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HUNT, C. D., D. C. TANNIS, T. G. STEVEN, R. M. FREDERICK, AND R. A. EVERETT. Verifying Ballast Water Treatment Performance. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 39(15):321A–328A, (2005).

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NSF International, Battelle, and U.S. Coast Guard are jointly developing a protocol for verifying the technical performance of commercially available technologies designed to treat ship ballast water for potentially invasive species. The protocol is being developed under the EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program, which will also conduct verification tests of technologies according to the protocol. The protocol was developed with extensive input from a ballast water stakeholder group and a technical panel that included representatives of the developing ballast water treatment industry, federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, and scientists involved in the ballast water issue. Many topics including: appropriate volumes to treat; duration of treatment system tests; species and abundances to use for testing; use of surrogate versus ambient species; biological measurements of viability; water quality conditions for testing; statistical design; and test facility design and operation are covered in the protocol. A pilot test of the verification protocol is planned at the Naval Research Laboratory's Key West, Florida facility in 2005.

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