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ABEL Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The ABEL Model evaluates a corporation's or partnership's claim that it cannot afford compliance costs, clean-up costs, or civil penalties.
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AQI Calculator: AQI to Concentration
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS). Select a criteria pollutant and enter the Air Quality Index (AQI); the associated pollutant concentration and health information are indicated.
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Arsenic Rule State Primacy Requirements (PDF)
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water. Slides and narrative from one of the presentations delivered in EPA's 2002 Arsenic Rule Training Sessions.
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Arsenic Rule State Primacy Requirements (Powerpoint)
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water. Copies of the slides from one of the presentations delivered in EPA's 2002 Arsenic Rule Training Sessions.
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BEN Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The BEN Model calculates a violator's economic savings from delaying and/or avoiding pollution control expenditures.
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Dashboard of Sustainability
By Consultative Group on Sustainable Development Indicators. A software package that illustrates the complex relationships among economic, social and environmental issues. The visual format is suitable for decision-makers and others interested in sustainable development. This edition promotes the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) indicators—especially for developing countries. These indicators help define Poverty Reduction Strategies and monitor the achievement of the MDGs.
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Environmental Health Series (PH 471-477)
By The School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center offers competency-based, completely online courses for public health workers that are offered in a self-directed, instructor-led format. This series covers environmental health and includes the courses PH 471 to PH 477: What is Environmental Health?; Source and Hazard Assessment; Qualitative Risk Assessment; and Environmental Health Risk Communication.
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Environmental Planning for Small Communities (TRILOGY)
By US Environmental Protection Agency and Purdue University. An introduction to a wide range of environmental issues and decisions that affect small to medium-sized communities. It offers communities the chance to judge their own needs and preferences, and to make informed decisions on their own. Major sections cover: environmental laws and regulations, self-assessment planning and comparative risk analysis, financial tools and financial self-analysis, case studies, and contact and information directory. Each section includes interactive tools, such as a notebook tool to fill in and save survey forms and keep notes. The program combines and integrates numerous publications from Federal agencies and States like Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, and Utah.
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EnviroRisk
By The School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A case-based, problem-solving program in environmental risk assessment and risk communication. You will play the role of a public health professional as you go through the course. This course will develop your ability to investigate an environmental health problem and serve as a resource and risk communicator in your community. Credit for taking this course is available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Epi Info
By US Center for Disease Control (CDC). With Epi Info and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data. Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP. Epi Map displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info.
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EpiCalc 2000
By Mark Myatt. A statistical calculator that works with pre-tabulated data. Some of the functions available in EpiCalc will be of general use but they have been chosen to be of interest to persons working with data from a public health or epidemiological context.
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HRS Quickscore
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Program. Created to assist in scoring sites using EPA's Hazard Ranking System (HRS). HRS Quickscore is an electronic set of HRS scoresheets that executes real time site score calculations. It was designed to assist in developing a conceptual site model for Superfund site assessments. This product is intended for use by those individuals who plan and implement Preliminary Assessments (PAs), Site Inspections (SIs), and other data collection efforts according to the HRS rules, as well as those individuals that write and review HRS documentation records.
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HRS Toolbox
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Program. The HRS Toolbox page provides current guidance documents that may be used to determine if a site is a candidate for inclusion on the National Priorities List.
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INDIPAY Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The INDIPAY Model evaluates an individual taxpayer's claim that it cannot afford compliance costs, clean-up costs, or civil penalties.
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Monitoring Data Checking (MDC) Software
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Acid Rain Program. Allows regulated industry and State agencies to enter, analyze, print and export electronic monitoring plan, certification and quality assurance data for the OTC NOx Budget Program and the Acid Rain Program.
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MUNIPAY Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The MUNIPAY Model evaluates a municipality's, town's, sewer authority's, or drinking water authority's claim that it cannot afford compliance costs, clean-up costs, or civil penalties.
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National Emissions Inventory Input Format (NIF)
By US Environmental Protection Agency. The NEI Input Format (NIF) is the format most widely used by state and local agencies to transfer data to the EPA's National Emission Inventory (NEI). The most current version of the NIF, Version 2.0, and all user documentation is posted here for users to download. In addition, there is a software program included here for download to help NIF users perform quality control (QC) checks on their files to ensure correct format specification.
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National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Urban Areas
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds. This guidance document is designed to help citizens and municipalities in urban areas protect bodies of water from polluted runoff that can result from everyday activities. The guidance also offers help to states for implementing their nonpoint source control programs and to municipalities for implementing their Phase II Storm Water Permit Programs.
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PROJECT Model
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The PROJECT Model calculates the real cost to a defendant of a proposed supplemental environmental project.
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Public Health Practice Series (PH 411-417)
By The School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center offers competency-based, completely online courses for public health workers that are offered in a self-directed, instructor-led format. This series covers basic public health practice and includes the courses PH 411 to PH 417: What is Public Health?; Understanding and Measuring Health; Population Based Prevention; Law, Government & Public Health; Core Functions & Public Health Practice; Public Health Infrastructure; and Public Health Interventions.
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Regulatory Economic Analyses Inventory
By US Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE). A database of a variety of regulatory economic analyses on most major US regulations. Some of the recent ones are available for download.
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RMP*Review
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office (CEPPO). Designed for reviewing and analyzing Risk Management Plans (RMPs) submitted under the Clean Air Act, Section 112(r). It has advanced query capabilities for users who want to analyze RMP data beyond the capabilities of RMP*Info (e.g., state implementing agencies, LEPCs, etc.)
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State Implementation Plans -- Region 5
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation. Contains State Implementation Plans (SIPs) for each state in Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin). SIPs are a collection of regulations that explain how a State will clean up polluted areas under the Clean Air Act.
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STELLAR: Systematic Tracking of Elevated Lead Levels and Remediation
By US Center for Disease Control (CDC). A software application provided to State and local Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs (CLPPPs) with a practical means of tracking medical and environmental activities in lead poisoning cases. The intent of this application is to provide an electronic means of addressing the data that Programs receive from labs, providers, clinics and case management professionals.
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Superfund Chemical Data Matrix (SCDM)
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Program. Contains factor values and benchmark values applied when evaluating potential National Priorities List (NPL) sites using the Hazard Ranking System (HRS). Factor values are used for determining the relative threat posed by a hazardous waste site and reflect hazardous substance characteristics, such as toxicity and persistence in the environment, substance mobility, and potential for bioaccumulation. Benchmarks are environment- or health-based substance concentration limits developed by or used in other EPA regulatory programs. SCDM contains HRS factor values and benchmark values for hazardous substances that are frequently found at sites evaluated using the HRS, as well as the physical, chemical, and radiological data used to calculate those values. PDF files.
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Water Quality Standards and Criteria
By US Environmental Protection Agency and Purdue University. Provides a framework for maintenance and improvement of water quality when adopted by States, U.S. Territories, and Indian Tribes. This software presents the three components of State and Tribal water quality standards: waterbody uses (e.g. swimming, boating), water quality criteria or limits on chemical concentrations that may be present the waterbody, and antidegradation policy to protect existing water quality. It explains how Indian tribes can become involved, and describes discretionary policies that affect water quality standards (WQS), economic considerations in the WQS program, EPA's role and responsibility in the WQS process, and implementation of WQS through National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits. Relevant sections of the Clean Water Act are included, along with information on use attainability analysis, the submittal/approval process, implementation, and public involvement. Additionally, the user is provided with resources, contacts, a glossary of terms, and several examples of water quality standards.
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Watershed Plan Builder
By US Environmental Protection Agency. This tool walks you through a series of pages where you can input information about your watershed. The end product is a customized outline that can be used to develop a watershed management plan.
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Working with Communities for Environmental Health (Webcast on Demand)
By US Center for Disease Control (CDC). This program is an edited version of the Working with Communities for Environmental Health satellite broadcast and webcast, originally aired on September 12, 2002. Environmental conditions and their impact on health are a growing concern. It is challenging for communities and individuals to obtain reliable, accurate environmental health information. It is equally challenging for health and environmental professionals to work effectively with communities and individuals concerned about or facing environmental health issues. This program demonstrates a framework for working with communities and individuals to improve their capacity for making informed decisions that promote environmental health and quality of life. The program examines cultural, behavioral, environmental, and policy influences that impact community-based work throughout the process. Continuing education credits are available.
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