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ETV Program Outreach Workshop in EPA Region 4
November 16, 2004
Atlanta, Georgia

The ETV Program will sponsor an outreach workshop on November 16, 2004, at EPA Region 4 Offices in Atlanta, GA. The workshop will provide information on ETV to the EPA regional office, the local environmental community, and state regulators and permitters located in EPA Region 4 (which includes the states of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida). ETV personnel will provide updates on recent and upcoming innovative technology verifications in water and water security, air and energy, toxics and prevention, and safe buildings. ETV is also seeking ideas and feedback from workshop participants regarding priority technologies to verify. Vendors with ETV-verified technologies will provide technology displays and demonstrations as appropriate. The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m to 2:15 p.m. in Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center Conference Rooms B and C. For additional information, or to register for the workshop, please visit http://www.scgcorp.com/etvmeeting2004/ or contact Abby Waits, EPA, at (513) 569-7884 or waits.abby@epa.gov.

What is the ETV Program?

EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program develops testing protocols and verifies the performance of innovative technologies that have the potential to improve protection of human health and the environment. ETV was created to accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace. ETV is also verifying monitoring and treatment technologies relevant for homeland security.

How Does ETV Operate?

  • ETV, which began in October 1995, operates through public/private testing partnerships to evaluate the performance of environmental technology in all media: air, water, soil, ecosystems, waste, pollution prevention, and monitoring.


  • Market input is conveyed by the active involvement of stakeholder groups consisting of technology buyers, sellers, permitters, consultants, financiers, exporters and others within each sector.


  • Any technology vendor within each technology category selected by stakeholders for verification is welcome, but in no way required, to participate.


  • All test/quality assurance plans and protocols are developed with the participation of technical experts, stakeholders, and vendors; available prior to testing; peer reviewed by other experts; and updated after testing, as appropriate.


  • Most test procedures, technology performance reports, and verification statements are available on the ETV Web Site within hours of finalization.


  • The highest levels of quality data are assured through the implementation of the ETV Quality Management Plan which is compatible with both American and internationally accepted quality standards.

Why Does EPA's Office of Research and Development Conduct a Program to Verify the Performance of Innovative Private Sector Environmental Technologies?

  • The level of environmental risk reduction that occurs in the real world is directly related to the level of performance and effectiveness of technologies purchased or used.


  • Private sector technology developers produce almost all of the new technology purchased in the United States and around the world.


  • Purchasers and permitters of environmental technology need an independent, objective and high quality source of performance information in order to make informed decisions.


  • Vendors with innovative, better, faster, cheaper technologies need independent evaluation to penetrate a conservative, risk-avoiding environmental marketplace.

What are the Program Outputs to Date?

  • Private sector environmental technologies have been verified in such areas as drinking water systems for small communities, air pollution control technologies that reduce smog causing NOx and lower greenhouse gases, new technologies that lower emissions and costs for metal finishing shops and industrial coatings operations, and innovative monitoring technologies of all types.


  • EPA's independent Science Advisory Board stated in a recent report, "The scarcity of independent and credible technology information is one critical barrier to the use of innovative environmental technologies...Verification testing information provided by the ETV program fulfills an essential need of the environmental technology marketplace."

ETV Program Fact Sheet - June 2004 (PDF 419 KB, 2 pages). This pdf is not 508 compliant but will be soon.
ETV Program Homeland Security Fact Sheet - January 2004 (PDF 230 KB, 2 pages).
Current ETV Quarterly Report - April 2004 (PDF 790 KB, 8 pages). This pdf is not 508 compliant but will be soon.
Current ETV Quarterly Insert - April 2004 (PDF 173 KB, 3 pages). This pdf is not 508 compliant but will be soon.
"EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program: Raising Confidence in Innovation," article published in the Air & Waste Management Association's Magazine of Environmental Managers, EM, May 2004 (PDF 4.6 MB, 8 pages). This pdf is not 508 compliant but will be soon.
Greenhouse Gas Technology Center's Newsletter - "Greenhouse Gas Technology News" - April 2004 (PDF 335 KB, 6 pages) This pdf is not 508 compliant but will be soon.
Safe Buildings Monitoring and Detection Technology Effort's Newsletter - "The Detector" - July 2004 (PDF 243 KB, 2 pages) This pdf is not 508 compliant but will be soon.
Advanced Monitoring Systems (AMS) Center's Newsletter - "The Monitor" - September (PDF 271 KB, 2 pages) This pdf is not 508 compliant but will be soon.
Summer 2004 Edition of the NSF International's Newsletter - "WaterWorks"
EPA's Environmental Technology Opportunities Portal (ETOP) links you to programs that help fund development of new environmental technologies and offers information on existing environmental technologies.

 

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