N.J. Admin. Code § 7:18-1.3

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 9, May 6, 2024

Section 7:18-1.3 - Purposes of the regulations

(a) This chapter is promulgated for the following purposes:

1. To establish a certification program for laboratories performing environmental analyses, and to confine a laboratory's scope of certification to the specific parameters, techniques, method references, and corresponding approved methods as shown on the certified environmental laboratory's annual certified parameter list;

2. To establish the administrative procedures to be followed by certified environmental laboratories, and by laboratories seeking to become certified environmental laboratories;

3. To require that certification status be contingent upon continued compliance with the standards of performance set forth herein, including, but not limited to, standards pertaining to facility conditions, equipment and supplies, personnel, quality assurance and quality control, data reporting and data maintenance; and

4. To establish the enforcement procedures that the Department shall follow to ensure that a certified environmental laboratory is in compliance with this chapter.

(b) Compliance with this chapter will assist a laboratory in meeting the data quality requirements of State regulatory programs with regard to accuracy, precision, completeness, comparability, and representativeness. These rules regulate sample collection (acute toxicity testing only), handling, preservation, and analysis. The laboratory shall produce data with known quality assurance and quality control procedures, and in accordance with approved techniques and reference methods.

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