On October 1, 2005, ERSD (now CESD)’s Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) program and Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) were merged to create the Environmental Remediation Sciences Program (ERSP), in accordance with Congressional direction. The new ERSP will continue to support and build on the substantial research progress developed under the former NABIR and EMSP programs to address some of the nation’s most difficult environmental cleanup problems, and it will continue the former NABIR and EMSP program objectives to understand and influence contaminant mobility in the subsurface. The merging of the two former programs does not alter previously existing awards.
