Future Strategies to Address PPCPs

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Future Strategies to Address PPCPs

• Octavia Conerly
• Health and Ecological Criteria Division
• Office of Water
• October 26, 2005

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USEPA Disclaimer

• The contents of this presentation are the
  expressed opinions of the author and do not
  necessarily reflect the opinions of the USEPA.

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Future Strategies

• OST Literature PPCP Database
• Contains summaries of peer-reviewed articles
  (1970s-present)
• Searchable by author, title, keyword
• Presently contains over 400 citations and
  summaries
• Hard copies of articles cataloged
• OW plans to use data from the literature to help
  prioritize PPCPs of concern

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Future Strategies

• Workshop
• Focus on long-term strategy and interim measures
• Identify and prioritize data gaps
• Identify a list of compounds to direct our focus
• Analytical methods development in various media
• Ecological and human health effects
• Treatment (removal during treatment)
• Exposure via biosolids (leaching from surface
  applied biosolids)

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Future Opportunities for Collaboration

• Data sharing with various agencies (e.g.-USGS,
  CDC, FDA, USDA)
• Occurrence and health effects data
• To develop water quality standards/criteria
• To develop drinking water regulations
• To assess increasing antibiotic resistance
• To develop effluent guidelines
• Technology sharing
• Methods development
• Treatment
• External input into EPA assessments

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Research Assessment Management
EPA Scientific Research/ Data Collection
Risk Assessment

• Animal Toxicology
• Clinical Studies
• Epidemiology
• Cell/Tissue
• Experiments
• Computational
• Methods
• Monitoring/
• Surveillance

Dose-Response Assessment
Risk Management
Treatment Technology
Research Needs
Risk Manage- ment Decisions
Risk Characteri- zation
Hazard Identification
Collaboration
Exposure Assessment

• Other Federal Agencies
• States/Local
• Academia
• Industry
• Public Interest/Environmental Groups

Collaboration
Costs/ Benefits
External Input into Research/ Assessment
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Future Opportunities for Collaboration

• Collaboration within EPA (program offices and
  regions)
• To develop EPA approved methods for detection
• To determine additional research needs
• To develop guidance on how to move forward until
  risk assessments for these types of contaminants
  are available

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Contact Information

• Octavia Conerly
• 202-566-1094
• conerly.octavia_at_epa.gov