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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION PROGRAM - ADVANCED MONITORING SYSTEMS OUTREACH
Citation:
Fuerst, R G. AND E T. Hunike. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION PROGRAM - ADVANCED MONITORING SYSTEMS OUTREACH. Presented at EPA/AWMA International Symposium on the Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, Research Triangle Park, NC, September 12-14, 2000.
Impact/Purpose:
The overall objective of the ETV Program is to accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace by identifying the environmental performance characteristics of commercial-ready technology through the evaluation of objective and quality assured data. This provides the potential purchasers and permitters with an independent and credible assessment of what they are buying and/or permitting. The AMS Center has received funding to performance verify monitoring technologies relevant for homeland security.
Description:
Technology performance information must be effectively communicated if it is to be of value to prospective users. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has provided funding to the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) program to provide a plan to verify the environmental performance characteristics of commercial-ready technologies and make that information available to the public. Since 1995 twelve individual technology areas have been chosen to cover the major technology areas needing advanced performance information. With the collection and evaluation of objective and quality assured data through third-party verification, ETV can provide potential buyers and regulators of technology with an independent and credible assessment of the performance of advanced technologies.
One of the ways ETV assures the quality of this program is through public outreach by contact with public stakeholders committees, the technology vendor community, and with State and Regional Outreach Activities. ETV provides documents of outreach activities through their Internet website including information such as: fact sheets describing the goal and purpose of the ETV program (including one in Spanish to provide some NAFTA countries with information about ETV); Memorandum of Understandings outlining mutual assistance with other entities, and a listing of previously verified technologies and those presently planned for or undergoing verification. The ETV website (www.epa.gov/etv) lists links with partner organizations who act as the third party verification organizations and also includes recent articles and press releases concerning ETV verification. International Outreach Activities on the website identifies the foreign countries that were hosted by individual pilots during various verification tests.
The ETV's Advanced Monitoring Systems (AMS) pilot, managed by the National Exposure Research Laboratory, covers one of the twelve pilot areas. The AMS pilot provides as part of its public Internet outreach: a Fact Sheet describing the specific operations of the pilot; a monthly newsletter discussing the current and future plans of the pilot's progress; technology profiles identifying and describing the verified technologies; stakeholder committee members and their affiliations; announcements of public meetings and summaries of previous meetings; and, the testing Protocols with the resulting verification statements and summaries in their entirety. All public information of the Advanced Monitoring Systems pilot can be located at Website address: www.epa.gov/etv/07/07_main.
This work has been funded fully or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under an assistance agreement (CR 826215) to Battelle Memorial Institute. It has been subjected to Agency review and approved for publication.