The Superfund Research Program (SRP) was created within the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in 1986 under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA).
The SRP is a university-based research program that supports the national Superfund program by addressing a wide variety of scientific concerns.
[1] The SRP has a broad mandate including: The SRP encourages data sharing across different medical disciplines, to help better understand the link between exposures and health.
[2] To support grantees with data sharing the SRP has run webinars, and launched a data set library that contains a repository of research conducted by other grantees.
They currently fund more than twenty four separate university-based research centers using its annual budget.