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EPA/600/K-96/003
February 1997
Environmental Technology
Verification Program
Verification Strategy
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20460
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Foreword
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of
Research and Development (ORD) is publishing this document,
Verification Strategy, to report the goals, operating principles, and future
plans of the newly created Environmental Technology Verification
Program (ETV). ETV is intended to expand the environmental technology
choices of public and private decision makers, both in our country and
abroad. The use of new technologies will allow faster and more thorough
pollution prevention, control, cleanup, and monitoring, while bringing the
overall cost of regulatory compliance down.
Evaluations of promising new technologies by ETV should be
useful to a broad array of organizations:
•	Buyers of technology, and the consulting engineering community
that advises them, who need an objective source of data to make
informed purchasing decisions.
•	Permitters at state, local and federal level who must decide on
which technologies to allow into use.
•	The financial community that must determine the level of risk
involved in supporting innovative technology developers.
•	Vendors who want to market their products on a level
playing field of objectively acquired data.
The challenges of the next three years will be substantial as we
produce and broadly distribute credible data that are products of ETV.
Meeting these challenges will ensure that the environment, the economy,
and the marketplace benefit from the steady stream of scientific and
technological innovation this program will encourage.
Dr. Robert J. Huggett
Assistant Administrator
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Contents
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Foreword
Background
Important Definitions
Operating Principles
ETV Pilot Process
Selection Criteria for ETV Pilot Projects
Program Implementation to Date
ETV Program Vision and Projected Development Scenario
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Background
Throughout its history, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has evaluated technologies to determine their effectiveness in
monitoring, preventing, controlling, and cleaning up pollution. Since the
early 1990s, however, numerous government and private groups have
identified the lack of an organized and ongoing program to produce
independent, credible performance data as a major impediment to the
development and use of innovative environmental technology. Such data
are needed by technology buyers and permitters both at home and abroad
to make informed technology decisions. Because of this broad input, the
President's environmental technology strategy, Bridge to a Sustainable
Future, and the Vice President's National Performance Review, contain
initiatives for an EPA program to accelerate the development of
environmental technology through objective verification and reporting of
technology performance. In 1994, EPA's Office of Research and Develop-
ment formed a workgroup to plan the implementation of the Environmental
Technology Verification Program (ETV). The workgroup produced a
Verification White Paper that guided the initial stages of the program. This
document, Verification Strategy, updates the earlier paper based upon the
evolution of the program over the last two years, it outlines the operating
principles and implementation activities that are shaping the program, as
well as the challenges that are emerging and the decisions that must be
addressed in the future. The program will continue to be modified through
input from all parties having a stake in environmental technology, through
further operational experience, and through formal evaluation of the
program.
The goal of ETV, which remains unchanged, is to verify the
environmental performance characteristics of commercial-ready tech-
nology through the evaluation of objective and quality assured data, so
that potential purchasers and permitters are provided with an independent
and credible assessment of what they are buying and permitting.
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Important Definitions
A clear definition of the words "evaluate" and "verify", along with
the word "certify", is important to establish at the outset of the program.
The technology development community, the regulated community, and
those charged with executing environmental standards at all levels of
government require a precise understanding of what EPA means and
does not mean by the activities to be undertaken through ETV.
EPA intends to sponsor the evaluation of environmental technologies
through adequate testing and verify that they perform at the levels
reported. By evaluate and verify we mean:
Evaluate / Evaluation
To carefully examine and judge the efficacy of a technology; to
submit technologies for testing under conditions of observation and
analysis; syn., measure, estimate, classify, test.
Verify / Verification
To establish or prove the truth of the performance of a technology
under specific, predetermined criteria or protocols and adequate
data quality assurance procedures; syn., confirm, corroborate,
substantiate, validate.
EPA does not intend to certify that a technology will always, or
under circumstances other than those used in testing, operate at the
levels verified. By certify we mean:
Certify / Certification
To guarantee a technology as meeting a standard or performance
criteria into the future; syn., ensure, warrant, guarantee.
EPA understands that the word certify can have a variety of
meanings, but the Agency believes that the above definition is the one
most commonly understood. Misuse of the term, could cause confusion
among the public.
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Operating Principles
Several important operating principles have defined the basic ETV
program structure and remain fundamental to its operation. These are
briefly outlined below.
1.	Performance Evaluation Goal
Under ETV, environmental technologies are evaluated to ascertain and
report their performance characteristics. EPA and its partners will not
seek to determine regulatory compliance; will not rank technologies or
compare their performance; will not label or list technologies as
acceptable or unacceptable; and will not seek to determine "best
available technology" in any form. In general, the Agency will avoid all
potential pathways to picking "winners and losers". The goal of the
program is to make objective performance information available to all
of the actors in the environmental marketplace for their consideration
and decision making.
2.	Commercial-Ready Technologies
The ETV program is a service of EPA to the domestic and international
marketplace in order to encourage rapid acceptance and
implementation of improved environmental technology. ETV, therefore,
focuses its resources on technologies that are either in, or ready for,
full-scale commercialization. The program does not evaluate
technologies at the pilot or bench scale and does not conduct or
support research. Participation in ETV is completely voluntary.
3.	Third-Party Verification Organizations
ETV leverages the capacity, expertise, and existing facilities of others
through third-party partnerships in order to achieve universal coverage
for all technology types as rapidly as possible. Third-party verification
organizations are chosen from the both the public and private sector,
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including states, universities, associations, business consortia, private
testing firms, and federal laboratories. EPA designs and conducts
auditing and oversight procedures of these organizations, as
appropriate, to assure the credibility of the process and data. In order
to determine if EPA participation is important to the commercialization
process, ETV is testing the option of one totally unstructured and
independent, private sector pilot in which EPA's role will be solely
fiduciary. In addition, the Agency will continue to publish the results of
commercial-ready technology evaluations that it conducts in the normal
course of its business.
4.	Pilot Phase
The program will begin with a three to five year pilot phase to test a
wide range of partner and procedural alternatives, as well as the true
market demand for and response to such a program. Throughout the
pilot period, EPA and its partners will operate in a flexible and creative
manner in order to identify new and efficient methods to verify
environmental technologies, while maintaining the highest credibility
standards. The operational objective will be to actively look for ways to
optimize procedures without compromising quality. The ultimate
objective of the pilot phase is to design and implement a permanent
verification capacity and program within EPA by 2000, should the
evaluation of the effectiveness of the program warrant it.
5.	Pilot Technology Areas
ETV has begun with pilots in narrow technology areas in each of the
major environmental media and will expand as appropriate, based on
market forces, availability of resources, and the willingness of the
marketplace to pay for third-party verification. For example, the
drinking water technology pilot has started with a focus on microbial
and particulate contaminants, and disinfection byproducts in small
systems (less than 3300 users), an obvious and very large domestic
and international market with pressing environmental problems. In
fiscal year 1997 (FY97), the program will be expanded to the wider
area of nitrates and synthetic organic chemicals and pesticides in all
drinking water systems. Success in particular technology areas will
allow the program to have a "pump-priming" effect to bring new
technologies to the marketplace. Selection criteria for ETV pilot
programs and other verification focus areas are discussed in a
subsequent section of this paper.
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6.	Stakeholder Groups
ETV is guided and shaped by using the expertise of appropriate
stakeholder groups in all aspects of the program. These groups consist
of representatives of all verification customer groups: buyers and users
of technology, developers and vendors, and, most importantly,
technology "enablers", i.e., the consulting engineering community that
recommends technology alternatives to purchasers, and the state
permitters and regulators who allow it to be used. Stakeholder groups
must be unique to each technology area in order to capture the
important individual aspects of the different environmental media and
to get buy-in from affected groups. For example, state drinking water
permitters are necessary to participate in development of testing
protocols for Cryptosporidium; air pollution regulators are needed to
evaluate innovative compliance monitoring devices; metal production
parts manufacturers need to help design testing procedures for new
coating compounds. In general, the role of stakeholders will be to
assist in the development of procedures and protocols, prioritize types
of technologies to be verified, review all important documents emerging
from the pilot, assist in defining and conducting outreach activities
appropriate to the particular area, and, finally, to serve as information
conduits to the particular constituencies that they represent. As of June
1996, over 80 individuals are serving in the three stakeholder groups
formed to date.
7.	Private Sector Funding
Over the three to five year pilot phase of the program, the costs of
verifying technologies in many pilots will move from a primarily
government funded effort to a primarily private sector funded effort. At
least two pilots will be vendor supported from the beginning. The
original goal, as articulated in the 1994 strategy, called for complete
private sector sponsorship within three years. A recent review (1995) of
the program by a distinguished panel of outside experts convened by
the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) concluded that such a goal
was probably not achievable in so short a time-frame (they suggested
five to eight years) and that some level of government support (10 to
20% of ongoing costs) would remain necessary to keep the activity
viable. Conclusions on this issue will have to be reached as data
emerge on the economic value-added of the program and the level of
cost that the private sector is willing to bear in the various technology
sectors.
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8.	Pilot Evaluation and Program Decisions
The Agency will collect data on operational parameters, e.g., number
of participants; cost and time required to perform tests and report
results, and on outcomes, e.g., use of data by the states and public;
sales reported by vendors, in order to evaluate all aspects of the
program. EPA will use this information to make long-term
recommendations to the Congress on the future and shape of the
program in December 1998. Among the choices at that time will be the
formulation of a permanent, broad scale program; the narrowing of
efforts to certain areas in which ETV appears to be effective; or the
discontinuance of verification efforts. The latter conclusion could be
reached either because state regulators/permit writers and the
technology innovation industry are not assisted by ETV or because the
cost of verification proves to be prohibitive.
9.	Outreach and Information Diffusion
As was pointed out by the SAB in its 1995 review of ETV, verification
alone will not move better, cheaper, faster technologies to success in
the marketplace. Substantive and substantial interface with the
permitters of environmental technology (primarily at the state level) will
be necessary to have any chance of rapidly implementing innovative
approaches. To date, the outreach activities of the program have been
limited to assuring substantial state representation on the Stakeholder
Groups that are designing the protocols and procedures for each pilot;
developing informational fact sheets about the program; and placing a
Web page on the Internet. In 1997, the Agency intends to develop an
overarching outreach strategy with the help of a "corporate board" of
major organizations in the technology area, e.g., National Governors
Association, Western Governors Association, Environmental Council of
the States, National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, appropriate
corporations, and others. State permitter training, a national
conference and other efforts will be included.
10.	Market Gap Definition
Lastly, EPA will track applications and expressions of interest on the
part of technology developers who come to all parts of the Agency that
do not fit into the present suite of verification activities. This universe
will be characterized during the initial stages of the pilot period and a
strategy to address gaps will be developed.
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ETV Pilot Process
Although a wide degree of flexibility will characterize the pilot
projects (see above), each ETV pilot generally will go through two periods
of development: an organizational phase and an operational phase (see
Figure 1).
Figure 1. ETV Pilot Process
Organization Phase
Operations Phase
Verification Organization (VO)
Selected
(EPA)
Stakeholder Groups
Formulated
(EPA/VO)
Technologies Prioritized
and
Generic Protocols
Developed
(EPA/VO/Stakeholders)
Open Solicitation
(VO)
Generic/Tailored Test Plans
(Developer/VO)
Testing by VO
OR
Testing by Developer
(With VO Oversight)
QA Evaluation
(EPA/VO)
QA Evaluation
(VO)
Verification Report
(EPA/VO)
Verification Report
(VO)
Information Diffusion
(EPA/Stakeholders)
Information Diffusion
(Vendors)
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Organizational Phase
During the organizational phase, EPA will select one or more partner
organizations to oversee and conduct verification activities. This
important step will usually occur through an open solicitation process,
although some exceptions will be appropriate. All partner proposals will
be peer reviewed. EPA and its partner(s) will then select approximately
25 appropriate participants for the Stakeholder Group (see #6) that will
guide the progress of the program. EPA may formulate the
Stakeholders Group prior to selecting the partner organization if the
procurement process is protracted. Stakeholder Groups will then begin
the important process of establishing priorities and defining procedures
and protocols appropriate to that particular type of environmental
technology and customer group.
Operational Phase
Once the basic building blocks of the program are in place, actual
verification activities begin (these steps will not always be strictly
sequential). Verification activities in each technology area will be
announced in the Commerce Business Daily and other appropriate
publications to encourage maximal participation by technology
developers, and to assure a level playing field. Test plans will be
developed with the participation of developers and tests conducted by
independent third parties (either the verification organization or other
testing organizations approved by the verification organization).
Appropriate quality assurance procedures will be incorporated into all
aspects of the project and reports will be peer reviewed. Verification
statements of three to five pages, based on the performance data
contained in the reports, will be issued by EPA and appear on the ETV
Internet Web page. Other outreach activities, as defined by the
Stakeholder Group, such as state permitter training, will be conducted.
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Selection Criteria for ETV Pilot Projects
The selection of verification pilot programs and other ETV
verification activities to be carried out under the program is critical to its
ultimate success. The ETV pilot programs are designed to meet the needs
of the many stakeholders in environmental technology, while allowing EPA
to experiment with a variety of procedures and partnership arrangements
to determine the optimal form of program implementation. The following
criteria are being used to choose ETV verification pilots and other
verification activities. The first three criteria are applied in cascading order,
i.e., each pilot must pass the previous criterion in order to go on to the
next.
1.	Address Important Environmental Needs
All programs conducted by the EPA have environmental improvement
and protection as their ultimate objective. It is particularly important
that this program, which is designed to assist the environmental
technology industry, select pilot verification activities that have clear
and positive environmental benefits. Such benefits may improve the
environment by achieving higher levels of pollution reduction or by
accelerating the rate of technology implementation through lower cost
or simplified operation.
2.	Present Substantial Business Opportunities for the Private
Sector
Pilot areas selected will have clear market niches, both domestically
and internationally, that present the potential for a substantial increase
in technology sales and use. Although voluntary environmental
improvement technologies, e.g., indoor air filtration systems, and
existing regulatory program technologies, e.g., hazardous waste
monitoring devices, are of interest to the program, particular attention
will be paid to technology areas that stress the Agency's commitment
to pollution prevention or address upcoming regulatory requirements
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and deadlines that present obvious and major opportunities for
innovation and increased conomic activity.
3.	Involve Multiple Developers and Vendors
To clearly demonstrate the potential of a successful verification
program, the ETV pilots must benefit the largest possible number of
technology developers and users. Pilot programs will focus on areas in
which a number of technologies and companies are active.
The last two criteria are programmatic and allow the Agency to test
operating program parameters in the pilot phase.
4.	Address the Full Range of Environmental Media
Assuring that all major environmental media and program areas are
included in the pilots will allow ETV to begin interaction with interested
parties, e.g., technology developers, technology buyers, regulation
writers and state permitters, across a broad range of environmental
areas. This will assist the program to identify particularly fruitful
technology focus areas for the future, spread the word about the EPA
verification function widely, identify regulatory barriers that inhibit the
use of verified technologies, and assist developers across a wide
spectrum of technology.
5.	Test a Variety of Verification Organization Types
As described above, EPA is interested in evaluating all possible
verification organization alternatives, including federal government
laboratories, state verification programs, universities, industry
associations, independent testing organizations, and developer
conducted testing (with verification organization or EPA oversight).
Pilot programs selected are expected to cover all of these alternatives.
Table 1 contains the application of these criteria to the pilots that
were selected for implementation in FY96 using FY95 funds. Table 2
contains those that have recently been approved (8/16/96) for
implementation in FY97 using FY96 funds.
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Table 1. Selection Criteria and Customer Drivers —
ETV FY95 Pilots
Five Selection
Criteria and Customers
Small Package
Drinking Water
Systems
P2 (Pollution Prevention)/
Waste Treatment Systems
Site
Characterization
and Monitoring
Technologies
Indoor Air
Products
Independent
Entity
(See page 12)
1. Address Important
Environmental Needs
Cryptosporidium
Other DW problems
Industrial waste
reduction
Lower cost of site
characterization
and monitoring
Toxic compounds
& biocontaminants
in the indoor
environment
Unknown
2. Present Substantial
Business Opportunities
to the Private Sector
Thousands of
communities
worldwide
Hundreds of
companies
Superfund sites,
Brownfields
Thousands of
offices, homes
Assumed
3. Involve Multiple
Developers and Vendors
Numerous
40 applicants to
first solicitation
Growing universe
Hundreds of
products
Assumed
4. Address Full Range of
Environmental Media
Drinking water
P2/waste
treatment
Remediation
Air
Unknown
5. Test Variety of
Verification Organization
Types and Processes
Private sector
State
DOE, Federal
Laboratories
Private sector,
university
Private
sector
association
Targeted Customers
State regulators;
small communities
CSI (Common Sense
Initiative) industries
Federal & state
regulators
Consumers,
consulting
engineers, industry
Unknown
Table 2. Selection Criteria and Customer Drivers — ETV FY96 Pilots
Five Selection
Criteria and
Customers
Advanced Monitoring
Systems
Air Pollution Control
Technologies
Wet Weather Flow
Technologies
P2 (Pollution Prevention)
Coatings and Coating
Equipment
1. Address Important
Environmental Needs
Basic to regulatory
reinvention
Needed to implement
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Leading cause of
water quality
impairment. Clean
Water Act (CWA)
Pollution prevention
for Volatile Organic
Compounds (VOCs), CAA,
others
2. Present Substantial
Business Opportunities to
the Private Sector
Regulatory reinvention
growing area of
environmental focus
Thousands of
businesses in
regulated universe
Over 1 M businesses,
thousands of
municipalities
Large number of
small businesses use
coatings
3. Involve Multiple
Developers and Vendors
Dozens of new
technologies emerging
Hundreds of vendors
Dozens of vendors &
developers, 5
companies identified
22 vendors identified
to date
4. Address Full Range of
Environmental Media
Air, water, soil
monitoring
Air pollution control
Water, soil, air
Air pollution
prevention
5, Test Variety of
Verification Organization
Types and Processes
Private sector
Private sector
Private sector
associations,
universities
DoD Laboratory
Targeted Customers
Federal & state
regulators; industry
Federal & state
permitters; industry
Small & large
municipalities &
businesses
Small business
(metal & plastic)
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Program Implementation To Date
FY95 - $7 million1
In September 1995, EPA initiated four pilot programs that were
selected through its competitive Environmental Technology Initiative
process. These were: Small Package Drinking Water Systems, with NSF
International, a private sector testing and standards organization as
partner; Pollution Prevention and Waste Treatment Systems, with the
State of California EPA as partner; Site Characterization and Monitoring
Technologies, with Sandia National Laboratories as partner; Indoor Air
Products, with Research Triangle Institute, a private sector organization,
as partner. In addition, the Agency solicited proposals for a fifth pilot to
test the option of a private sector, non-technology specific, independent
entity. Through a peer reviewed process, the Civil Engineering Research
Foundation has been selected and will shortly initiate a pilot effort. ETV
activities during the first year of the program focused on program planning,
the selection of stakeholder group participants, procedures and protocol
development, priority setting, and solicitation of technologies for testing.
The Site Characterization and Monitoring Technologies pilot, the first to
become operational, completed tests of five technologies. (See Table 3 for
budget summary.)
FY96 - $10 million
In FY96, Congress directed that all ETI funds be focused on
verification. Activities for this year include expansion of the scope of the
first year verification pilots under ETV and initiation of four new pilots. The
technology categories selected for the new pilots are: Advanced
Monitoring Systems to encourage regulatory reinvention; Air Pollution
* FY95 funds were distributed at the end of that fiscal year and were expended
In FY96. Similarly, FY96 funds were distributed at the end of FY96 and are
being expended in FY97.
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Table 3. ETV FY95 and FY96 Pilot Program Funding
Pilot Area
Partner
EPA Contact
Telephone#)
Amount ($mil!lon)
FY95
FY96
Total
Drinking Water Systems
NSF International
Ann Arbor, Ml
Jeff Adams
(513-569-7835)
1.4
1,1
2.5
Site Characterization & Monitoring
Technologies
Sandia National Lab.
Alburquerque, NM
Oak Ridge National Lab.
Oak Ridge, TN
Eric Koglin
(702-798-2432)
1.1*
0.6
1.7
Pollution Prevention (P2)/Waste
Treatment Systems
State of California
Sacramento, CA
Greg Carroll
(513-569-7948)
1.8
0.8
2.6
Indoor Air Products
Research Triangle Institute
RTF, NC
Les Sparks
(919-541-2458)
1.0
0.2
1.2
Independent Entity
CERF
Washington, DC
Norma Lewis
(513-569-7665)
1.8
0.0
1.8
P2/lnnovative Coatings and
Coating Equipment
CTC
Johnstown, PA
Mike Kosusko
(919-541-2734)
0.0
0.6
0.6
Advanced Monitoring Systems
Open Solicitation
Robert Fuerst
(919-541-2220)
0.0
1.6
1.B
Air Pollution Control Technologies
Open Solicitation
Ted Brna
(919-541-2603)
0.0
1.4
1.4
Wet Weather Flows Technologies
Open Solicitation
Mary Stinson
(908-321-6683)
0.0
0.8
0.8
US TIES
(International Verification)
Open Solicitation
Steve James
(513-569-7877)
0.0
1.0
1.0
Total


7.1
8.1
15.2
*FY94 arid FY95 funding
Control Technologies aimed at facilitating the Clean Air Act Amendments
of 1990; Innovative Coatings for Pollution Prevention; and Wet Weather
Flow Technologies, Remaining resources will focus on verification
activities under the Design for the Environment pollution prevention
program conducted by the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxic
Substances, and USTIES (U.S. Technology for International
Environmental Solutions) verification activities abroad with EPA's Office of
International Affairs as an active partner (See Table 3). Important support
activities will include the ongoing ETV program evaluation; a study of the
fate of technologies for which no verification pilots exist ("market gap"
study); and a substantially expanded information diffusion/outreach/
technology transfer program. These activities are summarized on the next
page.
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Other FY96 ETV Funded Activities - $1.9 million
ETV Outreach and Support ($0.5M)
Evaluation Process ($0,1 M)
Technology Data Collection ($0.1 M)
Design for the Environment (DFE) ($1.0M)
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) set aside ($0.2M)
Total ETV FY95 and FY96 Funding—$17.1 million
FY97-$10 million
Investment of FY97 resources will follow the pattern of FY96 for
verification activities, with additional emphasis on communication,
outreach and evaluation. The existing pilots will be entering the full scale
operational phase of the program and will be expanded to include new
technology areas as the market dictates. Candidate technology categories
for one or more new pilots will be based upon the results of the "market
gap" studies conducted during 1997. These new areas would be created
to support segments of the environmental technology industry that are not
adequately addressed by the existing ETV program. Outreach and
information diffusion on the results of the earlier evaluations will be
expanded, and program results to date will be evaluated for preparation of
decision options on the future of the program.
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ETV Program Vision and Projected Development Scenario
Figure 2 lays out the projected ten year development scenario for
the ETV Program in which assumptions are made concerning: (1) the
amount of funding received by the program; (2) the number of viable
technology areas (defined as pilots in the early stages) needed; (3) the
Figure 2. ETV Program Scenario
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
\Z2 Federal $/M	EZ3 EPA Personnel
¦ Technology Areas ESI # Verified Technologies
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number of EPA staff assigned to quality assurance and technical
oversight; and (4) the number of new technologies that come to the
program for verification. All of these assumptions are projections based
upon the experience of technology verification programs in other fields
and the level of resources needed to accomplish the work projected.
Changes to any of the assumptions would, of course, change all of the
projections.
1.	Federal Funding
The projected budget moves from $7M in 1995 to $10M for three years
of development and building market acceptance. It then begins a
gradual decline as the private sector pays more and more of the costs.
By 2005 the steady-state cost of the program for all environmental
areas is projected to be S2M.
2.	Technology Areas
Starting in 1995, pilot programs gradually expand to cover all
appropriate environmental areas (areas defined primarily by customer
groups). By 1997, ten areas are defined and implemented and remain
in place throughout the program, although their technology focus can
shift over time, based on market forces.
3.	EPA Personnel2
EPA staff necessary to oversee third-party verifiers and maintain the
quality and credibility of the program move from 10 in 1995 to as many
as 30 while the program is in its formative stages. As procedures and
quality assurance measurers become routinized, staff demands
gradually lower to a steady state of 10 FTE by 2003.
4.	Verified Technologies
Due to a demand backlog, the number of technologies verified rapidly
rises from five in 1996 to 50 in 2000, stays at this level for a few years,
and then declines to a steady state of about 30 to 35 technologies.
If executed as projected in this scenario, the Environmental
Technology Verification Program could reasonably be expected to verify
the performance of approximately 350 innovative technologies in a
decade.
2 EPA personnel are assigned to ETV from appropriate media areas (e.g., drinking
water, advanced air monitors) within ORD's national laboratories and centers
based upon programmatic requirements. Six EPA staff are assigned to ETV
directly for management coordination, information dissemination, and oversight.
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ETV Home Page Information
ETV Home Page
Accessing the Latest ETV Information
Additional information about EPA's Environmental Technology
Verification Program arid links to the ETV partners can be obtained
through ETV's Internet Web site at the following address: (htp://
www.epa.gov/etv). To view, navigate, and print some of the ETV
documents (stored as PDF or "Portable Document Format"), a free
software application called Adobe Acrobat Reader is required and is
available on-line from a link on ETV's Web site.
Easy installation instructions are included with the Acrobat
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
PB97-160006
Report Nos: EPA/600/K-96/003
Title: Environmental Technology Verification Program: Verification Strategy.
Date: Feb 97
Performing Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Office of
Research and Development,
NTIS Field/Group Codes: 68 (Environmental Pollution & Control), 70E (Research Program
Administration & lecnnology Transfer)
Price: PC A03/MF A01
Availability: This product may be ordered from NTIS b.y phone at (703)487-4650; by fax
at (/UJ)JZl-8547; and by email at "orders0ntis.fedworld.gov'. NTIS is located at 5285
Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA, 22161, USA,
Number of Pages: 23p
Keywords: ^Technology assessment, *Verification, US EPA, Environmental engineering,
Performance evaluation, Criteria, Scenarios, Pilot projects, Technology innovation,
Technology utilization, Remediation, Pollution abatement. Pollution control,
Monitoring, Program management, Program administration, *Environmental technology.
Abstract: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and
UeveIopment (ORD) is publishing this document, to report the goals, operating
principles, and future plans of the newly created Environmental Technology
Verification Program (ETV).

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