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THE ETV P2 INNOVATIVE COATINGS AND COATING EQUIPMENT PROGRAM--AN UPDATE
Citation:
Napotnik, J. A. AND M Kosusko*. THE ETV P2 INNOVATIVE COATINGS AND COATING EQUIPMENT PROGRAM--AN UPDATE. Presented at A&WMA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 6/23-27/02.
Description:
The paper focuses on the Pollution Prevention (P2), Recycling, and Waste Treatment Systems Center of the EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program and, specifically, the P2 Innovating Coatings and Coating Equipment Program (CCEP) housed within the Center. The focus is on the history of the CCEP; steps of the verification process; completed verifications, success stories, and lessons learned; works in progress; and future works and goals. To help facilitate market penetration and use of innovating environmentally beneficial technologies, EPA initiated the ETV program in 1995. The Program is a voluntary project designed to provide companies the opportunity to obtain independent third-party testing of their products. Each verification test is unique and specially designed for each technology area but has the common overall goal of providing technology users with credible performance and environmental advantage data for a technology. As the end result of verification testing, the vendor is presented with a Verification Report and a Verification Statement. Representatives of EPA and its partner organization sign each Verification Statement, thereby attesting to the credibility of the data.