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Technology Considerations
Many technologies and approaches are used to assess and remediate contaminated sites, soil, and groundwater. Tools are available to help screen, evaluate, and implement more effective, less costly approaches to site characterization, monitoring, and cleanup. These resources apply to Superfund sites, corrective action sites under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), underground storage tank clean-ups, state voluntary clean up programs, and Brownfields.
Some of these methods are considered new or innovative. Innovative remediation technologies are those for which sufficient published cost and performance data are not yet available. These technologies may feature new methodologies, new equipment, or both. Innovative technology benefits can include better performance, reduced cost and complexity, and shorter clean-up time.
Technology Topics
Remediation
Provides descriptions of innovative technologies, selection tools
for making informed technology decisions, and technology developer support.
Also contains several resources tailored to the special needs
of brownfields sites.
Characterization and Monitoring
Provides resources on both technical and
methods-related innovations including descriptions of innovative technologies,
selection tools for making informed technology decisions, and technology
developer support. Methods information, including information on systematic
planning, dynamic work plans, sampling design, and standard operating
procedures, is also featured. Case studies and modernization experiences
highlight the benefits of these approaches. Finally, contains
several resources tailored to the special needs of brownfields sites.
Regulatory Information
Provides information on federal rules, policy, and guidance
relevant to the selection and use of innovative technologies and methods
in the assessment and remediation of contaminated sites. Includes Federal
Register notices, policy directives, memoranda, and links to additional
resources.
Environmental Technology Verification Program
EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV) Characterization
and Monitoring Technologies Pilot program seeks to provide
credible environmental technology performance data from disinterested
third parties under the auspices of EPA. Under the ETV Program, the Site
Characterization and Monitoring Technologies Pilot was established to
increase the application of innovative site characterization by providing
a mechanism for the EPA verification of the performance of the technologies.
The Pilot employs a third-party verification organization (DOE National
Laboratory). After the field evaluation, the Pilot produces reports on
each technology accompanied by verification statements.
Other Important Links and Guidance
Superfund Innovative Technology
Evaluation (SITE)
Established to provide for the demonstration and evaluation of technologies
for use in clean-up of Superfund sites. SITE has worked to evaluate emerging
clean-up technologies and to demonstrate and evaluate full-scale, field-ready
clean-up and monitoring and measurement technologies. Through the SITE
Monitoring and Measurement Technologies program, the EPA National Environmental
Research Laboratory-Las Vegas has produced a number of Innovative Technology
Evaluation Reports to document the results of the field analytical and
sampling technologies it has demonstrated.
Innovative Remediation
Technologies: Field-Scale Demonstration Project Database and Report
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.
Environmental Security Technology
Certification Program (ESTCP) 
ESTCP's goal is to demonstrate and validate promising, innovative technologies
that target the Department of Defense's (DoD's) most urgent environmental
needs. These technologies provide a return on the investment through cost
savings and improved efficiency.
Strategic
Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)
The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program is the Department
of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed
in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal
and non-federal organizations.
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"Guidance for Implementing Superfund Reform Initiative 9a: Risk Sharing" (March 1998)
Formally announces EPA's policy on risk sharing of
innovative technologies. Under this initiative, EPA agrees to share the
risk of implementing innovative remediation technologies with PRPs (Potentially
Responsible Parties). [6 pp]
OSWER 9010.02
PDF (72 K)
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