| Arsenic
Rule Implementation Research – EPA's Office of Research and
Development is spearheading the research program. The purpose
of the effort is to provide information to fill-in research gaps
that exist for a number of technologies or compliance approaches
and provide this information to utilities, engineering firms,
regulatory officials and others. |
| Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
(EDC) – Chemicals now in and continuing to enter the environment
may be causing adverse endocrine-related health and ecosystem
effects. Because recognized exposure of humans and ecosystems
to known or highly suspected EDCs may be minimized quickly and
easily by adapting existing risk management (RM) tools, EPA's
National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) is investigating
these opportunities. RM research will be continually refocused
as ongoing health effects and exposure research, risk assessments,
the EPA Program Offices' and EPA Regions' needs generate new information. |
| Environmental Technology Verification – This program provides credible performance data for commercial-ready
environmental technologies to speed their implementation for the
benefit of vendors, purchasers, permitters, and the public. The
program is carried out through agreements with private testing
and evaluation organizations. ETV conducts verification activities
for a broad range of technology categories, including monitoring
and treatment technologies relevant for homeland security. |
| Methyl Tertiary Butyl
Ether (MTBE) – This research is intended to improve understanding
of the physical/chemical/biological processes associated with
the fate and transport and destruction of MTBE and to evaluate
and develop more cost-effective MTBE treatment processes. |
| NATO CCMS Pilot
Study Clean Products and Processes – The United States, represented
by EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL)
established and is leading this CCMS pilot study on Clean Products
and Processes to create an international forum for open discussion
on applying cleaner industrial processes and producing cleaner
products around the globe. |
| Pathogen Equivalency Committee – This
web site provides guidance for demonstrating the effectiveness
of innovative and/or alternative sewage sludge disinfection processes
for the purposes of receiving a recommendation of equivalency
to a process that significantly or further reduces pathogens.
Biosolids are sewage sludges that have been treated and managed
to meet state and federal standards. 40 CFR Part 503 regulates
sewage sludge use and disposal. |
| Superfund Innovative Technology
Evaluation (SITE) – This program encourages the development
and implementation of (1) innovative treatment technologies for
hazardous waste site remediation and (2) monitoring and measurement.
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