Lexington Company Receives EPA Grant for Mass Transit Decontamination

LEXINGTON, MA – A Lexington company has been awarded $99,857 by the Environmental Protection Agency for the decontamination of subway and railway cars.

First reported by the Lexington Minuteman, TIAX, LLC has developed a technology that captures and kills biological contaminants while decontaminating biological and radiological hazards. The current method of decontamination requires hours of labor for site preparation, decontamination, wash-down and recovery for waste disposal.

According to the EPA, TIAX technology combines these tasks and reduces the manpower necessary; in addition, it requires a smaller logistical response, provides protection against worker exposure and environmental cross-contamination and reduces the volume of hazardous waste disposal.

The EPA awarded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to 13 businesses nationwide, worth a total of $1.3 billion, to stimulate technologies working toward solving environmental issues.

The technology developed by TIAX may be used in response to hazardous material releases in buildings and transportation systems, including trains, buses and aircraft.

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