Air pollution control technologies performance verification: A permit tool. Report for October--December 1998

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has instituted the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) program to verify the performance of innovative or improved technical solutions to problems that threaten human health or the environment. The goal of the ETV program is to accelerate the entrance of new or improved environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace. The Research Triangle Institute (RTI) is EPA`s partner organization for the Air Pollutant Control Technologies (APCT) ETV program, one of 12 pilot programs. This paper describes how the verification statements and other aspects of the APCT ETV program will help expedite the air permit process.