United States
                    Environmental Protection
                    Agency
Air and Energy Engineering
Research Laboratory
Research Triangle Park NC 27711
                    Research and Development
 EPA/600/S9-90/017  July 1990
&EPA           Project  Summary
                      Control  Technology  Center,
                      1989,  A Year of  Growth  and  a
                      Promising  Future
                      Charles H. Darvin
                     The full report documents  the
                    activity of EPA's Control Technology
                    Center (CTC) between October 1988
                    and September 1989. It discusses the
                    program's history,  its  growth during
                    fiscal year 1989 (FY89), and its plans
                    for the future.
                     This Project  Summary  was
                    developed by EPA's Air  and Energy
                    Engineering  Research  Laboratory,
                    Research  Triangle  Park, NC,  to
                    announce key findings of the research
                    project that is fully documented in a
                    separate report of the same title (see
                    Project Report ordering information at
                    back).

                    Introduction
                     In June 1985, the  Environmental
                    Protection  Agency (EPA) announced a
                    strategy to reduce public  exposure to
                    toxic air pollutants in the ambient air. The
                    strategy  called for  state  and  local
                    authorities to  take  on  additional
                    regulatory  roles,  with EPA providing
                    technical and financial assistance to their
                    efforts.  As a result of this shift in
                    responsibility, EPA's Office of Research
                    and Development  (ORD), Office  of  Air
                    Quality  Planning  and  Standards
                    (OAQPS), and  Center for Environmental
                    Research Information  (CERI) developed
                    and implemented the Control Technology
                    Center {(CTC). The CTC is an innovative
                    technical assistance  program for state
                    and local  air  pollution agencies  and
                    EPA's  Regional Offices. The program
                    includes not only expertise on air toxics
                    but also  assistance  in  evaluating
                    emission  sources  and in control
                    technology assessments associated with
                    criteria pollutants,  including  particulate
matter,  oxides of  sulfur and  nitrogen,
carbon monoxide, lead,  PM10, and
volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Even
though  the  CTC  is  not  EPA's only
technical assistance effort for state and
local agencies, it is unique in its structure
which  is described in the report. The
CTC is  designed to be flexible so that it
can accommodate identified  needs  as
they arise and respond quickly to those
needs and requests for assistance.
CTC Program
  The services provided by the CTC are
of three types: telephone HOTLINE calls,
direct engineering  assistance, and
technical guidance. The CTC HOTLINE is
a telephone number that state and local
agencies can call for easy access to EPA
personnel  who can  provide prompt
assistance in a variety of ways including
consultations,  references  to pertinent
literature, and access  to EPA technical
data and analyses. Direct engineering
assistance projects  are  short  term
(typically 3  months  or less),  which
provide technical assistance to individual
state or local  agencies without regard to
the  projects'  national  utility.  They are
specific  in  nature and may not be
applicable to problems in other locations.
Technical guidance projects  are  long-
term (up to a year), broad in scope, and
with national applications and impacts.
  In  FY89 the  CTC  experienced
significant growth.  It  received over 800
calls for  assistance representing a 50%
increase  in requests over FY88.  Over
1000 requests for documents were filled.
To further expand the scope of the CTC,
outreach activities  were  also  completed

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at three EPA regional offices and at least
two stale agencies.
  The CTC issues a report at the end of
each fiscal year to discuss the CTC's
     activities  for  the year.  This  report
     documents  the activity  of  the CTC
     between October  1988 and  September
     1989. The report discusses the history of
the program, its growth during fiscal year
1989 (FY89), and its plans for the future.
 7/J9 EPA author, Charles Darvln (also the EPA Project Officer, see below), is with
   Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental
   Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.
 The complete report, entitled "Control Technology Center,  1989, A Year of Growth
   and a Promising Future," (Order No. PB90 219 4291 AS;  Cost: $15.00, subject to
   change) will be available only from:
        National Technical Information Service
        5285 Port Royal Road
        Springfield. VA 22161
        Telephone: 703-487-4650
 The EPA Project Officer can be contacted at:	~~~	   ~  	
        Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory
        U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
        Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
     United States
     Environmental Protection
     Agency
Center for Environmental Research
Information
Cincinnati OH 45268
     Official Business
     Penally for Private Use $300
     EPA/800/S9-90/017

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