Public participation in the evaluation of innovative environmental cleanup technology
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:121043
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Now that the mission of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) at sites across the country has turned from weapons production to environmental cleanup, innovative technologies for remediation of contamination are urgently needed. DOE is managing a national program to develop, demonstrate, and deploy new technologies with promise to expedite this cleanup. The Integrated Demonstration for Cleanup of Volatile Organic Compounds at Arid Sites (VOC-AridID) is one such effort. Time and resources, however, are too limited to be invested in methods to remediation that will never be deployed because they have not been vigorously evaluated or because they face the withering opposition of stakeholders. Therefore, the VOC-Arid ID is assessing technology both in terms of its technical effectiveness and its stakeholder acceptability. Only if a technology performs as required and is acceptable to regulators, users of technology, and the public will the VOC-Arid ID recommend its deployment. What distinguishes public involvement in the VOC-Arid is the direct influence stakeholders have on the design of technology demonstrations. Stakeholders participated in defining the criteria with which innovative environmental cleanup technology will be evaluated. A guiding principle of the VOC-Arid ID is that stakeholder participation will improve the quality of the technologies being developed, enhance the acceptance of the technologies, and lead to the broad and timely deployment of appropriate and effective innovative methods of environmental remediation.
- Research Organization:
- Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ (United States). Coll. of Engineering and Mines; New Mexico State Univ., University Park, NM (United States); Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC), Las Cruces, NM (United States); USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 121043
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940225--Vol.2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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