[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                     TRIBUTE TO UMPQUA RESEARCH CO.

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                         HON. JERRY F. COSTELLO

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 19, 1994

  Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of the Umpqua 
Research Co. which has recently won the NASA Government Invention of 
the Year and the NASA Commercial Invention of the Year. Umpqua operates 
a research lab in Myrtle Creek, OR, and a sales and marketing office in 
Belleville, IL, in my congressional district.
  The NASA awards were given in honor of Umpqua's water purification 
technology called the Regenerable Biocide Delivery Unit. While the 
system is primarily used by NASA, it has commercial applications around 
the world in schools, hospitals, and entire villages. Umpqua is the 
first organization to receive a separate NASA award for an invention 
demonstrating commercial potential to complement inventions that 
benefit NASA's mission.
  The Regenerable Biocide Delivery Unit was created for NASA under a 
Small Business Innovative Research contract to purify water for long-
term space missions. This unit differs from Umpqua's microbial check 
valve [MCV] cartridge system, which has been used on every space 
shuttle flight since 1979, in that its cartridges can be regenerated 
without removing them from the unit, a function which had to be done 
manually on the original MCV system.
  Umpqua will be recognized for its research efforts by NASA at a 
formal award ceremony on Friday, April 22. I thank my colleagues for 
joining me in recognizing Umpqua for its outstanding achievement in 
water purification technology.

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