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These groups consisted of representatives of verification customers for particular technology sectors, including:. The definition of ETV verification was to establish or prove the truth of the performance of a technology under specific, pre-determined criteria or protocols and a strong quality management system.

Note: ETV does not endorse, certify or approve technologies. A verification report was developed for each verified technology. The audience for these reports included:. A verification statement is a summary 2 to 7 pages of the test results for a given environmental technology. You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page.

The audience for these reports included: Technology developers Distributors Financers Regulators Purchasers Others interested in the performance and commercialization of new environmental technologies. The plans may have incorporated or referenced existing generic verification protocols or provided the basis for refining draft protocols.

Verification protocols promoted uniform controlled testing for a class or category of technologies. Stakeholders and panels of technical experts review the protocol to determine whether the data to be collected in the verification test would definitively address the verification factors when published in the final verification report.

In some cases, the protocol was developed prior to testing. In other cases, a generic protocol was developed after the verification is complete and reflects lessons learned during the testing experience.

Sometimes, a generic verification protocol was developed prior to testing. Verification testing was conducted for one product or for a group of similar products at the same time. To conserve resources, ETV often evaluated technologies within a given category in groups when there were multiple vendors.

Audits of the test event are conducted by EPA and the verification organizations. Rigorous quality assurance evaluations of the resulting test data were performed in accordance with the plan, the center-specific quality management plan and the ETV Quality Management Plan PDF 84 pp, KB.

When testing and data analysis are completed, a draft verification report and a summary statement 2 to 7 pages was developed by the verification center for each product tested. The report and statement was reviewed by EPA, the participating vendors and peer reviewers; and EPA management approved the final report and statement. EPA management and the verification center signed the verification statement. The final report and statement was published on the ETV Web site.

The technology vendor was solely responsible for outreach activities related to the performance verification of their product.

EPA and ETV verification centers conducted on-going outreach to inform audiences about the activities of the program and the availability of performance verification information to aid in decision making.

You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. The following are general criteria that have been applied for submitting a technology for verification: The technology must be commercial ready. The vendor should anticipate that the technology will perform well under ETV testing all verification results are published. In general, stakeholders applied three criteria in setting priorities among technology categories: Existence of an important environmental problem to be addressed Availability of techniques for performance testing Feasibility and practicality considerations.

Top of page Identification of Verification Factors Once a technology category was accepted for verification, ETV stakeholders identified the verification factors, or performance considerations, about which purchasers and permitters needed information to make decisions.