NAS Plan To Update Key Risk Report May Eclipse OMB Risk Reform Plan

A forthcoming National Academy of Sciences (NAS) update of its seminal 1983 report that laid the foundations for EPA and other agencies' risk assessment practices could limit the influence of a controversial White House document that seeks to dramatically increase the stringency of those practices, EPA sources and other observers say. Earlier this month, EPA and the NAS entered into a contract to update the influential volume Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process , or "Red Book,"...