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Legacy ORD Functions within the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment

Legacy ORD Functions within the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA)
Former Lab/Center and Division	Functions Incorporated into the New Structure	CPHEA Division
National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) – Immediate Office	Dioxin Risk Assessment (RISK) (includes EPA Risk Guidelines, framework , handbooks, and EPA reports, models and tools on human health and ecological risk assessment)	CPHEA - Chemical and Pollutant Assessment Division (CPAD)
NCEA – Washington Division	EcoBox Toolbox ExpoBox Toolbox	CPHEA - CPAD
NCEA – Washington Division	Biofuels Report to Congress Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System (CADDIS) Global Change Assessments and Research Global Change Explore (GCX) (which contains the Critical Loads Mapper, ICLUS, 20-Watersheds Tool, LASSO and METRO) Report on the Environment	CPHEA - Health and Environmental Effects Assessment Division (HEEAD)
NCEA – RTP Division	Benchmark Dose Tools (BMDS and CatReg) Health and Environmental Research Online (HERO) Integrated Science Assessments	CPHEA - HEEAD
NCEA – Cincinnati Division	Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Values (PPRTV) Ecological Risk Assessment Support Center (ERASC) (moved to ORD/CESER)	CPHEA - CPAD
NCEA – IRIS Division	Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)	CPHEA - CPAD
National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL)– Computational Exposure Division (CED)	Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool for meteorological and air quality simulations Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Non-point Sources (BASINS) Chemical and Product Categories Database (CPCat) Community-LINE Source Model (C-LINE) to estimate roadway emissions Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System (CMAQ) Fertilizer Emission Scenario Tool Probabilistic Reverse dOsimetry Estimating Exposure Distribution (PROcEED) Virtual Beach (VB) Visual Environment for Rich Data Interpretation (VERDI) Watershed Deposition Tool	CPHEA - Public Health and Environmental Systems Division (PHESD)
NERL – Exposure Methods and Measurement Division (EMMD)	Air Sensor Toolbox for Citizen Scientists Microbiological Methods and Online Publications EPA Drinking Water Research Methods EPA Federal Reference & Equivalent Methods Advancing air sensor technology Harmful Algal Bloom and Cyanobacteria Research Nanomaterials Research Research on Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFC) Village Green Project	CPHEA-PHESD
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL)-Environmental Public Health Division (EPHD)	Clinical Cohort Studies EnviroAtlas Environmental Quality Index(EQI)	CPHEA-PHESD
NHEERL –EPHD Division	Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) Knowledgebase (Joint-project) Health Outcomes of NAAQS Pollutants Identification of Interventions Smoke-Ready Toolbox for Wildfires Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients' Health	CPHEA - Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division (PHITD)
NHEERL – Toxicity Assessment Division (TAD)	Assessment of Drinking Water Contaminants Cellular and Target Organ Effects Sequence Alignment to Predict Across Species Susceptibility (SeqAPASS) Children’s Environmental Health	CPHEA - PHITD
NHEERL – Western Ecology Division (WED)	Final Ecosystem Goods and Services (FEGS) Ecoregions HexSim Modeling Simulator Tool (HexSim) Stable Isotope Mixing Models Lake-Catchment (LakeCat) National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) National Ecosystem Services Classification System Stream-Catchment (StreamCat) Visualization Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (VELMA) Model	CPHEA - Pacific Ecological Systems Division (PESD)

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Legacy ORD Functions within the Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
Legacy ORD Functions within the Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling