ETV (ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION) VENDOR MEETINGS FOR MANUFACTURERS OF ANIMAL WASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES CBD Announcement of Technology Vendor Meetings for the ETV Source Water Protection Pilot. Meeting dates: June 28 and 29, 2000. Meeting Location: North Carolina State University. Description of Pilot: NSF International (Ann Arbor, MI) is partnering with US EPA National Risk Management Laboratory (Edison, NJ) and US EPA Office of Research and Development to accelerate the commercialization of improved environmental technologies that protect source water from contamination. The ETV verification process stresses third party testing using technically sound protocols and appropriate QA/QC, in addition to third party review of data and reporting of technology performance. ETV provides purchasers, permitters, and technology manufacturers with objective, quality assured data on technologies. The purpose of the Vendor Meeting is to being together manufacturers of animal waste treatment technologies to explain the Environmental Technology Verification Program and discuss the key issues of the protocols under development. The focus of the June 28 meeting will be solids separation technologies. The focus of the June 29 meeting will be aeration technologies. The ETV Source Water Protection Pilot is working together with North Carolina State University and the Animal and Poultry Waste Management Center to develop protocols in the animal waste treatment area. Meeting participants will be provided with details about the benefits and responsibilities of participation in the ETV Program. Input from the vendor community regarding the protocols and the verification process will be encouraged. A block of rooms is being held at the Brownstone Hotel (1707 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC). To reserve a room at the group discount rate ($69.00 per night), please call the hotel at (800) 237-0772. This block of rooms will be held until June 13, 2000. Please inform the hotel reservationist that you will be attending the "EPA/NSF ETV Animal Waste Treatment Vendor Meeting" to ensure the discount rate. After June 13, rooms will be bookedon a space and rate availability basis. The dress code for the meeting is business casual and it is open to anyone interested in learning more about the ETV Program. Vendors should feel free to attend either one or both days of meetings, depending on their company's interests. Lunch will be served both days. For planning purposes, NSF needs to know the number of persons attending the meetings. Please contact Tom Stevens (by phone at (734) 769-5347 or email at stevenst@nsf.org) or Maren Roush (by phone at (734) 827-6821 or email at mroush@nsf.org) prior to the meeting. WEB: Click here to learn more about the ETV Source Water, http://www.epa.gov/etv/11/11_main.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the ETV Source Water Protection, mroush@nsf.org. Posted 05/17/00 (W-SN455788).

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