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(Herb Nelson) Well, SERDP which is the Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program, that is

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the research and development program within
the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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One of our missions is to develop technologies
to both remediate or clean up past environmental

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contamination and also help develop technologies
to help avoid contamination in the future.

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So the problem that we're talking about today,
which is these aqueous film-forming foams,

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which are used for firefighting at the Department
of Defense, civilian airports, uh, tanker

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fires on the highway, these fit into both
of those.

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We're looking to clean up the contamination
from the past and we're looking to develop

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new versions of these things that don't contain
fluorine, that are not hazardous to health,

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to be used in the future.