Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation II

ATTACHMENT A.

An overview of CRESP II is also contained in a CRESP II Factsheet in pdf format.

Founders // Consortium Members // Mission // Research // Peer Review // Management Board //

FOUNDERS

CRESP was Co-founded by Drs. Bernard D. Goldstein, John A. Moore, Gilbert S. Omenn, Charles W. Powers and Arthur C. Upton in 1995.

The first five year cooperative agreement was implemented through the Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute with Bernard Goldstein as Principal Investigator, and Charles W. Powers as Executive Director. CRESP II was renewed in the form of a grant in 2000 with the Institute for Responsible Management as the lead institution, and Charles W. Powers as Principal Investigator.

CONSORTIUM MEMBERS

The CRESP university consortium members have included the following universities that participated in part or all of CRESP II: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, the New Jersey Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Vanderbilt University, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, University of Washington and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Mission

CRESP began operation in 1995 after receiving a competitive cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy. A key purpose of CRESP is to test the viability of the 1994 National Academy of Science's conclusion.........

the Environmental Management Office of DOE needs an independent institutional mechanism to develop data and methodology to make risk a key part of its decision making.

CRESP sought to fulfill its mission by improving the scientific and technical basis of environmental management decisions leading to:

• advance protective and cost-effective cleanup of the nation's nuclear weapons
• enhance stakeholder understanding of the nation's nuclear weapons production facility waste sites

CRESP pursued this mission through a unique institutional model:

1. Its primary mode of operation is a program of interdisciplinary university research;
2. It is independent and its beneficiaries are those who have a stake in effective cleanup of federal facilities;
3. It is organized to provide both guidance to and peer review of the evolving effort to utilize risk methods and evaluations to shape cleanup decisions at DOE sites.

RESEARCH:

The CRESP II project has sought to define and assess the technical and regulatory scope and approaches useful for the DOE as it strives to undertake its cleanup and stewardship responsibilities in a protective and cost-effective manner at contaminated sites. The project effort focused on supporting independent and collaborative research, reviews, methods, data gathering and stakeholder participation needed for effective evaluation and communication of DOE-related health, environmental and other risks. The project focused responsively on important cleanup-related challenges at the sites and on the end states which cleanups seek to achieve. The project effort sought to accomplish the outcomes by:

performing targeted studies on specific risk related issues important to the long-term management of environmental problems;

contributing to risk evaluation and assessment, or to the development of related methodologies, relevant to risk issues at a number of DOE sites;

focusing on the collection and analysis of data needed for effective risk evaluation, and on the definition and assessment of relevant technical and regulatory approaches valuable in resolving risk-related issues;

providing an independent mechanism to support the assessment of DOE's needs for research, to critique current research, and to develop data relevant to the concerns of the public, to support planning and to be responsive to evolving regulatory commitments; and

supporting efforts to improve working relationships and communications with the public and stakeholders at sites and across the DOE complex.

PEER REVIEW:

CRESP sought to ensure the scientific soundness, reliability, and credibility of studies, procedures, or reports of major importance to CRESP and its stakeholders, CRESP organizational plan called at the outset for the establishment of a committee of independent experts who could provide the timely, knowledgeable, and objective peer review needed for the purpose. To this end, nationally recognized leaders in the pertinent disciplines were appointed to a standing Peer Review Committee, which operates independently of all other CRESP units. The committee evaluated a number of selected studies, and issues judged by CRESP scientists or others to be pivotal to the resolution of key questions. The committee did not routinely reviewed individual CRESP research products, since they are generally published in the Peer Reviewed literature.

Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Chair

John Ahearne, Ph.D., The Scientific Research Society
Eula Bingham, Ph.D., Institute of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati Health Science Center
Melvin W. Carter, Ph.D., International Radiation Protection Consultant
William Cooper, Ph.D., Department of Environmental Toxicology, Michigan State University
Charles Fairhurst, Ph.D., Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Minnesota
Sheila Jasanoff, Ph.D., Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Russell Jim, Yakama Indian Nation
Renate D. Kimbrough, M.D., Institute for Evaluating Health Risks
Morton Lippmann, Ph.D., New York University- Medical Center
Knut Ringen, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., M.H.A., Project Director, Building Trades Hearing Conservation Program, Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council
Milton Russell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Tennessee
Mervyn Tano, General Counsel, Council of Energy Resource Tribes
Bailus Walker, Jr., Ph.D., M.P.H., Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Howard University
Lauren Zeise, Ph.D., Reproductive and Cancer Hazards Assessment Section, California EPA

MANAGEMENT BOARD

Charles W. Powers, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator CRESP II
President, Institute for Responsible Management
Professor, Vanderbilt University

Joanna Burger, Ph.D.
Professor, Rutgers University
Division of Life Sciences

Michael Greenberg, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health
Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Policy
Rutgers University

Bernard D. Goldstein, M.D.
School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

David Kosson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University

FINAL REPORT: A Summary of Work 2000 - 2006

Instrument No. DE - FG26-00NT 40938 (Original Instrument No. DE-FG01-03EW15336)

Submitted by Charles W. Powers, PI CRESP II
Institute for Responsible Management
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