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Environmental Technology Verification Program: Driving Innovation and Results

Learn how the ETV Program provides credible information for innovative technologies, solving high-risk environmental issues, collaborating with stakeholders, and achieving successful verifications. Discover ETV Centers, partnerships with states and organizations, and case studies showcasing the impact of ETV in areas like air pollution control and water quality protection. Explore outreach efforts, stakeholder engagement, and success stories like reducing particulate matter and arsenic levels. Join the movement for environmental innovation and results today!

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Environmental Technology Verification Program: Driving Innovation and Results

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  1. Teresa Harten, ETV Director State-EPA Symposium on Environmental Innovation and Results January 24-25, 2006 Denver, Colorado Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Programhelping innovation, removing barriers

  2. ETV Objectives • Provide credible performance information for commercial-ready technology to help solve high-risk environmental problems. Aid: • Policymakers and Regulators in making policy and permitting decisions for innovative technologies • Vendors/Developers in selling and further developing innovative technologies • Purchasers in making decisions to purchase innovative technologies

  3. ETV Successes • 349 Verifications, 84 protocols since 1995 • Supports solving important environmental problems • Increasing: • Collaboration and privatization: funding from vendors and other partners at over 50% from others (30% cash and 20% in-kind) • Stakeholder participation – over 800 stakeholders in 21 groups • Web and international interest - >1.5 M hits/year • Over 50 homeland security technology verifications completed

  4. Six ETV Centers • ETV Air Pollution Control Technology Center RTI International • ETV Advanced Monitoring Systems Center Battelle • ETV Drinking Water Systems Center NSF International • ETV Greenhouse Gas Technology Center Southern Research Institute • ETV Water Quality Protection Center NSF International • ETV P2 Coatings and Coating EquipmentPilot Concurrent Technologies Corporation

  5. ETV Partners with States and others • U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Multi-parameter water probes, atrazine detection • U.S. Coast Guard • Ballast water treatment • U.S. Dept of Energy; States of Massachusetts, Connecticut; Illinois Clean Coal Institute • Continuous emission mercury monitors • U.S. Dept of Defense • Monitors for explosives, PCBs in soils; dust suppressants • States of Alaska, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California • Drinking water arsenic treatment

  6. ETV Partners with States and others • States of/counties in Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan and EPA SBIR Program Storm water treatment • States of New York, Colorado Waste to energy • DuPont, USGS Nutrient monitors • Chlorine Chemistry Council, EPA-Office of Solid Waste and EPA-Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Dioxin monitors • U.S. Dept of Agriculture Ambient ammonia monitors, hydrogen sulfide monitors

  7. Clean Air Compliance in Texas,NOX Reduction Technology and ETV • NOx implicated in ground level ozone violations • 10 million population exposed • Texas is making $1 – 1.5 B available though 2010 for retrofits; grants available for verification and technology purchase • EPA SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) to call for NOx technology proposals • ETV Program – to provide technology verification • Air Pollution Control Technology Center • Greenhouse Gas Technology Center • EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality makes decisions on technology acceptance • EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards makes decisions on State Implementation Plan (SIPs) credits

  8. ETV Outreach • Stakeholders provide outreach • Centers provide specific outreach to users, especially state and local regulators • Example: NSF embarking on new effort to engage states in value of verification. Utah advises verification of drinking water equipment. • ETV program outreach – conferences (exhibits and presentations), website, papers, field days and press events

  9. Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA) Survey - 2003 • 24 states use ETV to reduce frequency/length of site specific pilot testing • 13 states use ETV reports as prerequisite to consideration of the technology • 15 states use ETV data as primary source for decision-making “[The] ETV drinking water initiative is …. an effective and useful tool to attain a more streamlined approach to technology application” and “in a relatively short time frame, state programs have significantly increased their awareness and use of protocols and test plans.” Bridgett O’Grady, ASDWA, 2004

  10. Case Study: Diesel Retrofit • 7 technologies verified in 2003-5 • 6 reduce particulate matter (PM) by 21to 95% • Verification makes eligible for EPA’s Voluntary Diesel Retrofit grants program • 1,230 technologies installed as result of verification and grants • At 10% market penetration, for 7 yr use • reduction in PM calculated to be 9K to 31K tons • avoided premature mortality calculated to be 683 – 2,380 fewer deaths • $5 -18M in monetary benefits calculated

  11. Case Study: Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water • Up to 3,900 small drinking water systems need options • 8 technologies verified in 2001-2004 (3 more in 2005 but not part of case study) • Average removal efficiencies of 50-95%; most reduced arsenic levels to 5 ppb or less • If 10% market penetration is achieved, • 1.3 to 1.9 avoided cases of lung and bladder cancer per year • 0.7 to 1.0 avoided deaths from the prevention of these cancers per year • $4.8 million to $6.8 million in savings per yeardue to the prevention of these cancers • Reduce pilot testing costs • ASDWA survey notes that most states use ETV to reduce the frequency and length of pilot testing

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