ABSTRACT
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is engaged in an initiative called the Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) program. This program offers a mechanism for performing technology demonstrations and evaluations or for technology development activities between the private sector and EPA with the goal of shortening the period from "proof of concept" to technology commercialization. The overall goal of the SITE Program is to ensure that innovative technologies are developed, demonstrated, and made commercially available for the permanent cleanup of Superfund sites. The Emerging Technologies Program (ETP) is intended to develop innovative technologies for recycling, separation, detoxification, destruction, and stabilization of hazardous wastes at Superfund sites. Under this program, financial assistance is provided by EPA to the private sector to share risk associated with proving the developers' technologies. This program provides the framework and infrastructure to encourage development of innovative approaches in hazardous waste management.
