Eliminate several research office programs including the risk information system
What the document says“Several ORD offices and programs, many of which constitute unaccountable efforts to use scientific determinations to drive regulatory, enforcement, and legal decisions, should be eliminated.”
The chapter gives the Integrated Risk Information System as its example, saying it has operated since the 1980s without ever being authorized by Congress, often sets safe levels based on what it calls questionable science and below background levels, and results in billions in economic costs.
What the document actually says“Several ORD offices and programs, many of which constitute unaccountable efforts to use scientific determinations to drive regulatory, enforcement, and legal decisions, should be eliminated.”
Some research offices here should be closed. Their science drives rules and cases.
One office studies how harmful chemicals are. Its findings shape rules and lawsuits. The book says Congress never approved it. It wants it closed.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The consolidated appropriations act for fiscal year 2026, enacted January 23, 2026, is the only candidate that acts on EPA's research money, and it funds the work: $744,195,000 for EPA science and technology and $3,114,671,000 for programs and management. It eliminates no research office program. Nothing indexed abolishes the Integrated Risk Information System or any other program in the Office of Research and Development. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.