United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5102G)
EPA 542-F-99-009
May 1999
www.epa.gov/etv
www.clu-in.org
Environmental Technology
Verification (ETV) Program
Site Characterization and
Monitoring Technologies Pilot
ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
VERIFICATION PROGRAM AND THE SITE
CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING
TECHNOLOGIES PILOT
The Environmental Technology Verification
Program is a service of the Environmental
Protection Agency designed to accelerate the
development and commercialization of
improved environmental technology through
third party verification and reporting of
performance. The goal of ETV is to verify
the performance characteristics of commer-
cial-ready environmental technologies
through the evaluation of objective and
quality-assured data so that potential purchas
ers and permitters are provided with an
independent and credible assessment of the
technology that they are buying or permit-
ting. ETV is intended to expand the environ-
mental 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 environ-
mental marketplace for their consideration
and to assist them in making informed
technology decisions. ETV does not rank
technologies 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.
Visit the Pilot home page http://www.epa.gov/etv
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The program now operates twelve pilots covering a broad
range of environmental areas. ETV has begun 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
,g> these pilots, EPA utilizes the expertise of partner "verification
organization" to design efficient processes for conducting
performance 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 organizations oversee and report verification
activities based on testing and quality assurance protocols devel-
oped with input from all major stakeholder/customer groups associ-
ated with the technology area.
The Site Characterization and Monitoring Technologies (SCMT) Pilot is one of twelve pilots
operating under ETV. The U.S. EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory Environmental
Sciences Division in Las Vegas manages the pilot. Their partners (Verification Organizations)
are the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sandia National
Laboratories. The SCMT Pilot conducts verification testing of environmental characterization
and monitoring technologies. 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 verification process is an
Environmental Technology Verification Report (ETVR). The ETVR contains a Verification
Statement that is signed by EPA and the Verification Organization.
VERIFICATION PROCESS
Each technology demonstration follows a similar process that
includes the steps listed below.
«d> Identification of user-community needs
«d> Solicitation and selection of technology
«d> Planning of demonstration
«d> Field demonstration
«d> Reporting of results
«d> Information dissemination
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ICMtoMUfPORTS
Cone Penetrometer/Laser Induced Fluorescence
The Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System (SCAPS) LIF Sensor
and Support System
The Rapid Optical Screening Tool (ROST) LIF System for Screening of Petroleum
Hydrocarbons in Subsurface Soils
Field Portable Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometers
Field Portable GC/MS; Viking Instruments Corporation SpectraTrak™ 672
Field Portable GC/MS; Bruker-Franzen Analytical Systems, Inc. EM640™
Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers
Field Portable XRF Analyzer; Scitec MAP Spectrum Analyzer
Field Portable XRF Analyzer; HNU Systems SEFA-P Analyzer
Field Portable XRF Analyzer; TN 9000 and TN Lead Analyzer
Field Portable XRF Analyzer; MetorexX-MET920-MP
Field Portable XRF Analyzer; Metorex X-MET 920-P and X-MET 940
Field Portable XRF Analyzer; Niton XL Spectrum Analyzer
Field Analytical Methods for Measuring Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
EnviroGard PCB Test Kit; Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
4100 Vapor Detector; Electronic Sensor Technology
PCB in Soil Tube Assay; EnviroLogix, Inc.
RaPID Assay System for PCB Analysis; Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
L2000 PCB/Chloride Analyzer; Dexsil Corporation
D Tech PCB Test Kit; Strategic Diagnostics Inc.
PCB Immunoassay Kit; Hach Company
SOIL GAS/SOIL GAS SAMPLING TECHNOLOGIES
AMS Dual Tube Liner Sampler; Art's 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
Core Barrel Sampler; Simulprobe Technologies, Inc.
Large Bore Soil Sampler; Geoprobe Systems, Inc.
Well-head Monitoring/Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Water
Model 4100; Electronic Sensor Technology
HAPSITEwith Headspace Sampling Accessory; Inficon, Inc.
Type 1312 Multi-gas Monitor; InnovaAirTech Instruments
Voyager; Perkin-Elmer Corporation (Photovac Monitoring Instruments)
Scentograph Plus II; Sentex Systems, Inc.
EPA600-R-97-019
EPA600-R-97-020
EPA600-R-97-148
EPA600-R-97-149
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-
EPA600-R-
EPA600-R-
EPA600-R-
EPA600-R-
EPA600-R-
EPA600-R-
•98-113
•98-114
•98-173
•98-111
•98-109
•98-112
•98-110
EPA600-R-98-093
EPA600-R-98-091
EPA600-R-98-096
EPA600-R-98-095
EPA600-R-98-094
EPA600-R-98-092
EPA600-R-98-141
EPA600-R-98-142
EPA600-R-98-143
EPA600-R-98-144
EPA600-R-98-145
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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
UPCOMING VERIFICATION AREAS
Verification testing is under way, or soon to
be under way, in a number of environmental
monitoring technology categories that in-
clude:
°^> Groundwater Sampling
«^» TPH Test Kits
°^> Geophysics
°^> Explosives Test Kits
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE SITE
CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING
TECHNOLOGIES PILOT:
http://www.epa.gov/etv
or
http://clu-in.org/char1 .htm
or
http://www.ornl.gov/etv
Or Contact:
Wayne Einfeld
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: 423-576-8594
Fax: 423-576-7956
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: 702-798-2261
Email: koglin.eric@epa.gov
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