The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program to facilitate the deployment of innovative or improved environmental technologies through performance verification and dissemination of information. The goal of the ETV program is to further environmental protection by accelerating the acceptance and use of improved and cost-effective technologies. ETV seeks to achiveve this goal by provding high-quality, perr-reviewed data on technology performance to those involved in the design, distributuion, financing, permitting, purchase and use of environmental technologies.