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SUPERFUND INNOVTIVE TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS FY 1997
Citation:
Gatchett*, A. SUPERFUND INNOVTIVE TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS FY 1997. EPA/540/R-98/503, 1998.
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Description:
The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program has successfully promoted the development, commercialization and implementation of innovative hazardous waste treatment technologies for more than 12 years. SITE offers a mechanism for conducting joint technology demonstration and evaluation projects at hazardous waste sites involving the private sector, EPA, and other federal and state agencies. The program provides environmental decision-makers with relevant data on new, viable remediation technologies that may have performance or cost advantages compared to conventional treatment technologies. Since the initiation of the SITE Program in 1986, cleanup of contaminated sites through the use of innovative technologies has resulted in a total inflated cost savings of over $680 million dollars. The SITE Program continues to earn increased recognition as a leader in advancing innovative technology development and commercialization. Through FY97, the SITE Program has successfully demonstrated 95 technologies, nine of which were completed during FY97, with four new innovative technologies evaluated in the field. Emphasis formerly placed on technologies requiring the removal of soil or groundwater (ex situ) is gravitating to in situ technologies that treat contamination in place. The SITE Program recognized this change and has emphasized the development of in situ technologies. Of the 21 ongoing to planned demonstrations, 15 are in situ, while only 6 are ex situ. SITE's Monitoring and Measurement Technologies (MMT) Program conducted demonstrations of four soil sampling technologies and two soil gas sampling technologies in FY97.