Notwithstanding Section 79055, the department shall carry out a program of full-scale demonstrations to evaluate treatment technologies that can be safely utilized for removal and remedial actions to hazardous substance releases.

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

technical performance and cost of conventional technologies, that is likely to be cost-effective, and that will result in a substantial or complete remedial or removal action to a hazardous substance release site.

The department shall select technology demonstration projects to be evaluated pursuant to this article using criteria that include, at a minimum, all of the following requirements:

determined that adequate funding is available from one or more of the following sources:

The department shall identify hazardous substance release sites, listed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 78760) of Chapter 4, that are particularly well-suited for technology demonstration projects. In identifying hazardous substance release sites, the department shall consider, at a minimum, all of the following:

hazardous substance release.

in response to the solicitation. The application shall contain a proposed treatment demonstration plan setting forth how the treatment demonstration project is to be carried out and any other information that the department may require.

pursuant to this section shall be performed by the applicant, or by a person approved by the applicant and the department.

Notwithstanding Section 79650, if the department determines that using an alternative treatment technology to conduct a removal or remedial action at a hazardous substance release site listed pursuant to Section 78760 would be more costly than another available and feasible removal or remedial action method that would also achieve satisfactory results, the department may determine not to attempt to recover from the liable person the incremental costs of the removal or remedial action attributable to the alternative treatment technology.

procedures utilized in the project, the data collected, and the quality assurance and quality control that was conducted.

Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 79205, when preparing or approving a remedial action plan for a site listed pursuant to Section 78760, that has been selected for a treatment demonstration project pursuant to this article, the department shall consider the cost-effectiveness of the project but is not required to choose the most cost-effective measure.