The multi-university Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) has been funded as a Department of Energy (DOE) cooperative agreement for five years (2006 - 2011) awarded to Vanderbilt University as the lead organization. This five-year period is referred to CRESP III, as it was preceeded by two five-year cooperative agreements, CRESP I and CRESP II. The objective of CRESP is to advance cost-effective, risk-based cleanup of the nation