EPA EPSCoR Funding

Notice from Darrell Winner at EPA

After careful consideration, EPA has decided to follow the lead of NSF and USDA to fund proposals from EPSCoR states that have passed peer review and fall just below funding through regular EPA STAR solicitations (see http://es.epa.gov/ncer/).

We feel that this will result in funding high quality research and will allow the investigators to become familiar with the STAR program. EPA plans use its limited EPSCoR resources through this process and will no longer issue separate EPSCoR solicitations.

EPA continues to be committed to quality environmental research. We look forward to a renewed partnership with EPSCoR states to enhance the competitiveness of their environmental research.

The listing of current and pending solicitations is available at the STAR website http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/. This website also contains detailed instructions on how to submit an application.

The current and pending solicitations are:

• Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) - Opens October 29, 2002 - Closing: January 28, 2003

• Development of High-Throughput Screening Approaches for Prioritizing Chemicals for the Endocrine Disruptors Screening Program - Opens October 25, 2002 - Closing: January 29, 2003

• Development of Watershed Classification Systems for Diagnosis of Biological Impairment in Watersheds and their Receiving Water Bodies - Open: October 8, 2002 - Closing: January 29, 2003

• Measurements, Modeling and Analysis methods for Airborne Carbonaceous Fine Particulate Matter (PM 2.5) - Opens October 31, 2002 - Closing: February 5, 2003

• Aggregate Exposure Assessment for Pesticides: Longitudinal Case Studies - Open: January 7, 2002 - Closing: May 8, 2003

• Consequences of Global Change for Air Quality: Spatial Patterns in Air Pollution Emissions - Open: January 7, 2002 - Closing: April 9, 2003

• Drinking Water: Microbial Risk - Opens January 2003

• Environmental Statistics Research: Novel Analyses of Environmental Data - Opens January 2003

• PM Epidemiology Research - Opens January 2003

• Valuation for Environmental Policy - Opens January 2003

• Computational Toxicity for EDCs - Opens April 2003

• Corporate Environmental Behavior - Opens April 2003

• Genomic-based indicators of water quality - Opens April 2003

• Landscape Indicators/thresholds of Water Quality - Opens April 2003

• Market Mechanisms and Incentives for Environmental Management - Opens April 2003

• Environmental Technology Systems 2003 (EPA and NSF) -

  • Technology for a Sustainable Environment (TSE) - Opens December 2, 2002 - Closing: February 25, 2003

  • New Technologies for the Environment (NTE) - Opens December 2, 2002 - Closing: March 04, 2003

• EDC exposure-related and "low-dose" topics (EPA, NEIHS, NOAA, USGS, USDA) - Opens April 2003

Figure 1 shows the approximate portion of each research category for the $100 million EPA STAR funding.

If you have any questions regarding EPA EPSCoR, please contact Darrell Winner at 202-564-6929 or winner.darrell@epa.gov