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Procedures for Detection and Quantitation

Federal Advisory Committee on Detection and Quantitation for Uses in Clean Water Act Programs

Meeting #4

Wednesday - Thursday, March 29-30, 2006

L. William Seidman Center
3501 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA
Rooms 203 & 205

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AGENDA

DAY ONE: Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
Time	Activity	Materials
9:00 AM	Opening and Introductions
9:10 AM	Welcome from Mary Smith, Director, Engineering and Analysis Division, EPA
9:15 AM	Agenda Overview and Grounding Facilitator summary of goals for this meeting FACDQ Timeline and Charter Discussion: What do we need to accomplish at this meeting to meet the timeline?	FACDQ Committee Process Chart - Status Report (PDF, 1 page, 17 Kb)
9:35 AM	Discussion and Approval of Meeting #3 Summary	Approved Third Meeting Final Summary (PDF, 36 pages, 197 Kb)
9:40 AM	Caucus Outreach Efforts Reports
10:10 AM	What does the FACDQ need procedures to do? Goal: Discuss and agree on top priority procedure characteristics	What Do We Need a Procedure To Do? (PDF, 6 pages, 35 Kb) Priority Characteristics of Detection & Quantitation Procedures
10:45 AM	BREAK
11:00 AM	Continued Discussion: What does the FACDQ need procedures to do? Caucus perspectives Agreements Next steps
12:00 PM	Overview of Uses of Detection and Quantitation Panel from the Policy Workgroup	Clean Water Act Uses Framework (PDF, 4 pages, 22 Kb)
12:30 PM	LUNCH (Committee members discuss policy issues related to uses of detection and quantitation)
1:45 PM	Uses of Detection and Quantitation: Committee Discussion and Decisions on Policy Issues and Actions Review Caucus Positions on Uses of Detection and Quantitation from Meeting #3 Discuss and reach agreement on Detection and Quantitation Approaches by Use: Establishing Permit Limits Establishing Compliance/Enforcement Limits Data Reporting for Uses: for Compliance/Enforcement for Reasonable Potential	Caucus Positions on Uses of Detection and Quantitation (PDF, 1 page, 16 Kb) Prescriptive and Descriptive Approaches Comparison Chart (PDF, 3 pages, 25 Kb) Background Document for Policy Issues (PDF, 4 pages, 32 Kb) Uses Decision Trees (PDF, 2 pages, 25 Kb)
3:00 PM	BREAK AND CAUCUS
3:30 PM	Decisions and Future Direction GOAL: Reach Agreement on Uses of Detection and Quantitation in Clean Water Act Programs
4:45 PM	Public Comment
5:00 PM	Measurement Quality Objectives Panel Presentation
5:20 PM	Wrap-up; Agenda Review and Assignments for Day 2
5:30 PM	ADJOURN DAY 1

DAY TWO: Thursday, March 30, 2006, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Time	Activity	Materials
8:00 AM	Welcome, Agenda Review
8:15 AM	Confirm Agreements on Uses
9:00 AM	Measurement Quality Objectives: Deliberations and Discussion Goal: Reach agreement on Measurement Quality Objectives	MQO Template (PDF, 9 page, 73 Kb) Technical Work Group Discussion Summary on Setting MQOs Framework for FACDQ Discussion on Measurement Quality Objectives (MQOs) EPA Straw MQO Proposal with Comments (PDF, 3 pages, 116 Kb)
10:00 AM	BREAK AND CAUCUS
10:30 AM	Committee Decision-Making and Closure What does the FACDQ need procedures to do? What uses meet those needs? What MQO's should be used for purposes of the Pilot Test?
12:00 PM	LUNCH
1:00 PM	Technical Work Group Report Reach Agreement on decisions needed to do contracting for Pilot Study Review of FACDQ Assignments and Reports from Technical Work Group FACDQ response to the Technical Work Group questions
2:30 PM	BREAK
2:45 PM	Policy and Technical Work Group Assignments Decide the Next Steps on Pilot Test Contracting Assign Work to Policy and Technical Work Group
3:30 PM	Public Comment
3:45 PM	Wrap-Up and Next Steps
4:00 PM	ADJOURN

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