Archived Funding Opportunities for the Western IPM Center
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Grant: Aggregate Exposure Assessment for Pesticides—Longitudinal Case Studies
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has up to $6 million expected to be available in fiscal year 2001 for awards in this program area of pesticide exposure research. The projected award range is $250,000 to 350,000 per year, including direct and indirect costs, for up to 4 years.
SUBJECT: Funding Opportunity, Aggregate Exposure Assessment for Pesticides—Longitudinal Case Studies, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Research, EPA
STAR GRANT OPPORTUNITIES: Please share with your contacts this Web site: http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/rfa/aggexpos01.html.
OPEN: October 30, 2000 - CLOSE: March 7, 2001
The EPA will support longitudinal case studies designed to assess aggregate, non-occupational exposures to pesticides in defined populations aimed at addressing important public health issues. These issues may concern the toxicity of a particular chemical or class of chemicals and/or relate to a health endpoint and its potential link to pesticide exposures. Specifically, there is a need for information on aggregate human exposures to commercial pesticide chemicals such as, but not limited to, pyrethroid insecticides, triazine herbicides, and residential-use pesticides. The EPA is seeking grant proposals that describe studies for assessing pesticide exposure that incorporate estimates of temporal and inter-individual variability.
Successful proposals will be those that effectively include and address as many of the following as possible in longitudinal studies:
- The identification of study hypotheses that are supported by rationales for the selection of the population of concern (characteristics and numbers) and the target pesticides in relation to the environmental and public health issues associated with their use.
- The development of approaches for assessing pesticide exposures via multiple pathways and routes (e.g., inhalation, dietary and non-dietary ingestion, and dermal contact).
- This research should emphasize temporal variation in exposure and exposure-related factors.
- The development of improved methods for assessing exposures to specific classes of pesticides. This should include methods to determine the temporal nature of various sources and the resulting impact on exposure.
- The evaluation of exposures to pesticides resulting from various sources (e.g., agricultural application to food crops, residential lawn treatment, indoor residential uses, pet uses) and apportionment of the exposures and doses.
- The development of methods to account for short-term, intermittent exposures to pesticides, and evaluation of the importance of aggregate exposures under such conditions.
- The development of assessments of pesticide exposure that include evaluations of the uncertainty and variability associated with the exposure estimates.
FUNDS AVAILABLE: Up to $6 million is expected to be available in fiscal year 2001 for awards in this program area. The projected award range is $250,000 to 350,000 per year, including direct and indirect costs, for up to 4 years.
