The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Technology Verification Program is

designed to accelerate the development and commercialization of improved environmental technology

through third-party verification and reporting of

performance. The goal of ETV is to verify the

performance characteristics of commercial-ready

environmental technologies through the evaluation of

objective and quality-assured data. This verification

will provide purchasers and permitters with an

independent and credible assessment of the technology that they are buying or permitting. ETV is

intended to expand the environmental technology

choices of public and private decision-makers, both in

our country and abroad.

ETV is a voluntary program that seeks to make

objective performance information available to all of

the actors in the environmental marketplace for their

consideration and to assist them in making informed

technology decisions. ETV does not rank technologies nor compare their performance, label or list

technologies as acceptable or unacceptable, nor seek

to determine “best available technology”, nor approve

or disapprove technologies. The program does not

evaluate technologies at the bench- or pilot-scale and

does not conduct or support research.

The program now operates ten centers covering a

broad range of environmental areas. ETV began with

a 5-year pilot phase (1995-2000) to test a wide range

of partner and procedural alternatives in various pilot

areas, as well as the true market demand for and

response to such a program. In these pilots, EPA

utilized the expertise of partner “verification organizations” to design efficient processes for conducting

verification tests of innovative technologies. EPA has

selected its partners from

both the public and private

sectors including Federal

laboratories, states,

industry consortia, and

private sector facilities.

Verification organizations oversee and

report verification

activities based on

testing and quality

assurance protocols developed

with input from all

major stakeholder/customer groups

associated with the technology area.

The Site Characterization and Monitoring Technologies (SCMT) Center is one of ten centers operating

under ETV. The U.S. EPA National Exposure

Research Laboratory, Environmental Sciences

Division in Las Vegas manages the center. Their

partner verification organizations are the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory

and Sandia National Laboratories. The SCMT Center

	



	




	
	







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Cone Penetrometer–Deployed Sensors

The Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System (SCAPS) LIF

 Sensor and Support System; U.S. Navy, SPAWAR EPA 600-R-97-019

The Rapid Optical Screening Tool (ROST) LIF System for Screening of Petroleum

 Hydrocarbons in Subsurface Soils; Fugro Geosciences, Inc. EPA 600-R-97-020

Decision Support Systems

ArcView GIS Version 3.1; ESRI, Inc. EPA 600-R-99-094

SiteProTM Version 3.0; Environmental Software, Inc. EPA 600-R-99-093

Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA); University of Tennessee

Research Corporation EPA 600-R-00-036

Groundwater FX; Decision FX, Inc. EPA 600-R-00-037

conducts verification testing of environmental characterization and monitoring technologies. Commercialready technologies are evaluated to provide potential

technology users and permitters with an independent

and credible assessment of technology performance.

The verification process includes the development of

formal test protocols, on-site field testing, and data

evaluation. One of the end products of the verification process is an Environmental Technology Verification Report (ETVR). The ETVR contains a

Verification Statement that is signed by EPA and the

Verification Organization.


	 

Each technology verification test follows a similar

process that includes the steps listed below.

 Identification of user-community needs

 Solicitation and selection of technology

 Planning of demonstration

 Field demonstration

 Reporting of results

 Information dissemination


	 

	  		

Sampling FX; Decision FX, Inc. EPA 600-R-00-038

Environmental Visualization System Pro (EVS-PRO); C Tech Development

Corporation EPA 600-R-00-047

Explosives Detection Technology

GC-IONSCANTM; Barringer Instruments EPA 600-R-00-046

FAST 2000TM; Research International, Inc. EPA 600-R-00-045

Field Portable Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometers

SpectraTrakTM 672; Viking Instruments Corporation EPA 600-R-97-148

EM640TM; Bruker-Franzen Analytical Systems, Inc. EPA 600-R-97-149

HAPSITE with Headspace Sampling Accessory; Inficon, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-142

Field Portable Gas Chromatographs

Model 4100 Vapor Detector; Electronic Sensor Technology (PCBs) EPA 600-R-98-114

Model 4100 Vapor Detector; Electronic Sensor Technology (VOCs) EPA 600-R-98-141

Voyager (GC/ECD); Perkin-Elmer Corporation (Photovac Monitoring Instruments) EPA 600-R-98-144

Scentograph Plus II; Sentex Systems, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-145

Multi-Gas IR Monitor

Type 1312 Multi-gas Monitor; Innova AirTech Instruments EPA 600-R-98-143

Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers

Scitec MAP Spectrum Analyzer; EDAX Portable Products (formerly Scitec, Inc.) EPA 600-R-97-147

SEFA-P Analyzer; HNU Systems, Inc. EPA 600-R-97-144

TN 9000 and TN Lead Analyzer; KevexSpectrace Instruments EPA 600-R-97-145

X-MET 920-MP; Metorex, Inc. EPA 600-R-97-151

X-MET 920-P and X-MET 940; Metorex, Inc. EPA 600-R-97-146

XL Spectrum Analyzer; Niton Corporation EPA 600-R-97-150

Immunoassay Test Kits

EnviroGard PCB Test Kit; Strategic Diagnostics Inc. EPA 600-R-98-113

PCB in Soil Tube Assay; EnviroLogix, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-173

RaPID Assay System for PCB Analysis; Strategic Diagnostics Inc. EPA 600-R-98-111

D Tech PCB Test Kit; Strategic Diagnostics Inc. EPA 600-R-98-112

PCB Immunoassay Kit; Hach Company EPA 600-R-98-110

Ion Selective Electrode

L2000 PCB/Chloride Analyzer; Dexsil Corporation EPA 600-R-98-109

Soil Gas/Soil Gas Sampling Technologies

AMS Dual Tube Liner Sampler; Art’s Manufacturing and Supply EPA 600-R-98-093

JMC Environmentalist’s Subsoil Probe; Clements Associates, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-091

EMFLUX Soil Investigation System; Quadrel Services, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-096

Gore-Sorber Screening Survey Passive Soil Gas Sampling System;

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-095

Core Barrel Sampler; Simulprobe Technologies, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-094

Large Bore Soil Sampler; Geoprobe Systems, Inc. EPA 600-R-98-092

Groundwater Sampling Technologies

Kabis Sampler Models I and II; Sibak Industries Ltd., Inc. EPA 600-R-00-054

Well Wizard Dedicated Sampling System; QED Environmental Systems, Inc. EPA 600-R-00-062

Multiprobe 100; Burge Environmental Technologies EPA 600-R-00-074

Micro-Flo Bladder Pump Model 57400; GeoLog, Inc. EPA 600-R-00-075

SampEase Bladder Pump; Clean Environment Equipment EPA 600-R-00-078

GORE-SORBER Water Quality Monitoring; W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. EPA 600-R-00-091

	
	 	 

	 	


			

	

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Sandia National Laboratories

PO Box 5800, MS 0755

Albuquerque, NM 87175-0755

Phone: 505-845-8314

Fax: 505-844-0968

Email: weinfel@sandia.gov

Roger Jenkins

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PO Box 2008, MS 6120

Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6120

Phone: 865-574-4871

Fax: 865-576-7956

Email: jenkinsra@ornl.gov

Eric Koglin

EPA Project Officer

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

National Exposure Research Laboratory

PO Box 93478

Las Vegas, NV 89193-3478

Phone: 702-798-2432

Fax: 702-798-2107

Email: koglin.eric@epa.gov