is also responsible for coordinating communication with the industrial community on matters relating to implementation of TSCA and provides scientific and administrative staff support to the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee.

§ 1.32 Office of the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development. The Assistant Administrator for Research and Development serves as the principal science adviser to the Administrator, and is responsible for the development, direction, and conduct of a national research, development and demonstration program in: Pollution sources, fate, and health and welfare effects; pollution prevention and control, and waste management and utilization technology; environmental sciences; and monitoring systems. The Office participates in the development of Agency policy, standards, and regulations and provides for dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge, including analytical methods, monitoring techniques, and modeling methodologies. The Office serves as coordinator for the Agency's policies and programs concerning carcinogenesis and related problems and assures appropriate quality control and standardization of analytical measurement and monitoring techniques utilized by the Agency. The Office exercises review and concurrence responsibilities on an Agencywide basis in all budgeting and planning actions involving monitoring which require Headquarters approval.

(a) Office of Monitoring Systems of Quality Assurance. The Office of Monitoring Systems and Quality Assurance, under the supervision of a Director, is responsible for planning, managing and evaluating a comprehensive program for: (1) Development and demonstration of techniques and methods to measure exposure and to relate ambient concentrations to exposure by critical receptors; (2) research, development and demonstration of new monitoring methods, systems, techniques and equipment for detection, identification and characterization of pollutants at the source, and in the ambient environment, and for use as references or standard monitoring methods; (3) establishment, direction

and coordination of Agencywide Quality Assurance Programs; and (4) development and provision of quality assurance methods, techniques and materials including validation and standardization of analytical methods, sampling, techniques, quality control methods, standard reference materials, and techniques for data collection, evaluation and interpretation. The Office identifies specific research, development, demonstration and service needs and priorities; establishes program policies and guidelines; develops program plans, including objectives and estimates or resources required to accomplish objectives; administers the approved program and activities; assigns approved program and activities; assigns program responsibility and resources to the laboratories; directs and supervises assigned laboratories in program administration; and conducts reviews of program progress and takes action as necessary to assure timeliness, quality and responsiveness of outputs.

(b) Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology. The Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology, under the supervision of the Director, is responsible for planning, managing and evaluating a comprehensive program for the: (1) Development and demonstration of cost-effective methods for control and management of operations with environmental impacts associated with the extraction, processing, conversion, and transportation of energy, minerals, and other resources; and with industrial processing and manufacturing facilities; (2) development and demonstration of cost-effective methods for the prevention or management of pollution discharge or waste disposal into the environment from public sector activities, including publicly-owned waste water and solid waste facilities; (3) improvement of drinking water supply and system operations, including improved understanding of water supply technology and water supply criteria. The Office develops program plans including objectives and justifies these resources, and, after receiving them, carries out the approved program and activities; (4) assigns objectives and resources to the laboratories

assigned to the Office. The Office conducts appropriate reviews to assure the quality, timeliness and responsiveness of outputs, and (5) analysis of the relative environmental and socio-economic impacts of energy, minerals, and other resource extraction, transportation, processing, conversion, and utilization systems, and of other industrial operations. The Office is the focal point for providing liaison with the rest of the Agency and with the Department of Energy on issues associated with energy development (excluding issues of research planning and implementation of the measurement, fate, and effects of energy pollutants that are conducted under the Interagency Energy/Environment

Program), and liaison with the rest of the Agency on issues related to controlling pollution discharges.

(c) Office of Environmental Processes and Effects Research. The Office of Environmental Processes and Effects Research, under the supervision of the Director, is responsible for planning, managing, and evaluating a comprehensive research program to develop the scientific and technological methods and data necessary to understand ecological processes, and predict broad ecosystems impacts, and to manage the entry, movement, and fate of pollutants upon nonhuman organisms and ecosystems. The comprehensive program includes:

(1) The development of organism and ecosystem level effect data needed for the establishment of standards, criteria or guidelines for the protection of nonhuman components of the environment and ecosystem integrity and the prevention of harmful human exposure to pollutants;

(2) The development of methods to determine and predict the fate, transport, and environmental levels which may result in human exposure and exposure of nonhuman components of the environment, resulting from the discharge of pollutants, singly or in combination into the environment, including development of source criteria for protection of environmental quality;

(3) The development and demonstration of methods for the control or management of adverse environmental

impacts from agriculture and other rural nonpoint sources;

(4) The development and demonstration of integrated pest managment strategies for the management of agriculture and urban pests which utilize alternative biological cultural and chemical controls;

(5) The development of laboratory and field-scale screening tests to provide data that can be used to predict the behavior of pollutants in terms of movement in the environment, accumulation in the food chain, effects on organisms, and broad escosystem impacts;

(6) Coordination of interagency research, activities associated with the health and environmental impacts of energy production and use; and

(7) Development and demonstration of methods for restoring degraded ecosystem by means other than source control.

(d) Office of Health Research. The Office Health Research, under the supervision of the Director, is responsible for the management of planning, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive, integrated human health research program which documents acute and chronic adverse effects to man from environmental exposure to pollutants and determines those exposures which have a potentially adverse effect on humans. The Office is responsible for criteria development and scientific assessments in support of the Agency's regulating and standardsetting activities. It develops methodology and conducts laboratory and field research studies; and develops interagency programs which effectively use pollutants. The Office is the Agency's focal point for providing liaison relative to human health effects and related human exposure issues (excluding issues related to the planning and implementation of research on the human health effects of energy pollutants that is conducted under the Interagency Energy/Environment Program). It responds to changing requirements of the Regions, program offices and other offices for priority technical assistance. In close coordination with Agency research and advisory committees, other agencies and offices, and interaction with academic

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other independent scientific bodies, the Office develops health science policy for the Agency. Through these relationships and the scientific capabilities of its laboratories and Headquarters staffs, the Office provides a centrum for matters pertaining to the effects of human exposure to environmental pollutants.

§ 1.33 The Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.

The Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response serves as the principal adviser to the Administrator in matters pertaining to solid waste and emergency response programs and shall be responsible for the management of these programs in the Agency including: Program policy development and evaluation; development of appropriate hazards waste standards and regulations; ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations; program policy guidance and overview, technical support, and evaluation of Regional solid waste and emergency response activities; development of programs for technical, programmatic, and compliance assistance to States and local government; development of guidelines and standards for the land disposal of hazardous wastes; analyses on the recovery of useful energy from solid waste, and development and implementation of a program to respond to uncontrolled hazardous waste sites and spills (including oil spills).

(a) Office of Waste Programs Enforcement. The Office of Waste Programs Enforcements, under the supervision of a Director, provides program management and implements the policy developed by the Office of Legal and Enforcement Counsel and General Counsel for the solid waste and emergency/remedial response (hereafter referred to as "response") enforcement activities of the Agency. The Office supervises those enforcement activities and provides policy direction to Regional solid waste and response enforcement programs. It develops objectives, strategy, programs, and evaluation criteria for solid waste and response enforcement activities. These activities include the development of policy statements, procedures,

regulations, guidelines, evaluation criteria, and compliance monitoring standards designed to bring about actions by the private sector and governmental bodies to control solid and hazardous waste problems affecting the environment, and human health.

(b) Office of Solid Waste. The Office of Solid Waste, under the supervision of a Director, is responsible for the solid waste activities of the Agency. The Office provides program policy direction to and evaluation of such activities throughout the Agency and establishes solid waste research requirements for EPA.

(c) Office of Emergency and Remedial Response. The Office of Emergency and Remedial Response, under the supervision of a Director, is responsible for the emergency and remedial response functions of the Agency. The Office is specifically responsible for:

(1) Developing national strategy, programs, technical policies, regulations and guidelines for the control of abandoned hazardous waste sites, and response to and prevention of oil and hazardous substance spills;

(2) Providing direction, guidance, and support to the Environmental Response Teams and overseeing their activities;

(3) Providing direction, guidance and support to the Agency's non-enforcement emergency and remedial response to environmental emergencies;

(4) Providing direction, guidance and support to the Agency's non-enforcement emergency and remedial response programs, including emergency and remedial responses to hazardous waste sites;

(5) Developing national accomplishment plans and resources;

(6) Scheduling the guidelines for program plans;

(7) Assisting in the training of personnel;

(8) Monitoring and evaluating the performance, progress, and fiscal status of the Regions in implementing emergency and remedial response program plans;

(9) Maintaining liaison with concerned public and private national organizations for emergency response;

(10) Supporting State emergency response programs; and

(11) Coordinating Office activities with other EPA programs.

§ 1.34 The Office of Water.

The Assistant Administrator for Water serves as the principal adviser to the Administrator in matters pertaining to water programs, and shall be responsible for the management of the water programs of the Agency, including: Program policy development and evaluation; environmental and pollution sources standards development; program policy guidance and overview, technical support, and evaluation of Regional water activities; the conduct of enforcement activities as they relate to water programs; development of programs for technical assistance and technology transfer; and, development of selected demonstration programs.

(a) Office of Water Enforcement. The Office of Water Enforcement, under the supervision of a Director, implements program policy developed by the Office of Legal and Enforcement Counsel and General Counsel as it relates to the water and water supply enforcement activities of the Agency, including direct supervision of those enforcement activities reporting directly to the Office of Water Enforcement and technical program direction to the Regional water enforcement activities. The Office develops objectives and programs for water enforcement activities, including the development of procedures, regulatory material, guidelines, criteria, and policy statements designed to bring about actions by individuals, private enterprise, and governmental bodies to improve the quality of the water.

(b) Office of Water Regulations and Standards. The Office of Water Regulations and Standards, under the supervision of Director, is responsible for the Agency's water regulations and standards functions. The Office is responsible for developing an overall program strategy for the achievement of water pollution abatement in cooperation with other appropriate program offices. The Office assures the coordination of all national water-related activities within this water program strategy, and monitors national progress toward the achievement of

water quality goals and is responsible for the development of effluent guidelines and water quality standards, and other pollutant standards, regulations, and guidelines within the program responsibilities of the Office. It exercises overall responsibility for the development of effective State and Regional water quality regulatory control programs. The Office is responsible for the development and maintenance of a centralized water programs data system including compatible water quality, discharger, and program data files utilizing, but not displacing, files developed and maintained by other program offices. It is responsible for developing national accomplishment plans and resource and schedule guidelines for monitoring and evaluating the performance, progress, and fiscal status of the organization in implementing program plans. The Office represents EPA in activities with the Water Resources Council and other Federal agencies concerned with water quality regulations and standards.

(c) Office of Water Program Operations. The Office of Water Program Operations, under the supervision of Director, is responsible for the Agency's water program operations functions. The Office is responsible for developing national programs, technical policies, regulations, and guidelines for the municipal wastewater treatment construction grants program and for water quality management and control of pollution from point and nonpoint sources; for proividing technical direction and support to Regional Offices and other organizations; and for evaluating Regional and State programs with respect to municipal point and nonpoint source abatement and control, and manpower development for water-related activities. The Office is responsible for developing national accomplishment plans and resource and schedule guidelines for program plans required of the Divisions; for monitoring and evaluating the performance, progress, and fiscal status of the divisions in implementing program plans.

(d) Office of Drinking Water. The Office of Drinking Water, under the supervision of a Director, is responsible for the water supply activities of the Agency, including the develop

ment of an implementation strategy which provides the national policy direction and coordination for the program. This Office establishes standards, develops regulations, policies, and guidelines for drinking water quality and treatment requisite to protect the public health and welfare and to protect existing and future groundwater sources of drinking water; provides guidance and technical information to State agencies, local utilities, and Federal facilities through the Regional Offices on program planning, and phasing; evaluates the national level of compliance with the regulations; plans and develops policy guidance for response to national, Regional, and local emergencies; reviews and evaluates, with Regional Offices, technical data for the designation of solesource aquifers; designs a national program of public information to encourage citizens participation aimed at the goal, "Safe Drinking Water for all Americans", provides program policy direction for technical assistance and manpower training activities in the water supply area; identifies research needs and develops monitoring requirements for the national water supply program; develops national accomplishment plans and resource schedule guidelines for monitoring and evaluating the program plans, and program performance, and fiscal status; develops program plans, and budget and program status reports for the water supply program; coordinates water supply activities with other Federal agencies as necessary; and serves as liaison with the National Drinking Water Advisory Council.

Subpart C-Field Installations

§ 1.41 Regional Offices.

Regional Administrators are responsible to the Administrator, within the boundaries of their Regions, for the execution of the Regional programs of the Agency and such other responsibilities as may be assigned, and serves as the Administrator's principal representative in the Regions in contacts and relationships with Federal, State, interstate and local agencies, industry, academic institutions, and other public and private groups. Regional Adminis

trators are responsible for accomplishing national program objectives within the Regions as established by the Administrator, Deputy Administrator, Associate Administrators, Assistant Administrators, and Heads of Headquarters Staff Officers. Regional Administrators develop, propose, and implement an approved Regional program for comprehensive and integrated environmental protection activities. Regional Administrators are responsible for total resource management in the Regions within guidelines provided by the Headquarters, and is responsible for translating technical program direction and evaluation, provided by the various Associate Administrators, Assistant Administrators and Heads of Headquarters Staff Offices, into effective operating programs at the Regional level, and assuring that such programs are executed efficiently. Regional Administrators exercise approval authority for proposed State standards and implementation plans; and provide for overall and specific evaluations of Regional programs, both internal and State activities.