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ensure accuracy. Research to Protect, Restore, and Manage the
Environment training, including proposals to establish a
National Institutes for the Environment (NIE); address the
development and funding of institutional mechanisms to support
the full range of research, training and education needed to
increase the science base in the environmental regulatory
process; and examine how the results of environmental research
are used to inform environmental policy decisions made by EPA
(Environmental Protection Agency) and other federal agencies
with missions that affect environmental quality and natural
resources. If, in the course of the study, other critical issues
arise the committee will consider them in an appropriate manner.
In this report, Chapter 2 provides a perspective on
environmental problems in the nation and world. Chapt