EPA New England Press Releases

EPA TO HOST TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION CONFERENCE

Contact: Carol Kilbride, (617)918-1831

For immediate release: October 14, 1997; Release # 97-10-6

BOSTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host a conference Dec. 9 at Hanscom Air Force base in Bedford, Mass. to introduce a new verification program that helps commercialize innovative private sector technologies while supplying objective performance data to the purchasers and permitters of environmental technology.

Through the EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program, technology buyers and developers, consulting engineers, state regulatory agencies, financiers and the international community are supplied with high quality, objective data through an independent assessment of the performance of new technologies.

The EPA has established 12 technology verification pilot programs covering such issues as drinking water systems, pollution prevention and waste minimization. The agency will six additional pilots covering source water protection, climate change, pollution prevention in the metal finishing industry, advanced monitoring systems, air pollution prevention and control technologies, and wet weather flow. Formore information, contact EPA-New England's Center for Environmental Industry and Technology at (800)575-CEIT.

 

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1. TITLE: EPA to Host Technology Verification Conference

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3. ABSTRACT: The U.S. EPA will host a conference December 9 at Hanscom Air Force base in Bedford, Mass. to introduce a new verification program that helps commercialize innovative private sector technologies while supplying objective performance data to the purchasers and permitters of environmental technology.

4. PURPOSE: Public Information

5. ORIGINATOR: Regional Administrator's Office

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11. POINT OF CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
    Carol Kilbride
    Office of the Regional Administrator
    EPA Region 1, New England
    JFK Kennedy Building (RAA)
    Boston, MA 02203
    617-918-1831

12. RESPONSIBLE PARTY:
    Doug Gutro
    Office of the Regional Administrator

13. DATE OF CREATION: TO BE ENTERED LATER

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15. EXPIRATION DATE: 12/10/97