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Validating existing data in the Environmental Technology Verification Program.

¹U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division, Technical Services Branch, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

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|March 15, 2001

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) program developed a process to ensure the credibility of existing data. This policy allows for the use of previously collected data to verify environmental technologies, saving resources.

Area of Science:

Environmental science and technology verification.
Data quality assurance and metadata management.

Background:

Establishing the credibility of existing data for secondary use is challenging.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) program faced the issue of using existing data sets.

Purpose of the Study:

To discuss the process developed by the ETV program for determining the credibility of existing data.
To address the need for data acceptability criteria when using historical datasets for technology verification.

Main Methods:

Review of the ETV program's policy and process for handling existing data.
Analysis of the criteria used to establish data credibility for secondary purposes.

Main Results:

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A formal policy and process were established and published to address the use of existing data in the ETV program.
The ETV program developed a framework to determine the acceptability of existing data for verifying environmental technologies.

Conclusions:

The ETV program's approach ensures that existing data can be reliably used for technology verification.
This methodology supports cost-effective verification by leveraging previously generated data while maintaining quality standards.