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ETO - ENGINEERING TRADE-OFFS (SYSTEMS ANALYSIS BRANCH, SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY DIVISION, NRMRL)
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The ETO - Engineering Trade-Offs program is to develop a new, integrated decision-making approach to compare/contrast two or more states of being: a benchmark and an alternative, a change in a production process, alternative processes or products. ETO highlights the difference in 1) engineering performance; 2) economic/cost efficiency; and 3) potential environmental burdens. ETO includes an assessment of the potential social resistance to a change. The major projects of the ETO Program are (1) ETO Methodology Development, (2) Mercury Initiative, and (3) Physical Vapor Deposition of Tantalum on Gun Barrel Steel. For more information on this program, visit the website at http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/std/sab/ETO.htm. To access directly from this website, click on downloads on the navigation bar.