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PA HAMMER AWARD PRESENTED TO EPA’S ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION PROGRAM TEAM
Release Date: 04/24/98
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1998
HAMMER AWARD PRESENTED TO EPA’S ENVIRONMENTAL
TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION PROGRAM TEAM
On April 14, EPA’s Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program Team in the Office of Research and Development received Vice President Gore’s National Performance Review Hammer Award. The Hammer Award is presented to teams of federal employees who have made significant contributions in support of reinventing government principles. ETV is designed to accelerate the development and commercialization of improved environmental technology through third party verification and reporting of performance. ETV provides purchasers, permitters and developers with objective and quality assured performance data. The program now operates nine pilots covering a broad range of environmental areas. ETV has verified 12 technologies to date, and 34 additional technologies are presently in the verification process. EPA expects that ETV will verify more than 300 better, faster, cheaper technologies by the year 2005. The benefits of the ETV Program are: 1) getting objective, credible performance data to buyers; 2) facilitating technology acceptance and permitting at the state/local level, and the export of American products and their acceptance abroad; 3) reducing the risk for financial investors; and 4) leveling the playing field among competitors through standardized tests and objective reporting. Additional information about the ETV program can be accessed at Internet address: https://www.epa.gov/etv.
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