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EVALUATING TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES - QA APPROACHES IN THE USA AND GERMANY
Citation:
Vega*, A, R. Argus, H. F. Burkhard, AND S. Jorg. EVALUATING TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES - QA APPROACHES IN THE USA AND GERMANY. 7th International FZK/TNO Conference on Contaminated Soil, Leipzig, Germany, 9/18-22/00.
Description:
The US EPA and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research entered into a Bilateral Agreement in 1990 to gain a better understanding of each country's efforts in developing and demonstrating remedial technologies. Under Phase II of the Agreement, SITe Program quality management protocols were reviewed and used to develop a German equivalent, the DETAD. Both the US and German quality management protocols were then applied to five technology evaluations in the US and five technology evaluations in Germany. The SITE Program and DETAD quality management protocols yield data of known quality for demonstrations in each respective country. They can be defined as independent quality management systems for the evaluation of treatment technologies.