The Epa In Transition

摘要

In order for you to understand the motivation behind some of my comments, I thought it would help if I started with a statement of RadTech's basic approach to the EPA. In response to the first Clean Air Act of 1970, much of the drive behind the early development of the UV/EB technology has been to reduce VOCs. The use of this technology in the industrial world has been slow to develop. Surprisingly, much of the early growth we have seen has been due to beneficial factors of the technology other than environmental control. However, high solids and water-borne systems were adequate to meet early VOC restrictions and they were readily accepted by the controlled industries because they required only minor chages in processing. Because they did not encounter many UV/EB installations in the industries they surveyed, the EPA did not recognize the value of UV/EB technology in providing for umch greater reductions in VOC.