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Environmental Laboratory Approval Program

Certification Manual Listing

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GENERAL INFORMATION
ITEMS 100 - 175

• Item No. 100 - Table of Contents
• Item No. 110 - Legal Requirements
• Item No. 120 - Public Health Law 502
• Item No. 130 - Application Process and General Requirements
• Item No. 132 - Restrictions on the Use of Certification
• Item No. 135 - Accreditation of Mobile Laboratories: Definitions and Criteria for Approval
• Item No. 140 - Personnel Requirements
• Item No. 150 - Denial, Suspension, and Revocation of Approval
• Item No. 170 - Part 55-3 NYCRR
• Item No. 175 - Instructions for Reporting Total Adjusted Volume

FIELDS OF ACCREDITATION
ITEMS 180 - 180.6

• Item No. 180 - Fields of Accreditation
• Item No. 180.1 - Drinking Water
• Item No. 180.2 - Non-Potable Water
• Item No. 180.3 - Solid and Chemical Materials
• Item No. 180.4 - Air and Emissions
• Item No. 180.5 - References
• Item No. 180.6 - Technology Codes

METHODS & ANALYSES
ITEMS 198 - 199

• Item No. 198 - Environmental Analysis/NYS DOH methods
• Item No. 198.1 - Polarized-Light Microscope Methods for Identifying and Quantitating Asbestos in Bulk Samples
• Item No. 198.2 - Environmental Analysis / Revision to Waterborne Asbestos Analysis
• Item No. 198.3 - Procedural Modification for Drinking Water Total Coliform
• Item No. 198.4 - Transmission Electron Microscope Method for Identifying and Quantitating Asbestos in Non-Friable Organically Bound Bulk Samples
• Item No. 198.5 - New York State Modifications to EPA Method 502.2
• Item No. 198.6 - Polarized-Light Microscope Method for Identifying and Quantitating Asbestos in Non-Friable Organically Bound Bulk Samples
• Item No. 198.7 - Clarification to Method EPA 625 (Clean Water Act, Appendix A to Part 136)
• Item No. 199 - Alternate Testing Procedures

QUALITY ASSURANCE PLANS & RECORDS
ITEMS 200 - 236

• Item No. 200 - On-Site Assessment
• Item No. 210 - Quality System
• Item No. 231 - Equipment
• Item No. 231.1 - Equipment Environmental Analyses/Air & Emissions
• Item No. 232 - Materials
• Item No. 232.1 - Materials, Environmntal Analyses/Air and Emissions
• Item No. 235 - Procedures, Microscopy
• Item No. 236 - Procedures, Transmission Electron Microscopy

SAMPLE COLLECTION & FIELD ANALYSES
ITEMS 241 - 249

• Item No. 241 - Requirements for Public Drinking Water
• Item No. 242 - Requirements for Non-Potable Water
• Item No. 243 - Requirements for Solid & Chemical Materials
• Item No. 244 - Air and Emissions
• Item No. 249 - Field Analyses/Analyze Immediate Parameters

QUALITY CONTROL REQUIREMENTS
ITEMS 271.1 - 280

• Item No. 271.1 - Water/Asbestos
• Item No. 272 - Finished Bottled Water
• Item No. 273.2 - Air & Emissions/Radon in Air
• Item No. 280 - Required Detection Limits

PROFICIENCY TESTING
ITEMS 300 - 330

• Item No. 300 - General
• Item No. 310 - Current Schedule
• Item No. 311 - Drinking (Potable) Water Samples
• Item No. 312 - Non-Potable Water Samples
• Item No. 313 - Solid & Chemical Materials Samples
• Item No. 314 - Potable & Non-Potable Water Bacteriology Samples
• Item No. 315 - Air Samples
• Item No. 320 - Examples of Instructions
• Item No. 327 - Reporting PT Results (previously titled, Examples of Results)
• Item No. 328 - Reports
• Item No. 330 - Scoring

OTHER ITEMS

• NYCRR Subpart 55-2