TESTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES USING HAZ WASTE AND CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA IN A RCRA-PERMITTED TEST FACILITY The Applied Process Engineering Laboratory (APEL) in Richland, WA, is under construction and scheduled for startup April 1998. APEL will operate under a Washington State Department of Ecology Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Test Permit under which users can lease short-term space in the facility to test new technologies using large quantities of hazardous wastes and contaminated environmental media. Users can lease permitted space in APEL and conduct testing without making separate application for a RCRA RD&D test permit. APEL provides high-bay test space and infrastructure (process exhaust, effluent monitoring and discharge, wastewater discharge permit, air permit, RCRA RD&D permit, utilities, services, etc.) necessary to conduct large-scale testing and validation using actual wastes and contaminated media. For more information contact Chuck Allen at (509)372-4220. WEB: Applied Processing Engineering Laboratory, http://www.pnl.gov/edo/solution.htm. E-MAIL: Applied Processing Engineering Laboratory, chuck.allen@pnl.gov.

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