve all of the articles.
The files are also accessible through the Right-to-Know Network (RTK-NET). RTK NET can be accessed either by direct dial-up at:
(202) 234-8570 (8-N-1) or via the Internet
Telnet to rtk.net--login as "public"
"Chemicals in the Environment: Public Access Information" is presently located under:
Documents/Chemicals in the Environment: Public Access Information
For more information on RTK NET, call OMB Watch at (202) 234- 8494.
Paper copies of "Chemicals in the Environment" are available from the following OPPT information services:
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Phone-(202) 554-1404 Assistance Information Service Hotline TDD-(202) 554-0551 Fax-(202) 554-5603
The Emergency Planning and Community Phone-(800) 535-0202 Right to Know Act (EPCRA) and or Superfund Hotline Local (703) 412-9877
We would like to know if this publication is helpful to you. Please direct your comments or questions to the editor, Randall Brinkhuis, at U.S. EPA, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Information Management Division (7407), 401 M Street SW, Washington DC 20460, Internet address: brinkhuis.randall@epamail.epa.gov
8/10/96
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