20 YEARS OF SITE REMEDIATION VIA INCINERATION IN THE UNITED-STATES

During the mid-1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) O ffice of Research and Development conceptualized and began development of a mobile incineration system that could be used for ther cleanup o f spilled hazardous materials or of abandoned dump sites. Based on the development and demonstration of the EPA mobile incinerator, private industry developed their own mobile systems. As the need to clean up l arge comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) sites progressed and as the market became more c ompetitive, the ''mobile'' concept developed into a ''transportable'' concept with the systems becoming much larger than the initial EPA sys tem.