Risk Assessment

Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment

This is the first step in a long-term effort to develop risk assessment guidelines for ecological effects. Its primary purpose is to offer a simple, flexible structure for conducting and evaluating ecological risk assessment within EPA.

This Framework served as the foundation for, and has been superseded by, EPA's 1998 Ecological Risk Assessment Guidelines.

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