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| 40:40:25.0.1.1.1.0.1.1 | 40 | Protection of Environment | I | D | 136 | PART 136—GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS | § 136.1 Applicability. | EPA | [72 FR 14224, Mar. 26, 2007, as amended at 77 FR 29771, May 18, 2012; 79 FR 49013, Aug. 19, 2014; 82 FR 40846, Aug. 28, 2017] | (a) The procedures prescribed herein shall, except as noted in §§ 136.4, 136.5, and 136.6, be used to perform the measurements indicated whenever the waste constituent specified is required to be measured for: (1) An application submitted to the Director and/or reports required to be submitted under NPDES permits or other requests for quantitative or qualitative effluent data under parts 122 through 125 of this chapter; and (2) Reports required to be submitted by dischargers under the NPDES established by parts 124 and 125 of this chapter; and (3) Certifications issued by States pursuant to section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), as amended. (b) The procedure prescribed herein and in part 503 of title 40 shall be used to perform the measurements required for an application submitted to the Administrator or to a State for a sewage sludge permit under section 405(f) of the Clean Water Act and for recordkeeping and reporting requirements under part 503 of title 40. (c) For the purposes of the NPDES program, when more than one test procedure is approved under this part for the analysis of a pollutant or pollutant parameter, the test procedure must be sufficiently sensitive as defined at 40 CFR 122.21(e)(3) and 122.44(i)(1)(iv). | |||||
| 40:40:25.0.1.1.1.0.1.2 | 40 | Protection of Environment | I | D | 136 | PART 136—GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS | § 136.2 Definitions. | EPA | [38 FR 28758, Oct. 16, 1973, as amended at 49 FR 43250, Oct. 26, 1984; 82 FR 40846, Aug. 28, 2017] | As used in this part, the term: (a) Act means the Clean Water Act of 1977, Pub. L. 95-217, 91 Stat. 1566, et seq. (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. ) (The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977). (b) Administrator means the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (c) Regional Administrator means one of the EPA Regional Administrators. (d) Director means the director as defined in 40 CFR 122.2. (e) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) means the national system for the issuance of permits under section 402 of the Act and includes any State or interstate program which has been approved by the Administrator, in whole or in part, pursuant to section 402 of the Act. (f) Detection limit means the minimum concentration of an analyte (substance) that can be measured and reported with a 99% confidence that the analyte concentration is distinguishable from the method blank results as determined by the procedure set forth at appendix B of this part. | |||||
| 40:40:25.0.1.1.1.0.1.3 | 40 | Protection of Environment | I | D | 136 | PART 136—GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS | § 136.3 Identification of test procedures. | EPA | [38 FR 28758, Oct. 16, 1973] | (a) Parameters or pollutants, for which methods are approved, are listed together with test procedure descriptions and references in Tables IA, IB, IC, ID, IE, IF, IG, and IH of this section. The methods listed in Tables IA, IB, IC, ID, IE, IF, IG, and IH are incorporated by reference, see paragraph (b) of this section, with the exception of EPA Methods 200.7, 601-613, 624.1, 625.1, 1613, 1624, and 1625. The full texts of Methods 601-613, 624.1, 625.1, 1613, 1624, and 1625 are printed in appendix A of this part, and the full text of Method 200.7 is printed in appendix C of this part. The full text for determining the method detection limit when using the test procedures is given in appendix B of this part. In the event of a conflict between the reporting requirements of 40 CFR parts 122 and 125 and any reporting requirements associated with the methods listed in these tables, the provisions of 40 CFR parts 122 and 125 are controlling and will determine a permittee's reporting requirements. The full texts of the referenced test procedures are incorporated by reference into Tables IA, IB, IC, ID, IE, IF, IG, and IH. The date after the method number indicates the latest editorial change of the method. The discharge parameter values for which reports are required must be determined by one of the standard analytical test procedures incorporated by reference and described in Tables IA, IB, IC, ID, IE, IF, IG, and IH or by any alternate test procedure which has been approved by the Administrator under the provisions of paragraph (d) of this section and §§ 136.4 and 136.5. Under certain circumstances (paragraph (c) of this section, § 136.5(a) through (d) or 40 CFR 401.13,) other additional or alternate test procedures may be used. Table IA—List of Approved Biological Methods for Wastewater and Sewage Sludge Table IA notes: 1 The method must be specified when results are reported. 2 A 0.45-µm membrane filter (MF) or other pore size certified by the manufacturer to fully retain organisms to be cultivated and to be fr… | |||||
| 40:40:25.0.1.1.1.0.1.4 | 40 | Protection of Environment | I | D | 136 | PART 136—GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS | § 136.4 Application for and approval of alternate test procedures for nationwide use. | EPA | [77 FR 29809, May 18, 2012, as amended at 82 FR 40874, Aug. 28, 2017] | (a) A written application for review of an alternate test procedure (alternate method) for nationwide use may be made by letter via email or by hard copy in triplicate to the National Alternate Test Procedure (ATP) Program Coordinator (National Coordinator), Office of Science and Technology (4303T), Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. Any application for an ATP under this paragraph (a) shall: (1) Provide the name and address of the responsible person or firm making the application. (2) Identify the pollutant(s) or parameter(s) for which nationwide approval of an alternate test procedure is being requested. (3) Provide a detailed description of the proposed alternate test procedure, together with references to published or other studies confirming the general applicability of the alternate test procedure for the analysis of the pollutant(s) or parameter(s) in wastewater discharges from representative and specified industrial or other categories. (4) Provide comparability data for the performance of the proposed alternative test procedure compared to the performance of the reference method. (b) The National Coordinator may request additional information and analyses from the applicant in order to evaluate whether the alternate test procedure satisfies the applicable requirements of this part. (c) Approval for nationwide use. (1) After a review of the application and any additional analyses requested from the applicant, the National Coordinator will notify the applicant, in writing, of whether the National Coordinator will recommend approval or disapproval of the alternate test procedure for nationwide use in CWA programs. If the application is not recommended for approval, the National Coordinator may specify what additional information might lead to a reconsideration of the application and notify the Regional Alternate Test Procedure Coordinators of the disapproval recommendation. Based on the National Coordinator's recommended disapprova… | |||||
| 40:40:25.0.1.1.1.0.1.5 | 40 | Protection of Environment | I | D | 136 | PART 136—GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS | § 136.5 Approval of alternate test procedures for limited use. | EPA | [77 FR 29809, May 18, 2012, as amended at 82 FR 40875, Aug. 28, 2017] | (a) Any person may request the Regional ATP Coordinator to approve the use of an alternate test procedure in the Region. (b) When the request for the use of an alternate test procedure concerns use in a State with an NPDES permit program approved pursuant to section 402 of the Act, the requestor shall first submit an application for limited use to the Director of the State agency having responsibility for issuance of NPDES permits within such State ( i.e., permitting authority). The Director will forward the application to the Regional ATP Coordinator with a recommendation for or against approval. (c) Any application for approval of an alternate test procedure for limited use may be made by letter, email or by hard copy. The application shall include the following: (1) Provide the name and address of the applicant and the applicable ID number of the existing or pending permit(s) and issuing agency for which use of the alternate test procedure is requested, and the discharge serial number. (2) Identify the pollutant or parameter for which approval of an alternate test procedure is being requested. (3) Provide justification for using testing procedures other than those specified in Tables IA through IH of § 136.3, or in the NPDES permit. (4) Provide a detailed description of the proposed alternate test procedure, together with references to published studies of the applicability of the alternate test procedure to the effluents in question. (5) Provide comparability data for the performance of the proposed alternate test procedure compared to the performance of the reference method. (d) Approval for limited use. (1) The Regional ATP Coordinator will review the application and notify the applicant and the appropriate State agency of approval or rejection of the use of the alternate test procedure. The approval may be restricted to use only with respect to a specific discharge or facility (and its laboratory) or, at the discretion of the Regional ATP Coordinator, to all dischargers or facilities (and their … | |||||
| 40:40:25.0.1.1.1.0.1.6 | 40 | Protection of Environment | I | D | 136 | PART 136—GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS | § 136.6 Method modifications and analytical requirements. | EPA | [77 FR 29810, May 18, 2012, as amended at 82 FR 40875, Aug. 28, 2017; 86 FR 27260, May 19, 2021] | (a) Definitions of terms used in this section —(1) Analyst means the person or laboratory using a test procedure (analytical method) in this part. (2) Chemistry of the method means the reagents and reactions used in a test procedure that allow determination of the analyte(s) of interest in an environmental sample. (3) Determinative technique means the way in which an analyte is identified and quantified (e.g., colorimetry, mass spectrometry). (4) Equivalent performance means that the modified method produces results that meet or exceed the QC acceptance criteria of the approved method. (5) Method-defined analyte means an analyte defined solely by the method used to determine the analyte. Such an analyte may be a physical parameter, a parameter that is not a specific chemical, or a parameter that may be comprised of a number of substances. Examples of such analytes include temperature, oil and grease, total suspended solids, total phenolics, turbidity, chemical oxygen demand, and biochemical oxygen demand. (6) QC means “quality control.” (b) Method modifications. (1) If the underlying chemistry and determinative technique in a modified method are essentially the same as an approved Part 136 method, then the modified method is an equivalent and acceptable alternative to the approved method provided the requirements of this section are met. However, those who develop or use a modification to an approved (Part 136) method must document that the performance of the modified method, in the matrix to which the modified method will be applied, is equivalent to the performance of the approved method. If such a demonstration cannot be made and documented, then the modified method is not an acceptable alternative to the approved method. Supporting documentation must, if applicable, include the routine initial demonstration of capability and ongoing QC including determination of precision and accuracy, detection limits, and matrix spike recoveries. Initial demonstration of capability typically includes an… | |||||
| 40:40:25.0.1.1.1.0.1.7 | 40 | Protection of Environment | I | D | 136 | PART 136—GUIDELINES ESTABLISHING TEST PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLLUTANTS | § 136.7 Quality assurance and quality control. | EPA | [77 FR 29813, May 18, 2012] | The permittee/laboratory shall use suitable QA/QC procedures when conducting compliance analyses with any part 136 chemical method or an alternative method specified by the permitting authority. These QA/QC procedures are generally included in the analytical method or may be part of the methods compendium for approved Part 136 methods from a consensus organization. For example, Standard Methods contains QA/QC procedures in the Part 1000 section of the Standard Methods Compendium. The permittee/laboratory shall follow these QA/QC procedures, as described in the method or methods compendium. If the method lacks QA/QC procedures, the permittee/laboratory has the following options to comply with the QA/QC requirements: (a) Refer to and follow the QA/QC published in the “equivalent” EPA method for that parameter that has such QA/QC procedures; (b) Refer to the appropriate QA/QC section(s) of an approved part 136 method from a consensus organization compendium; (c)(1) Incorporate the following twelve quality control elements, where applicable, into the laboratory's documented standard operating procedure (SOP) for performing compliance analyses when using an approved part 136 method when the method lacks such QA/QC procedures. One or more of the twelve QC elements may not apply to a given method and may be omitted if a written rationale is provided indicating why the element(s) is/are inappropriate for a specific method. (i) Demonstration of Capability (DOC); (ii) Method Detection Limit (MDL); (iii) Laboratory reagent blank (LRB), also referred to as method blank (MB); (iv) Laboratory fortified blank (LFB), also referred to as a spiked blank, or laboratory control sample (LCS); (v) Matrix spike (MS) and matrix spike duplicate (MSD), or laboratory fortified matrix (LFM) and LFM duplicate, may be used for suspected matrix interference problems to assess precision; (vi) Internal standards (for GC/MS analyses), surrogate standards (for organic analysis) or tracers (for radiochemistry); (vii) Calibration (initial … |
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