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CRESP Task Groups
CRESP I was organized through 8 disciplinary Task Groups that were created to function in both
New Jersey and Washington. Progress was achieved by integrating interdisplinary efforts
within each university rather than nationally. The following is a list of the CRESP Task Groups with
a brief description of each group.
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Data Characterization, Analysis, and Statistics Task Group (DCAS)
Data and databases will be required by both stakeholders and CRESP.
This Task Group's goal is to establish and characterize such databases.
The initial tasks have a very substantial service component.
DCAS intends to move more to research activity as the services are established.
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Ecological Health Task Group
The goal of this Task Group is to develop risk-assessment procedures
and methods for the broad assessment of biological/ecological health.
It aims to expand risk assessment to measure ecological conditions
and understand their relationship to human activity, in order to minimize
unintended ecological consequences of human actions. The Task Group seeks
to demonstrate how the data from site-specific research informs the evolving
definition of ecological effect and helps illustrate the meaning of new
ecological assessment concepts.
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Exposure Assessment Task Group
The goal of the Exposure Assessment Task Group is to identify and
characterize processes by which persons living or working on or near
DOE sites might be exposed to contaminants. Such assessment of exposures
is critical for human-health and ecological-risk assessments.
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Health Hazard Identification Task Group
The goals of the Health Hazard Identification Task Group are
to identify and characterize existing health information and
concerns at the DOE sites, and to develop and validate methodologies
which will better characterize the effects of contaminants found at those sites.
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Outreach & Communication
The goal of this task group is to facilitate
the use of credible, equitable, and practical processes that actively incorporate stakeholder,
Native American, and expert input into the risk assessment and remediation effort,
especially regarding neglected or under-appreciated risks. As CRESP evolves,
that work will increasingly focus on the outreach efforts to assure that
the information needed for informed participation is available to the
full range of those affected.
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Remediation Technology Task Group
The goal of the Remediation Technology Group at both
institutions is to interface risk-assessment issues with
remediation choices and to wed the often disparate approaches
of risk assessment and remediation-related decisions.
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Social, Landuse, Demographics and Geography Task Group (SLUDGE)
The goals of this Task Group are to characterize proposed,
future land uses at DOE production sites and the distribution of
the benefits and risks that have resulted, and may yet result,
from remediation decisions.
This Task Group is examining the values which underlie future land-use scenarios,
the incorporation of these values into current remediation decision making, the
compatibility of possible scenarios, and the economic
and social impacts of remediation and future land uses.
Part of the group's work also deals with how technology selection decisions for
cleanup can affect the distribution of future risks and benefits at DOE sites.
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Worker Safety and Health Task Group
The goal of this Task Group is to assure worker safety
at DOE sites through studies and technical assistance
to workers and those responsible for occupational health
services. Both UW and EOHSI have long had an interest in
and activities addressing hazardous waste worker risks in
overall risk assessment evaluation. Both are funded
competitively by NIOSH for training of health professionals,
and both have been active in health surveillance and
monitoring activities among cleanup workers, including
needs assessment.
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