&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5102G)
EPA 542-F-OO-018
December 2000
www.epa.gov/etv
www.clu-in.org
Environmental Technology
Verification (ETV) Program
Site Characterization and
Monitoring Technologies Center
ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
VERIFICATION PROGRAM AND THE SITE
CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING
TECHNOLOGIES CENTER
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Envi-
ronmental Technology Verification Program is
designed to accelerate the development and commer-
cializationof improved environmentaltechnology
through third-party verification and reporting of
performance. The goal of ETV is to verify the
performance characteristics of commercial-ready
environmental technologies through the evaluation of
objective and quality-assured data. This verification
will provide purchasers and permitters with an
independent and credible assessment of the technol-
ogy that they are buying or permitting. ETV is
intended to expand the environmental technology
choices of public and private decision-makers, both in
our country and abroad.
ETV is a voluntary program that seeks to make
objective performance information available to all of
the actors in the environmental marketplace for their
consideration and to assist them in making informed
technology decisions. ETV does not rank technolo-
gies nor compare their performance, label or list
technologies as acceptable or unacceptable, nor seek
to determine "best available technology", nor approve
or disapprove technologies. The program does not
evaluate technologies at the bench- or pilot-scale and
does not conduct or support research.
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The program now operates ten centers covering a
broad range of environmental areas. ETV began with
a 5-year pilot phase (1995-2000) to test a wide range
of partner and procedural alternatives in various pilot
areas, as well as the true market demand for and
response to such a program. In these pilots, EPA
utilized the expertise of partner "verification organiza-
tions" to design efficient processes for conducting
verification tests of innovative technologies. EPA has
selected its partners from
both the public and private
sectors including Federal
laboratories, states,
industry consortia, and
private sector facilities.
Verification organiza-
tions oversee and
report verification
activities based on
testing and quality
assurance proto-
cols developed
with input from all
major stakeholder/customer groups
associated with the technology area.
The Site Characterization and Monitoring Technolo-
gies (SCMT) Center is one often centers operating
under ETV. The U.S. EPA National Exposure
Research Laboratory, Environmental Sciences
Division in Las Vegas manages the center. Their
partner verification organizations are the U.S. De-
partment of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
and Sandia National Laboratories. The SCMT Center
Visit the Center home page http://www.epa.gov/etv/02/02_main.htm
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conducts verification testing of environmental charac-
terization and monitoringtechnologies. Commercial-
ready technologies are evaluated to provide potential
technology users and permitters with an independent
and credible assessment of technology performance.
The verification process includes the development of
formal test protocols, on-site field testing, and data
evaluation. One of the end products of the verifica-
tion process is an Environmental Techno logy Verifi-
cation Report (ETVR). The ETVR contains a
Verification Statement that is signed by EPA and the
Verification Organization.
VERIFICATION PROCESS
Each technology verification test follows a similar
process that includes the steps listed below.
«d> Identification of user-community needs
«d> Solicitation and selection of technology
«^» Planning of demonstration
«^» Field demonstration
«d* Reporting of results
<>& Informationdissemination
Cone Penetrometer-Deployed Sensors
The Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System (SCAPS) LI F
Sensor and Support System; U.S. Navy, SPAWAR
The Rapid Optical Saeening Tool (ROST) LI F System for Screening of Petroleum
Hydrocarbons in Subsurface Soils; Fugro Geosciences, Inc.
Decision Support Systems
ArcVTewGIS Version 3.1; ESRI, Inc.
SitePro™ Version 3.0; Environmental Software, Inc.
Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA); University of Tennessee
Research Corporation
Groundwaterf:X; Decision FX, Inc.
EPA600-R-97-019
EPA600-R-97-020
EPA600-R-99-Q94
EPA600-R-99-093
EPA600-R-00-036
EPA600-R-00-037
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Sampling FX\ Decision FX, Inc.
Environmental Visualization System Pro (EVS-PRO); CTech Development
Corporation
Explosives Detection Technology
GC-IONSCAN™; Barringer Instruments
FAST2000™; Research International, Inc.
Field Portable Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometers
SpectraTrak™ 672; Viking Instruments Corporation
EM640™; Bruker-Franzen Analytical Systems, Inc.
HAPSITEwith Headspace Sampling Accessory; Inficon, Inc.
Field Portable Gas Chromatographs
Model 4100 Vapor Detector; Electronic Sensor Technology (PCBs)
Model 4100 Vapor Detector; Electronic Sensor Technology (VOCs)
Voyager (GC/ECD); Perkin-Elmer Corporation (Photovac Monitoring Instilments)
Scentograph Plus II; Sentex Systems, Inc.
Multi-Gas IR Monitor
Type 1312 Multi-gas Monitor; Innova AirTech Instruments
Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers
Scitec MAP Spectrum Analyzer; EDAX Portable Products (formerly Scitec, Inc.)
SEFA-P Analyzer; HNU Systems, Inc.
TN 9000 and TNLead Analyzer; KeyexSpectrace Instruments __
X-MET920-MP; Metorex, Ina
X-MET920-PandX-MET940; Metorex, Inc.
XL Spectrum Analyzer; Niton Corporation
Immunoassay Test Kits
EnviroGard PCB Test Kit; Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
PCB in Soil Tube Assay; EnviroLogix, Inc.
RaPID Assay System for PCB Analysis; Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
D Tech PCB Test Kit; Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
PCB Immunoassay Kit; Hach Company
Ion Selective Electrode
L2000 PCB/Chloride Analyzer Dexsil Corporation
Soil Gas/Soil Gas Sampling Technologies
AMS Dual Tube Liner Sampler; Arts Manufacturing and Supply
JMC Environmentalist's Subsoil Probe; Clements Associates, Inc.
EMFLUXSoil Investigation System; Quadrel Services, Inc.
Gore-Sorber Screening Survey Passive Soil Gas Sampling System;
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Core Barrel Sampler; Simulprobe Technologies, Inc.
Large Bore Soil Sampler; Geoprobe Systems, Inc.
Groundwater Sampling Technologies
Kabis Sampler Models I and II; Sibak Industries Ltd., Inc.
Well Wizard Dedicated Sampling System; QED Environmental Systems, Inc.
Multiprobe 100; Surge Environmental Technologies
Micro-Flo Bladder Pump Model 57400; GeoLog, Inc.
SampEase Bladder Pump; Clean Environment Equipment
GORE-SORBER Water Quality Monitoring; W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
EPA600-R-QO-038
EPA600-R-00-047
EPA600-R-00-046
EPA600-R-00-Q45
EPA600-R-97-148
EPA600-R-97-149
EPA600-R-98-142
EPA600-R-98-114
EPA600-R-98-141
EPA600-R-98-144
EPA600-R-98-145
EPA600-R-98-143
EPA600-R-97-147
EPA600-R-97-144
EPA600-R-97-145
EPA600-R-97-151
EPA600-R-97-146
EPA600-R-97-150
EPA600-R-98-113
EPA600-R-98-173
EPA600-R-98-111
EPA600-R-98-112
EPA600-R-98-110
EPA600-R-98-109
EPA600-R-98-093
EPA600-R-98-091
EPA600-R-98-096
EPA600-R-98-Q95
EPA600-R-98-094
EPA600-R-98-092
EPA600-R-00-Q54
EPA600-R-00-062
EPA600-R-00-074
EPA600-R-00-075
EPA600-R-00-078
EPA600-R-00-091
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To OBTAIN HARD COPIES, CONTACT:
National Service Center for
Environmental Publications
P.O. Box 42419
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Phone: 1-800-490-9198
Fax: 1-513-489-8695
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncepi
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE
SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND
MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES
CENTER:
http://www.epa.gov/
etv
or
http://www.ornl.gov/etv
Or Contact:
Wayne Elnfeld
Sandia National Laboratories
PO Box 5800, MS 0755
Albuquerque, NM 87175-0755
Phone: 505-845-8314
Fax: 505-844-0968
Email: weinfel@sandia.gov
Roger Jenkins
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008, MS 6120
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6120
Phone: 865-574-4871
Fax: 865-576-7956
Email: jenkinsra@ornl.gov
Eric Koglin
EPA Project Officer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Exposure Research Laboratory
PO Box 93478
Las Vegas, NV 89193-3478
Phone: 702-798-2432
Fax: 702-798-2107
Email: koglin.eric@epa.gov
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