Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable: Creating Tools for the Hazardous Waste Cleanup Community
The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable leads the federal government’s efforts to
promote interagency cooperation to advance the use of innovative technologies for the
remediation of hazardous waste sites and transfer the benefits of these cooperative efforts to
the site remediation community. Since its inception more than ten years ago, collaborative
efforts among the Roundtable member-agencies have led to technology development and
demonstration partnerships with private developers and a more consistent and unified federal
approach to technology evaluation and acceptance by regulators. The Roundtable also has
produced a wide variety of technology transfer tools and other information resources, and
identified and targeted national technology development priorities and problems that require
special attention (e.g., groundwater contamination, expedited site characterization) for
coordinated national action.
The Roundtable “agenda” is driven by the highest priority needs of the hazardous waste
cleanup community. The Roundtable always strives to stay one step ahead of the changes in
priorities, and address tomorrow’s problems today. By convening open, semi-annual
meetings, the Roundtable offers a unique networking opportunity for the site remediation
technology community.