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JOB SUMMARY:
Are you ready to accomplish something really worthwhile in your
career? If so, consider joining the more than 18,000 men and women
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Founded in 1970, EPA is a dynamic organization employing people from
diverse backgrounds dedicated to improving and preserving the
quality of public health and the environment. EPA seeks to recruit
exceptional men and women who will work in new creative ways that
are cleaner for the environment, cheaper for business and taxpayers,
and smarter for America's future.
This position is located in the Exposure Assessment Branch (EAB),
the Economics, Exposure and Technology Division (EETD), Office of
Pollution, Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Washington, D. C.

The Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP) will broaden your exposure
to EPA program; improve your knowledge, skills and abilities; and
afford you an opportunity to achieve a higher level of capability to
assume technical, scientific or administrative assignments.

If selected for a position, you will be placed in an excepted
service appointment. During which time, you will participate in a
two-year program of training and job assignments, developing the
mission-related competencies EPA needs. After successful completion
of the FCIP, you may be converted non-competitively to a career or
career-conditional appointment in your home office or another
organization.

EAB/EETD is responsible for (1) supporting OPPT's Pollution
Prevention, Design for the Environment and other voluntary and
regulatory program activities including testing, new chemical and
existing chemical programs by providing integrated assessments of
direct and indirect exposure to humans and the environment of
chemicals and genetically-engineered microorganisms; (2)
collaborating with the Agency's Research and Program Offices and
other federal agencies, and international groups in exposure
assessment methodology and tool and model development and use; (3)
providing scientific assessment of physical/chemical (p/chem)
properties, total chemical exposure including removal efficiencies
of waste water treatment systems, chemical and biological fate,
modeling of human and environmental exposure, population enumeration
and exposure integration.