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In Executive Order 12856,4 the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 and the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments were declared applicable to federal facilities.5 As a result, the Department of Defense established pollution prevention programs and set a goal of reducing hazardous waste by 50 percent by 1999 based on a 1992 baseline.6 In a recent National Research Council report,7 environmentally compatible manufacturing technologies were identified as advances that could be leveraged to meet the needs of defense manufacturing. Coatings technologies were specifically identified as a target area.
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On April 30, 1998, the Army Materiel Command awarded a follow-on contract for $150 million to the Concurrent Technologies Corporation to operate the NDCEE for the next 5 years. The Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a professional services company with a staff of more than 1200, serves clients in the private sector, as well as state and federal government organizations.43 This report describes activities that occurred in the period from the NDCEE's inception until September 30, 2000.
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.~ In fiscal year 1993, the DOD Joint Environmental and Manufacturing Technology Policy Council approved eight initial demonstration tasks and the continuation of six technology assistance tasks. These tasks included subjects related to three of the four cases examined by the committee, specifically, powder coating, electrocoat, and ion beam surface modification.
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The direct Army support through the Industrial Ecology Center amounted to about $5 million per year. Target projects of congressional interest with separate line item budgets totaled approximately $99.7 million in fiscal years 1993 through 1999.
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Concurrent Technologies Corporation, the operating contractor for NDCEE, provides staff support to the Joint Group on Pollution Prevention through the NDCEE contract. Relationship with Other Programs A wide range of Department of Defense programs are working in the area of pollution prevention and their interrelationships are complex.
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Other CTIO projects include optimizing paint removal processes for performance and pollution reduction with both dry particles and chemical systems and improving high-solids liquid paint systems. The Industrial Ecology Center manages the Army's Environmental Quality Pollution Prevention Technology Program, which includes the Environmental Quality Basic Research and Development (EQBRD)
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The Sustainable Green Manufacturing Program has the following objectives:28 Promoting reform of Army and DOD acquisition processes through sustainable green manufacturing, ·~ Improving environmental quality and increasing cost savings through efficient and effective life~ycle management, and · Conducting research and development to address the needs of the Army that bridge environmental stewardship and the sustainability of the Abyss armament mission. The Industrial Ecology Center, which serves as a co-chair of the Corrosion Protection Control Program in the Army Materiel Command, is responsible for addressing the concerns about the corrosion of Army weapons systems, including cost control.
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