The EPA'*
 Environmental
 Technology
 Verification Program
              Water Quality  Protection Center
What is ETV?

The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) established the
Environmental Technology Verification
(ETV) Program in 1995 to verify the
performance of innovative technical
solutions to problems that threaten
human health or the environment.

ETV's mission is to accelerate the use
of new environmental technologies in
the domestic and international
marketplaces.

ETV provides third-party, quality-
assured performance data so buyers and
users of environmental technologies
can make informed decisions about the
purchase and application of these
technologies.

Various groups are actively involved in
ETV, including stakeholders,
technology buyers and users, vendors,
permitters, technology experts,
consulting engineers, and investment
companies.

All test protocols, test plans,
verification reports, and verification
statements are available on the ETV
web site at http://www.epa.gov/etv.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's partner in the
ETV Water Quality Protection (WQP) Center is NSF
International, a not-for-profit, non-governmental
organization providing public health and safety-based risk
management solutions and protection of the environment.
The goal of the WQP Center is to verify commercial -ready
environmental technologies that protect ground- and
surface waters from contamination. Under the Center,
technologies are evaluated by a third party organization,
following technically sound test procedures, appropriate
QA/QC, and a managed process, to provide purchasers,
specifiers and permitters with credible and relevant data.

Verification protocols are developed for specific technology
areas  following  an open  process  with  broad-based
stakeholder input. The protocols then serve as templates for
developing test plans  for  the evaluation of individual
technologies at specific locations.   Verification reports
detailing the results of the technology evaluations are made
publicly available to assist  in marketing, purchase and
permitting of the  technologies.  Verification statements,
executive summaries of each verification test, are also
provided.

Center technologies fall into two main categories:
       Source Water Protection Technologies
       Wet Weather Flow Technologies
Information on the WQP Center, such as testing activities,
final verification reports and statements, meeting
announcements, and a current list of vendors participating
in the program, may be found on the NSF and EPA ETV
web sites: www.nsf.org/etv and www . epa. gov/etv .

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     Decentralized Wastewater Treatment
                 Technologies
       Wastewater Treatment Technologies
       Nutrient Reduction Technologies
      Watershed Protection Technologies
        Ballast Water Treatment Technologies
        In-Drain Treatment Technologies
        Mercury Amalgam Removal Technologies
        Solids Separators for Flushed Swine
        Waste
        UV Disinfection Technologies for
      Urban Infrastructure Technologies
        secondary effluent and reuse applications
        Coatings
       Wet Weather Flow Technologies
        Grouts
    •   Storm water Treatment Devices
    •   High-Rate Disinfection (Induction Mixers
        and UV Disinfection)
    •   High-Rate Separation
    •   Flowmeters
    •   Urban Runoff Models
      The Triton TS-5000 separator, the first of three
      solids separation technologies to be evaluated
      through the Water Quality Protection Center for
      the treatment of flushed swine waste.
     Zebra mussels are one example of aquatic
     nuisance species for which ballast water
     treatment technologies will be evaluated.
Contacts:
Tom Stevens
NSF International
789 Dixboro Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Ray Frederick
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2890 Woodbridge Ave. (MS-104)
Edison, NJ 08837-3679
                                          February 2005

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