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Remediation
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 Green Remediation |
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EPA's Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation has developed a Green Remediation web site. The site explains the basic principles and objectives of green remediation, and outlines best practices for reducing the environmental footprint of contaminated site cleanup projects. Over coming months, the site will expand to describe more details on green remediation best practices, and serve as a clearinghouse for technical materials, decision-making tools, site-specific case studies illustrating green remediation implementation efforts, and information on green remediation related events and new information products. |
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Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable Decision Support Tools (DSTs) Matrix |
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DSTs are interactive software tools used by decision-makers to help answer questions, solve problems, and support or refute conclusions. They can be incorporated into a structured decision-making process for environment site clean-up. DSTs often support multiple functions, such as data acquisition, spatial data management, modeling, and cost estimating. The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable matrix is a table that provides general information about each DST, such as the types of files that may be imported to, or exported from, the DST, the characteristics of applicable sites (contaminants and media) and the functions it performs. All DSTs that were evaluated are free to the public. |
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Remediation and Characterization Technology Database (EPA REACH IT) |
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EPA created the REACH IT System to compile and share information on treatment and characterization technologies for a range of contaminant types and media. After being launched in 1999 as a replacement for the VISITT, Vendor FACTS, and ITT databases, REACH IT was populated over time with information on over 500 remediation technologies and 260 characterization technologies. With the evolution of on-line search services and engines and the development of a range of other resources on technologies and vendors coupled with resource limitations, EPA discontinued the on-line REACH IT System in 2006. Limited technology vendor information from the EPA REACH IT System has been preserved through:
For information on adding, updating, or removing a vendor listing, please contact Michael Adam, adam.michael@epa.gov or 703-603-9915.
Technology Vendors are encouraged to use the CLU-IN Vendor and Developer Support area as a resource for other methods to promote their tools. |
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The
Remediation Technologies Screening Matrix |
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The remediation technologies screening matrix is a user-friendly tool to screen for technologies for a remediation project. The matrix allows you to screen through 64 in situ and ex situ technologies for either soil or groundwater remediation. Variables used in screening include contaminants, development status, overall cost, and cleanup time. In-depth information on each technology is also available, including direct links to over 209 cost and performance reports written by members of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. |
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EPA Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Technology Support Center |
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Coordinated through EPA's Technology Innovation Program, the Brownfields and Land Revitalization Technology Support Center ensures that Brownfields decision makers are aware of the full range of technologies available to make informed or "smart" technology decisions for their sites. The Brownfields Center provides a readily accessible resource for unbiased assessments and supporting information on options relevant to specific sites. The Center also provides a technology-oriented review process for investigation and clean-up plans for these sites. The project also provides information about other available support activities, such as those conducted by the Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Program located at the five regional Hazardous Substance Research Centers. Direct support is available to EPA regional staff, state staff, and local governments.
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Superfund Analytical Services/Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) Tools |
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The Analytical Services Branch provides several tools to assist Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) clients, laboratories, and samplers. These tools were designed to use the Internet to facilitate many of the essential functions of the CLP. They incorporate Web technologies such as Lotus Notes/Domino, Cold Fusion, and Extensible Markup Language (XML). |
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> Technology Vendor and Developer Support
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CLU-IN Vendor Support |
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The vendor support area provides technology developers and vendors with tools to help advance technologies through all stages of product development from bench scale to full commercialization. The materials cover a broad range of topics that include business planning, marketing, financing, and technical issues and sources. |
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Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools - electronic (SMARTe) |
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SMARTe is a Web-based information source and decision support tool. The purpose of SMARTe is to aid stakeholders in identifying, applying, and integrating tools and technologies to facilitate the revitalization of potentially contaminated sites in the United States. SMARTe is intended to be a Web-based system that can be updated as new tools, technologies, and approaches become available for revitalization. |
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Road Map to Understanding Innovative Technology Options for Brownfields Investigation and Cleanup |
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The Road Map provides a general outline of the steps in the investigation and cleanup of a site slated for redevelopment and introduces brownfields stakeholders to the range of innovative technology options and resources available to them. The Road Map provides valuable information for a wide range of stakeholders involved in or affected by redevelopment of brownfields sites, whether through public projects, private developments, or public-private partnerships. The Fourth Edition has been expanded significantly to include new and updated resources and supplemental information. |
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EPA Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Technology Support Center |
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Coordinated through EPA's Technology Innovation Program, the Brownfields and Land Revitalization Technology Support Center ensures that Brownfields decision makers are aware of the full range of technologies available to make informed or "smart" technology decisions for their sites. The Brownfields Center provides a readily accessible resource for unbiased assessments and supporting information on options relevant to specific sites. The Center also provides a technology-oriented review process for investigation and clean-up plans for these sites. The project also provides information about other available support activities, such as those conducted by the Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Program located at the five regional Hazardous Substance Research Centers. Direct support is available to EPA regional staff, state staff, and local governments.
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Visit the Brownfields Technology Support Center |
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Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB) |
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TAB helps communities to clean and redevelop properties that have been damaged or undervalued by environmental contamination. The purpose of these efforts is to create better jobs, increase the local tax base, improve neighborhood environments, and enhance the overall quality of life. The main audiences for TAB assistance are community groups, municipal officials, developers, and leaders with lending institutions constituting a secondary audience. |
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EPA Brownfields Initiative |
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EPA's Brownfields Initiative will empower States, communities, and other stakeholders in economic development to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields |
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In Situ Flushing Site Profiles |
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EPA has developed this Web site to summarize timely information about selected full- and field-scale applications of in situ flushing technologies. In situ flushing is the injection or infiltration of an aqueous solution into a zone of contaminated soil or groundwater, followed by the extraction and aboveground treatment of the elutriate (flushing solution mixed with contaminants). In some rare cases, the flushing solution and treated contaminants may be left in place. These flushing solutions typically serve to increase the mobility and/or solubility of the contaminants. Many organic contaminants are susceptible to in situ flushing, including non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), halogenated pesticides, dioxins/furans, cyanides and corrosives. Inorganic compounds such as volatile and nonvolatile metals, corrosives, cyanides, and radioactive contaminants may potentially be removed using in situ flushing. This database provides information about ongoing and completed applications of in situ flushing technologies. The project profiles provide summary information about each application, including relevant site information, contaminants and media treated, technology design and operation, cost information, and performance results, as well as point(s) of contact and references.
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Phytotechnology Project Profiles |
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EPA has developed this Web site to summarize timely information about selected full-, field- and large greenhouse-scale applications of phytotechnology. Phytotechnology is an emerging technology that uses various types of plants to degrade, extract, contain, or immobilize contaminants in soil and water. Projects for this Web site are collected using information from technical journals, conference proceedings as well as information obtained from technology vendors and site managers. The project profiles contain information about relevant site background, the types of contaminants treated, type of vegetation used, phytotechnology mechanisms, planting date, project size, location, cost, monitoring and performance results, as well as points of contact and references. This Web site can be used as a networking tool (each profile has a contact) to provide past solutions and lessons learned to new sites with similar contaminants and climate.
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Remediation Technology Demonstration Project Profiles |
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EPA has developed this web site to summarize timely information about selected field-scale demonstration projects. Projects address soil and groundwater cleanup technologies, completed and on going, which have been performed in the U.S. or Canada. This database includes projects that have been presented at a recent technical conference (such as conferences sponsored by Battelle or the National Ground Water Association) or published in a technical journal. The database does not include projects that involve only site characterization technologies or computer modeling. EPA plans to update and expand this web site with additional demonstration projects, and with updated information about specific projects, as further information is obtained. |
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Innovative
Remediation Technologies: Field-Scale Demonstration Projects in North
America, 2nd Edition, Year 2000 Report |
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A revision and expansion of the EPA publication Completed North American Innovative Technology Demonstration Projects, the project information in the new document is now available in an online, searchable database of ongoing and completed field demonstrations of innovative remediation technologies sponsored by government agencies working in partnership with private technology developers to bring new technologies into the hazardous waste remediation marketplace. |
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The
Remediation Technologies Screening Matrix |
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The remediation technologies screening matrix is a user-friendly tool to screen for technologies for a remediation project. The matrix allows you to screen through 64 in situ and ex situ technologies for either soil or groundwater remediation. Variables used in screening include contaminants, development status, overall cost, and cleanup time. In-depth information on each technology is also available, including direct links to over 209 cost and performance reports written by members of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. |
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Superfund Cleanup Technologies |
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A searchable database of treatment technology applications for soil, groundwater, and other media at Superfund sites. The information in this database was gathered from Superfund decision documents and project managers at Superfund remedial and removal sites. It contains information about source control technologies (addressing soil, sludge, sediment, and other solid-matrix wastes), innovative (in situ) groundwater treatment technologies, and subsurface barrier groundwater containment technologies (vertical engineered barriers). The database is searchable by site name, site identification number (CERCLIS ID), state, technology type, contaminant, and media.
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Alternative Landfill Cover Site Profiles |
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Information about proposed, tested, or installed projects of alternative landfill covers are captured in this web site. The alternative landfill covers presented involve design concepts that manipulate water balance principles to minimize the infiltration of water to the waste. Two types of alternative landfill covers primarily included in this web site are evapotranspiration (ET) covers and capillary barrier covers. The information for these projects is provided as cover profiles that summarize relevant site background; cover design information; monitoring and performance results; costs; as well as points of contact and references. Most of the cover projects are demonstrations; however, several are full-scale applications. |
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Newsletters on Innovative Treatment Technologies |
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Technology News and Trends is a newsletter for environmental professionals that features a combination of articles on innovative, in-situ technologies for the characterization and treatment of soil, sediment, and ground water. |
View Current Issue of Technology News and Trends |
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Citizen's Guides to Cleanup Methods |
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The Citizens' Guides are 2-page fact sheets that explain, in basic terms, the operation and application of the most frequently used innovative treatment technologies. Please note: There are English and Spanish versions of most guides. The following guides are available:
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View Citizen's Guides |
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MTBE Treatment Profiles |
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The MTBE Treatment Profiles provide information about completed and ongoing applications of treatment for methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in drinking water and media at contaminated sites by describing sites using in situ and ex situ technologies to treat MTBE in drinking water, groundwater, and soil. While the focus of the profiles is on sites with treatment of MTBE, some of these sites also were contaminated with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX), other oxygenates such as tert-butyl alcohol (TBA), or other compounds such as chlorinated solvents or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The MTBE treatment profiles provide a summary of relevant site information, contaminants and media, technology design and operation, and cost and performance results, as well as a point of contact and references. The technologies (both in situ and ex situ) presented in the profiles include: air sparging, bioremediation, drinking water treatment, chemical oxidation, multi-phase extraction, phytoremediation, product recovery, pump-and-treat, and soil vapor extraction. |
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Fractured Bedrock Focus Area |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Technology Innovation Program (TIP) is assembling information on efforts to identify and remediate contaminated fractured rock sites. Our goal is to establish a series brief site profiles that will identify the nature and extent of the contamination problems at such sites, geology affecting site assessment and remediation efforts, characterization and remediation actions taken or planned, and compile site contact information to open communication between individuals currently involved in using these technologies. |
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Technology Focus |
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If you need information on a specific technology there is a tool on CLU-IN to shorten your research time. Through the Technology Focus section, CLU-IN provides a compilation of the most relevant information sources on remediation technologies. These resources are presented under 5 categories for each technology such as Technology Description, Applications, Engineering/Regulatory Guidance, Training and References, with a summary and direct link to each one of them. Technologies included range from the established (SVE) to innovative (Phytoremediation). |
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In Situ Thermal Treatment Site Profile Database |
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The In Situ Thermal Treatment Site Profile Database provides information on in situ thermal treatment projects available on the Internet or through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). |
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Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable Case Studies |
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The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable is at the forefront of the Federal Government's efforts to promote interagency cooperation to advance the use of innovative remediation technologies. The Cost and Performance Reports provide the recommended procedures for documenting results from completed full-scale hazardous waste site remediation projects. Roundtable member Agencies include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the U.S. Deparment of the Interior (DOI). |
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U.S. Army Environmental Center (USAEC) |
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The USAEC Technology link provides access to descriptions of innovative technology demonstrations conducted at numerous Army installations. |
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> Links to Other Remediation Resources
- Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
- The mission of the Roundtable is to exchange information and provide a forum for joint activity regarding the development and demonstration of innovative technologies for hazardous waste site remediation. The exchange systhesizes the technical knowledge that Federal Agenices have compiled and provides a more comprehensive record of performance and cost. Members include major developers and users of these technologies: Department of Defense: U.S. Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- EPA Brownfields and Land Revitalization Technology Support Center
- Coordinated through EPA's Technology Innovation Program, the Brownfields and Land Revitalization Technology Support Center ensures that Brownfields decision makers are aware of the full range of technologies available to make informed or "smart" technology decisions for their sites. The Brownfields Center provides a readily accessible resource for unbiased assessments and supporting information on options relevant to specific sites. The Center also provides a technology-oriented review process for investigation and clean-up plans for these sites. The project also provides information about other available support activities, such as those conducted by the Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Program located at the five regional Hazardous Substance Research Centers. Direct support is available to EPA regional staff, state staff, and local governments.
For more information, please contact Carlos Pachon, Technology Integration and Information Branch, (703) 603-9904, pachon.carlos@epa.gov.
- Remediation Technologies Development Forum (RTDF)
- Established by the U.S. EPA's Technology Innovation Program and Office of Research and Development to foster collaboration between the public and private sector in finding innovative solutions to mutual hazardous waste problems. The RTDF has grown into a consortium of partners from industry, government, and academia. Partners share the common goal of developing more effective, less costly hazardous waste characterization and treatment technologies.
- Groundwater Remediation Project - National Water Research Institute of Environment Canada
- The Groundwater Remediation Project (GWRP) conducts a multidisciplinary research program on the sustainability and remediation of groundwater resources in Canada. New techniques for isolating and restoring existing groundwater contamination are being developed. Research is also conducted on the role played by groundwater in regional water budgets.
- Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
- The Toxic Substances Hydrology Program provides objective scientific information to improve characterization and management of contaminated sites, to protect human and environmental health, and to reduce potential future contamination problems.
- U.S. EPA Technical Support Project
- Provides technical assistance to Regional Remedial Project Managers, Corrective Action Staff, and On-Scene Coordinators. The Project consists of a network of Regional Forums and specialized Technical Support Centers located in ORD and the Office of Radiation Programs (ORP) laboratories, and OSWER's Environmental Response Team.
For more information, please contact Linda Fiedler, Technology Assessment Branch, (703) 603-7194, fiedler.linda@epa.gov.
- U.S. EPA Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program
- Under the EPA's SITE program engineering, performance, and cost data is collected to aid in future decision-making for hazardous waste site remediation. The information is published in the Technology Profiles document, which provides information on 216 demonstration, emerging, and characterization and monitoring technologies being evaluated under the SITE Program.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hazardous Waste Research Center
- The U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) is playing a major role in development of technologies for cleanup of toxic and hazardous waste in military and civilian sites. Basic and applied research efforts are coordinated through our Hazardous Waste Research Center (HWRC) that opened in fiscal year 1988.
- U.S. Army Environmental Center
- The USAEC's Environmental Technology Division is dedicated to providing technical support and guidance in the transfer of environmental technology throughout the U.S. Army. This program enables the Army to demonstrate the capabilities of emerging environmental technologies under actual working conditions at Army installations while gathering performance and cost information.
- Defense Environmental Network & Information eXchange (DENIX)
- Provides access to environmental legislative, compliance, restoration, cleanup, and DOD guidance information.
- State Cleanup Programs
- Provides a list of State programs for the cleanup and remediation of hazardous wastes.
- Sediments Research Web
- The sediments research web is an online community designed to promote improvements in the management and remediation of contaminated sediments. The site is sponsored by the South and Southwest region of the Hazardous Substance Research Centers, a five-year consortium established and supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB)
- TAB helps communities to clean and redevelop properties that have been damaged or undervalued by environmental contamination. The purpose of these efforts is to create better jobs, increase the local tax base, improve neighborhood environments, and enhance the overall quality of life. The main audiences for TAB assistance are community groups, municipal officials, developers, and leaders with lending institutions constituting a secondary audience.
- National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
- The mission of the National Ground Water Association is to provide professional and technical leadership in the advancement of the ground water industry and in the protection, promotion, and responsible development and use of ground water resources.
- Subsurface Contaminants Focus Area
- The DOE Subsurface Contaminants Focus Areas for 99 are Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids Remediation (DNAPL) and Metals and Radionuclides Remediation (MRR). Technology information may also be found under Technologies, then Prior Years Product Lines.
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Technology
- The Office of Science and Technology's mission is to provide the full range of science and technology resources and capabilities, from basic research to development, and from demonstration and deployment to technical assistance, needed to deliver and support fully developed, deployable scientific and technological solutions to EM cleanup and long-term environmental stewardship problems.
- Air & Waste Management Association
- International Environmental Organization
- DOE Technology Information Exchange
- Promotes the prompt and efficient application of the best available and tested commercial technologies and, when those are lacking, by fostering the development and application of appropriate new or modified technologies.
- Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center
- Provides solutions to problems through engineering, design, construction, consultation, test and evaluation, technology implementation, and management support. The NFESC leverages technology to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of customers. The NFESC performs research and development when required to meet Navy and Marine Corps needs.
- Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO)
- Information on State hazardous waste programs, nonhazardous municipal solid waste and industrial waste programs, recycling/minimization/reduction programs, Superfund/State cleanup programs, underground storage tank, and leaking underground storage tank programs.
- Ames Laboratory Environmental Technology Development
- The Ames Laboratory's Environmental & Protection Sciencess Program is part of the U. S. Department of Energy's initiative to clean up hazardous waste, responding to remediation problems that need faster, safer, better or cheaper technological solutions.
- DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- Interested in accelerating the application of appropriate existing and new technologies.
- California Environmental Technology Certification Program
- California EPA's certification program is a voluntary program that provides participating technology developers, manufacturers, and vendors an independent, recognized, third-party evaluation of the performance of new and mature environmental technologies. The technologies, equipment, and products that are proven to work as claimed receive official state certification.
- Navy Environmental Leadership Program (NELP)
- The Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Quality Management Board established the Navy Environmental Leadership Program (NELP) to find new and innovative ways to manage Navy environmental programs. In October 1993, the Secretary of the Navy approved the NELP Charter and Mission Statement: NELP activities will serve as test beds for new and innovative technologies and focused management to address the full spectrum of environmental issues, and will export their successes throughout the Navy.
- European Groundwater and Contaminated Land Information System (EUGRIS)
- EUGRIS provides research project information, technical information and information from the European Union and its Member States. It also provides a news service, directory of contacts in the field and an opportunity for you to post your own information.