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EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
pursued a three-part strategy:
- Defining Needs: 21M2
will consolidate expressed needs and identify future program technology
requirements in the areas of site characterization, process control, waste
testing, and monitoring.
- Gathering Intelligence:
21M2 will research and inventory the state of the art for advanced
monitoring technologies. This task will establish baselines for both fully
developed, commercially-ready (but underutilized) technologies, AND emerging,
cutting-edge approaches that require further R&D.
- Increasing Understanding and Acceptance
of Technology Options: 21M2 will seek out opportunities to
showcase promising approaches through further research support, demonstrations,
monitored partnership applications, case studies, training, and
technical outreach.
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TIP is now implementing the
21M2 initiative in several areas:
- EPA Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR):
OSWER is working with the Office of Research and Development (ORD) to ensure that waste program monitoring needs supported by 21M2 are included in the solicitations for EPA SBIR Phase I research grants. See http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2005/2005_sbir_phase1.html#VIII for specific details.
- Technology Deployment: OSWER is showcasing technologies
and methods that are at a field-ready, commercial scale of development. These
technologies were identified through OSWER programs (including RCRA, Superfund,
and Underground Storage Tanks) and will involve the application or further
development of a variety of techniques including improved off-site and on-site
analytical techniques, innovative subsurface characterization, emissions
monitoring, fence-line monitoring, and computer-aided data interpretation.
- Outreach: OSWER will develop and report information on
program needs, technological advances, and the subsequent acceptance and
impacts of program-supported technologies.
- Technology Search: OSWER will actively search the
literature, Federal agency research programs, and the commercial sector to
identify promising technologies.
- Collaboration: OSWER has initiated activities to
identify and cultivate mutual interests in other EPA program offices (e.g.,
Enforcement, Air) and technology development and clean-up programs at other
agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Energy.
- Procurement: OSWER will explore a number of procurement
options that will allow interested users within EPA to field promising
technologies.
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http://clu-in.org/programs/21m2/strategy.cfm
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