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Quality Assurance Guidance | RCRA and CERCLA Field and Data Validation SOPS

Quality Assurance Guidance

Title
Date
Special Note

Electronic Quality Management Plan eQMP

Mar '08
 

Guidance for the Development of Quality Management Plans for Superfund, RCRA & Brownfield Environmental Monitoring Projects

Mar '05

Uniform Federal Policy for Implementing Environmental Quality Systems (UFP-QS) guidance

Guidance for the Development of Quality Management Plans for non-Superfund, RCRA, Brownfield Environmental Monitoring Projects

Reissue notice
May '06

EPA Requirements for Quality Management Plans (QA/R-2)

Guidance for the Development of Quality Assurance Project Plans for Superfund, RCRA & Brownfield Environmental Monitoring Projects

Mar '05

Uniform Federal Policy for Quality Assurance Project Plans (UFP-QAPP) guidance

Guidance for the Development of Quality Assurance Project Plans for non-Superfund, RCRA & Brownfield Environmental Monitoring Projects

Reissue notice May '06/ Dec '02

EPA requirements for QA Project Plans (QA/R-5) & Guidance for Quality Assurance Plans (QA/G-5)

Guidance for the Development of Quality Assurance Project Plans for Environmental Monitoring Projects

Apr '04
This document presents guidance for the development of a Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP) for non-Superfund environmental monitoring projects to be conducted by or for EPA Region 2.

Brownfields Project Planning Guidance

May '00
Table of contents where the volumes and its components can be downloaded (Currently under revision)

National Functional Guidelines (NFG) For Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) Data Review

Variable
USEPA  Contract Laboratory Program (CLP)
FORMS  II Lite User Manual
PDF
 

Technical Assistance Document for Complying with the TC Rule and Implementing TCLP

Mar '94
 

 

RCRA and CERCLA Field and Data Validation Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Before using, please contact Russell Arnone (arnone.russell@epa.gov) to ensure SOP revisions are not in progress.

SOP Number
Title
Date
Review Date

SOP HW-02
Rev.13, ILM05.3

Evaluation of Metals Data for the CLP Program

Sept '06

Feb '09

SOP HW-06
Revision 14

CLP Organic Data Review and Preliminary Review

Sept '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-11 Revision 2

Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans Data Review

Sept '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-13
Rev. 3,OLC03.2

Organic Data Review for Low Concentration Water

Sept '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-16 Revision 2

Nitroaromatics and Nitroamines by HPLC

Sept '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-17 Revision 3

Validating Chlorinated Herbicides by GC

July '08

Aug '09

SOP HW-19 Revision 1

Validating PCDDs and PCDFs by HRGC/HRMS

Oct '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-22 Revision 4

Validating Semivolatile Organic Compounds by SW-846 Method 8270

Aug '09

Aug '09

SOP HW-24 Revision 2

Validating Volatile Organic Compounds by SW-846 Method 8260B

Aug '08

Aug '09

SOP HW-25 Revision 3

Validating Tetra- through Octa-chlorinated Dioxins and Furans by Isotope Dilution (HRGC/HRMS) Method 1613, Revision A

Sept '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-29 Revision 1

Measurement of Purgeable Organic Compounds in Water by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS): Capillary Column, Acquired Using Method 524.2

Aug '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-31 Revision 4

Validating Volatile Organic Analysis of Ambient Air in canister by Method TO-15

Oct '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-32 Revision 7

National Strategy for Procuring Analytical Services for all OSWER Programs (Superfund, RCRA and Brownfields)

Aug '09

SOP HW-33 Revision 2

Data Validation SOP for Organic Analysis of Low/Medium Concentration VOCs under SOW SOM01.2

Nov '08

Aug '09

SOP HW-34 Revision 1

Data Validation SOP for Organic Analysis of Trace Concentration VOCs under SOW SOM01.2

Aug '07

Aug '09

SOP HW-35 Revision 1

Data Validation SOP for Organic Analysis of Low/Medium Concentration SVOCs under SOW  SOM01.2

Aug '07

Aug '09

SOP HW-36 Revision 2

Data Validation SOP for Organic Analysis of Low/Medium Concentration Pesticides under SOW SOM01.2

Aug '08

Oct '/09

SOP HW-37 Revision 1

Data Validation SOP for Organic Analysis of  Low/Medium Concentration Aroclors under SOW SOM01.2

Aug '07

Aug '09

SOP HW-44 Revision 1

Data Validation SOP of Organochlorine Pesticides by Gas Chromatography
SW-846 Method 8081B

Oct '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-45 Revision 1

Data Validation SOP of Organic Analysis of PCBs by Gas Chromatography
SW-846 Method 8082A

Oct '06

Aug '09

SOP HW-46 Revision 1

Data Validation SOP of Chlorinated Biphenyl Congeners in Water, Soil, Sediment, and Tissue by HRGC/HRMS

Sept '08

Aug '09
SOP HW-55 Revision 2 Data Validation SOP of Tetra-through Octa-Chlorinated Dioxins and Furans by Isotope Dilution (HRGC/HRMS)
Dec '08
Aug '09

* R2-QA Manual has been replaced by UFP_QAPP guidance documents, please visit: http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/documents/qualityassurance.htm  

The following is a link to the DAT Editor Reader, a viewing tool to aid in the review of Microsoft EXCEL spreadsheets provided by the EPA Contract Laboratory Program. The DAT Editor Reader is NOT compatible with any other spreadsheet formats.

Link to DAT EDITOR

 

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