FRTR Member-Agency Offices and Programs

	U.S. Department of Defense
	U.S. Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Navy
	U.S. Department of Energy
	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
	U.S. Department of the Interior
	National Aeronautics and Space Administration

U.S. Department of Defense

• Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (DUSD/I&E) – Office responsible for oversight and policy guidance for all Department of Defense Installations and Environmental Programs. This includes environmental, safety, and occupational health policies and programs; restoration at active and closing bases; compliance with environmental laws; conservation of natural and cultural resources; pollution prevention, environmental technology, fire protection, and explosives safety.

• Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Environmental Cleanup – Provides BRAC Cleanup Teams and associated personnel with information and the latest news on emerging policies and inactives on BRAC cleanup.

• Defense Environment Network & Information Exchange (DENIX) – Provides information, communication and collaboration services to Department of Defense environmental personnel, State regulatory and educational environmental offices, the environmental international community, and the general public.

• Defense Technical Information Center — Central facility for searching, displaying, or ordering scientific and technical reports and summaries from DoD.

• Department of Defense Environmental Cleanup – Provides information from DoD's Cleanup Office and Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP), which are charged with reducing risks to human health and the environment at active, formerly used, and closing bases and former DoD properties.

• Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) – Provides objective advice to the Secretary of Defense and Service Secretaries on matters concerning explosives safety and prevention of hazardous conditions to life and property on and off Department of Defense installations from the explosives and environmental effects of DoD titled munitions.

• DoD Environmental Security Technology Certification Program – ESTCP's goal is to demonstrate and validate promising, innovative technologies that target the Department of Defense's most urgent environmental needs. These technologies provide a return on investment through cost savings and improved efficiency.

• National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence (NDCEE) – Serves as a national leadership organization to address high priority environmental problems for the Department of Defense, other government organizations, and the industrial community.

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U.S. Air Force

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Environment, Safety and Occupational Health – Office responsible for providing guidance, direction, and oversight on all matters pertaining to the formulation, review, and execution of Air Force plans, policies, programs, and budgets related to environment, safety, and occupational health.

• Air Force Base Conversion Agency (AFBCA) – Executes the environmental programs and real and personal property disposal for major Air Force bases in the United States being closed or realigned under the authorities of the Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1988 and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990.

• Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence – Provides a full range of environmental, architectural and landscape design, planning, and construction management services.

• Edwards Air Force Base Environmental Management – As home of the Air Force Flight Test Center, focuses focuses on helping the flight testers maintain access to the unique physical environment the desert provides for flight testing and other operations, while not upsetting the delicate balance of the desert ecosystem.

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U.S. Army

• Army Environmental Center (AEC) – Provides central planning, management, coordination, oversight, and technical support to the Army's environmental programs. Develops, executes, and provides management oversight of Army environmental programs in support of ACSIM and Office of the Director Environmental Programs, including restoration of contaminated lands, pollution prevention, technology transfer, reporting and tracking of Army programs, conservation of natural and cultural resources, and compliance with environmental standards and criteria.

• Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Headquarters – Provides information on USACE's mission, organizational units, and the environmental and other services USACE provides to the military and the public.

• Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory – Engages in research, development, special studies, and technology transfer to support the environmental missions of the Army and DoD.

• Environmental Division – Cleans up sites contaminated with hazardous waste, radioactive waste, or ordnance and complies with Federal, State, and local environmental laws and regulations.

• Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Center of Expertise – Provides information and assistance on topics related to environmental remediation and environmental compliance, including innovative technologies, environmental risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, environmental engineering, and cost recovery.

• Innovative Technology Program – Provides synopses of applying innovative technologies at a variety of sites, and solving a wide range of contaminant problems. This web site includes the USACE points of contact and their telephone number for each featured site.

• Wetlands Research and Technology Center – Facilitates and coordinates wetlands scientific and engineering work, wetlands training, and interagency coordination efforts and responds to wetlands-related questions from DoD, other Federal, and State agencies as well as from academia, industry, and the general public.

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U.S. Navy

• Department of the Navy Environmental Program – Office responsible for enhancing Navy operational readiness through efficient, publicly responsive and technologically advanced pollution prevention, conservation, compliance, cleanup, safety and occupational health programs.

• Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) – Provides timely and effective facilities engineering solutions and push the envelope for innovative, technology-leveraged strategies and alternatives in a variety of areas, including base realighnment and closure and environmental programs.

• Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) – List of services through which the Navy provides customers with professional assitance in solving environmental cleanup, compliance, and pollution prevention problems.

• Navy Environmental Leadership Program (NELP) – Identifies environmental issues affecting Navy and Marine Corps ships, commands or activities, demonstrates and validates innovative technologies and/or processes for addressing these issues, and disseminates Lessons Learned throughout the Naval and Marine Corps communities. NELP activities are carried out by Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island in Coronado, California and Naval Station Mayport, Florida.

• Navy Technology Transfer Page – Highlights technology transfer efforts conducted by the Navy's environmental community and Navy efforts to increase the use of innovative technologies and approaches to reduce environmental cleanup costs.

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U.S. Department of Energy

• Office of Environmental Management (EM) – Office responsible for centralized management of DOE waste management operations, environmental restoration programs and activities, and related applied research and development. EM also provides direction, policy, and management oversight to the DOE Operations Offices at Idaho (ID), Ohio (OH), Rocky Flats (RF), Richland (RL), Savannah River (SR), and the Office of River Protection (ORP) at Richland.

• Data Quality Objectives (DQO) – A systematic procedure for defining the criteria that a data collection design should satisfy, including when to collect samples, where to collect samples, the tolerable level of decision error for the study, and how many samples to collect, balancing risk and cost in an acceptable manner.

• DOE Information Bridge – Provides an open source to full-text and bibliographic records of DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics produced by the DOE National Laboratories and grantees since 1995.

• EM Lessons Learned Program – Promotes sharing of knowledge across the DOE complex with specific emphasis on lessons learned to encourage replication of good work practices and innovative approaches and avoid recurrences of adverse work practices or experiences.

• EM Paths to Closure – Web page containing a site-by-site, project-by-project description of the projected technical scope, cost, and schedule required to complete the DOE's remaining cleanup sites in the United States.

• Office of Science and Technology – The Office of Environmental Management's Science and Technology (S&T) program is responsible for providing technology solutions to help clean up the legacy of U.S. government nuclear operations and weapons production. S&T's provides assistance in technology development, demonstration, and deployment to contribute to timely and cost-effective cleanup and enable long-term stewardship of contaminated DOE sites.

• Office of Site Closure – The Office of Site Closure has consolidated management of all cleanup/operations for seven of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) field offices. The Office has redirected its program to create a culture of closure with the sole focus of achieving cleanup and closing sites.

DOE National Laboratories

• Ames Laboratory Environmental Technology Development Program – Technology information under development at Ames Lab for application at DOE sites.

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Environmental Restoration Division – Information on environmental projects from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• Los Alamos Environmental Science and Technology – Information on innovative technologies from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Environmental Technology Division – Environmental restoration project information from DOE's Hanford Reservation and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

• Sandia National Laboratory – Environmental restoration project information from Sandia's environmental program.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Hazardous Waste Cleanup Information (CLU-IN) – World Wide Web site offering comprehensive information designed to assist hazardous waste cleanup professionals in finding the latest information on innovative hazardous waste treatment technologies, including information on programs, organizations, publications, and access to data bases and other tools for cleanups. CLU-IN users include EPA staff, other Federal and State personnel, consulting engineers, technology vendors, remediation contractors, researchers, community groups, and the public.

• Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment – Information on efforts to cleanup and reuse abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities, known as Brownfield sites, where redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.

• Completed North American Innovative Remediation Technology Demonstration Projects – Summary of 599 ongoing and completed field demonstrations of innovative remediation technologies sponsored by government agencies working in partnership with private technology developers to bring new technologies into the hazardous waste remediation marketplace. Available as a downloadable document or as a searchable, on-line database.

• Dense Nonaqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPLs) – This website compiles available information related to the cleanup of dense nonaqueous-phase liquids (DNAPLs) at hazardous waste sites. The site addresses the most common DNAPL contaminants: chlorinated ethenes (e.g., tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene) and multi-component wastes (creosotes, coal tars, and heavy oils), with an emphasis on source zone cleanup. It provides information about available remediation technologies, such as bioremediation, in situ flushing and oxidation, and thermal processes. U.S. EPA's Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation plans to add new resources as they become available, and future expansion may include ethers, halogenated alkanes, polychlorinated biphenyls, and other chemicals that form DNAPLs.

• Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV) – Verifies the performance of innovative technical solutions to problems that threaten human health or the environment. Managed by EPA's Office of Research and Development, ETV was created to substantially accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace. ETV verifies commercial-ready, private sector technologies through 12 programs.

• Federal Facilities Restoration & Reuse Office – Provides links to documents containing comprehensive information on existing and potential treatment technologies for remediation of hazardous waste at Federal facilities.

• Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) – Responsible for EPA programs to protecting public health and the environment through safely managing waste, preparing for, and preventing chemical and oil spills, accidents and emergencies cleaning up and reusing contaminated property.

• REmediation And CHaracterization Innovative Technologies (REACH IT) – New system, sponsored by the EPA's Technology Innovation Office, that lets environmental professionals use the Internet to search, view, download and print information about innovative remediation and characterization technologies.

• Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program – Established by EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and the Office of Research and Development in response to the 1986 Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act, which recognized a need for an "Alternative or Innovative Treatment Technology Research and Demonstration Program."

• Training Exchange – Provides a range of training information to EPA, other Federal agency, State, Tribal, and local staff involved in hazardous waste management and remediation.

• Technology Transfer Highlights – Information on technology transfer projects and support from the Agency's National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL). The laboratory conducts research in a variety of areas, including protection of water quality in public water systems; remediation of contaminated soils, sediments and ground water; and restoration of ecosystems.

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U.S. Department of Interior

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Environmental Quality – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is the main federal agency dedicated to protecting wildlife and their habitat from pollution's harmful effects, helping to create a healthy world for all living things.

• U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program – Provides objective scientific information to improve characterization and management of contaminated sites, to protect human and environmental health, and to reduce potential future contamination problems.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• Environmental Management Division – Office responsible for assuring that NASA meets its Federal stewardship responsibilities while carrying out its primary mission of understanding and protecting Earth, exploring the Universe, and inspiring future explorers.

• NASA Commercial Technology Network – Provides strategic direction, policy and oversight for the NASA-wide implementation of the Commercial Technology Program, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/ Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs, the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board and associated technology commercialization initiatives.

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Selected Technology-Related Partnerships and Consortia

• Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) – A cooperative initiative among Federal agencies and institutional recipients of Federal funds. It was established to increase research productivity by streamlining the administrative process and minimizing the administrative burden on principal investigators while maintaining effective stewardship of Federal funds. FDP members include academic and research institutions, Federal agencies, and professional organizations. Given the ever-increasing Federal regulatory environment and the strain on the relationship between academia and the Federal government, FDP provides a unique forum for dialogue, demonstration, and debate among all the key players.

• Federal Integrated Biotreatment Consortium – Operates under the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) to develop implementable, cost-effective bioremediation technologies for addressing explosives, high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

• Groundwater Remediation Technologies Analysis Center (GWRTAC) – Compiles, analyzes, and disseminates information on innovative ground-water remediation technologies prepared by technical teams selectively chosen from Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), the University of Pittsburgh, and other supporting institutions, and also maintains an active outreach program.

• Hazardous Substances Research Centers – Carry out an active program of basic and applied research, technology transfer, and training with financial support from U.S. EPA, DOE, DoD, other State and Federal government agencies, academia, and industry. The HSRC's are located regionally in five multi-university centers, which focus on different aspects of hazardous substance management. These centers bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to collaborate on integrated research projects, which involve practical problems of hazardous substance management as well as long-term, exploratory research.

• Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC) – A national coalition of State environmental regulatory agencies working with Federal agencies and other stakeholders to improve the acceptance and deployment of innovative environmental technologies. ITRC programs focus on building national/regional partnerships and establishing interstate verification standards and mechanisms that encourage regulators and regulated entities to explore innovative solutions to environmental protection, site restoration, and resource conservation problems.

• National Research Council – The National Research Council (NRC) functions under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The NAS, NAE, IOM, and NRC are part of a private, nonprofit institution that provides science, technology and health policy advice.

• Remediation Technologies Development Forum (RTDF) – Established by the U.S. EPA's Technology Innovation Office and Office of Research and Development to foster collaboration between the public and private sector in finding innovative solutions to mutual hazardous waste problems. The RTDF has grown into a consortium of partners from industry, government, and academia. Partners share the common goal of developing more effective, less costly hazardous waste characterization and treatment technologies.

• Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites: Assessing the Effectiveness (2007) – This report was produced by the National Research Council (NRC) for the U.S. EPA and evaluates dredging as a cleanup technique. The report finds that, based on a review of available evidence, dredging's ability to decrease environmental and health risks is still an open question. Analysis of pre-dredging and post-dredging at about 20 sites found a wide range of outcomes in terms of surface sediment concentrations of contaminants: some sites showed increases, some no change, and some decreases in concentrations.

• Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) – DoD's corporate environmental research and development program, planned and executed in full partnership with the DOE and U.S. EPA, with participation by numerous other Federal and non-Federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the Program focuses on cleanup, compliance, conservation, and pollution prevention technologies. SERDP identifies, develops, and transitions environmental technologies that relate directly to defense mission accomplishment.

• Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP) – Focuses on acquiring new scientific and engineering knowledge that advances society's understanding of the human and ecological risks from hazardous substances and the development of new technologies for the cleanup of Superfund sites. Results of SBRP efforts serve as the basis for subsequent basic or applied research in these areas, but also provides a foundation for practical benefits such as lower cleanup costs on hazardous waste sites and improvements in human and ecological health risk assessment.

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