Ariz. Admin. Code § 9-14-601

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 45, November 8, 2024

Section R9-14-601 - Definitions

In addition to the definitions in A.R.S. § 36-495, the following definitions apply in this Article, unless otherwise specified:

1. "Acceptance criteria" means the range of satisfactory test results for a parameter.

2. "ADEQ" means the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

3. "Affiliate" means a business organization that:

a. Controls or has the power to control the business organization that owns the laboratory,

b. Is controlled by or could be controlled by the business organization that owns the laboratory, or

c. Could be controlled by a third business organization that could also control the business organization that owns the laboratory.

4. "Alternate method" means an analytical test procedure or technique that is not an approved method and for which approval is requested under R9-14-610(C).

5. "Analyst" means an individual who performs compliance testing at a laboratory.

6. "Analyte" means the substance or chemical constituent being sought or measured in an analytical procedure.

7. "Applicant" means a person or persons requesting an initial or renewal license under R9-14-603, approval of an alternate method or method alteration under R9-14-610(C), or approval of an exemption under R9-14-615(D), and includes, as required under A.R.S. § 36-495.03(D), the owner and, if the owner is not the laboratory director, the laboratory director.

8. "Approved method" means an analytical test procedure or technique authorized by the Department to test for the presence of a particular contaminant or characteristic and includes:

a. An alternate method approved by the Department under R9-14-610(E), and

b. An analytical test procedure or technique currently authorized by the Department that is used with a method alteration approved by the Department under R9-14-610(E).

9. "ASTM" means American Society for Testing and Materials.

10. "Blind proficiency testing" means the Department's determination of a laboratory analyst's ability to analyze samples correctly, accomplished by submitting samples for testing in such a manner that the laboratory analyst is not aware that the proficiency testing is occurring.

11. "Business organization" means an entity such as a sole proprietorship, an unincorporated association, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, or a governmental entity.

12. "Calibration curve" means a graphical display of the functional relationship between the instrument or analytical device response and the analyte amount.

13. "Calibration model" means a mathematical form for a calibration curve.

14. "CCC" means calibration check compounds.

15. "CCV" means continuing calibration verification standard.

16. "Client" means a person that submits a sample to a laboratory for compliance testing.

17. "Contaminant" means a matter, pollutant, hazardous substance, or other substance for which a sample is being tested.

18. "Contiguous grounds" means real property that can be enclosed by a single unbroken boundary line that does not enclose property owned or leased by another.

19. "Critical step" means a task in the testing procedure that is required to be performed within a specified time period by regulation, method, standard operating procedure, or quality assurance plan.

20. "Current" means up-to-date and extending to the present time.

21. "Data outlier" means a test result that falls outside of acceptance criteria.

22. "Days" means calendar days, excluding the day of the act, event, or default from which a designated period of time begins to run and excluding the last day of the period if it is a Saturday, a Sunday, or a legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday, or a legal holiday.

23. "DBCP" means 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane.

24. "DDT" means dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane.

25. "DOC" means dissolved organic carbon.

26. "ECD" means electron capture detector.

27. "EDB" means 1,2-Dibromoethane.

28. "Effluent" means an outflow, as of a stream that flows out of a facility.

29. "EOX" means extractable organic halides.

30. "EP" means extraction procedure.

31. "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

32. "FID" means flame ionization detector.

33. "FL" means fluorescence.

34. "FT-IR" means Fourier transform infrared.

35. "GC" means gas chromatography.

36. "HEM" means n-Hexane extractable material.

37. "HPLC" means high performance liquid chromatography.

38. "HRGC" means high resolution gas chromatography.

39. "HRMS" means high resolution mass spectrometry.

40. "ICV" means initial calibration verification.

41. "Initial Demonstration of Capability" or "IDOC" means a test performed by an analyst, as prescribed by a method, to document the analyst's ability to perform the method.

42. "Investigation" means an evaluation of a licensee's or applicant's compliance with A.R.S. Title 36, Chapter 4.3 and this Article conducted by the Department upon its own initiative or upon receipt of a written complaint and may include a laboratory inspection.

43. "IPC" means instrument performance check.

44. "Key reference" means a document incorporated by reference in R9-14-610(B).

45. "Laboratory inspection" means the Department's assessment of operations at a laboratory to determine an applicant's or a licensee's compliance with A.R.S. Title 36, Chapter 4.3 and this Article.

46. "LCS" means laboratory control sample.

47. "LDO" means Luminescence Measurement of Dissolved Oxygen.

48. "Level I license" means an approval issued by the Department authorizing compliance testing of one to nine total parameters at a laboratory.

49. "Level II license" means an approval issued by the Department authorizing compliance testing of 10 to 17 total parameters at a laboratory.

50. "Level III license" means an approval issued by the Department authorizing compliance testing of more than 17 total parameters at a laboratory.

51. "LFB" means laboratory fortified blank.

52. "LFM" means laboratory fortified sample matrix.

53. "Licensee" means a person or persons to whom the Department issues a license to operate a laboratory and includes, as required under A.R.S. § 36-495.03(D), the owner and, if the owner is not the laboratory director, the laboratory director.

54. "Limit of detection" means an analyte- and matrix-specific estimate of the minimum amount of a substance that an analytical process can reliably detect.

55. "Limit of quantitation" or "LOQ" means the minimum levels, concentrations, or quantities of a target variable such as an analyte that can be reported with a specific degree of confidence.

56. "LRMS" means low resolution mass spectrometry.

57. "Maximum holding time" means the greatest number of minutes, hours, or days that a sample may be kept between sampling and the beginning of analysis and still be considered a valid sample for compliance testing.

58. "Method" means an analytical test procedure or technique.

59. "Method alteration" means a change to an established method.

60. "Method reporting limit" means the minimum concentration of a contaminant reported after analyzing a sample in a given parameter, determined after corrections have been made for sample dilution and sample weight.

61. "Mobile laboratory" means a non-stationary facility where compliance testing is performed.

62. "MPN" means most probable number.

63. "MRL" means minimum reporting level.

64. "MS" means mass spectrometry.

65. "MSE" means microscale solvent extraction.

66. "MSRV" means Modified Semisolid Rappaport-Vassiliadis.

67. "NPD" means nitrogen phosphorous detector.

68. "NPDES" means national pollutant discharge elimination system.

69. "NTIS" means the National Technical Information Service, which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

70. "NTU" means nephelometric turbidity units.

71. "ONPG-MUG" means ortho-nitrophenyl-[BETA]D-galactopyranoside-4-methylumbelliferyl-[BETA]D-glucuronide.

72. "Owner" means a person that has controlling legal or equitable interest in and authority over a laboratory's operations.

73. "PAH" means polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon.

74. "Parameter" means the combination of a particular type of sample with a particular approved method by which the sample will be analyzed for a particular analyte or characteristic.

75. "PB" means particle beam.

76. "PCB" means polychlorinated biphenyls.

77. "PCDD" means polychlorinated dibenzodioxins.

78. "PCDF" means polychlorinated dibenzofurans.

79. "PDA" means photodiode array.

80. "PID" means photoionization detection.

81. "POX" means purgeable organic halides.

82. "Precision" means repeatability of measurement data, specifically the similarity of successive independent measurements of a single magnitude generated by repeated applications of a process under specified conditions.

83. "Proficiency testing" means a mechanism in which samples with known characteristics are submitted to a laboratory for analysis to determine a laboratory analyst's ability to analyze samples correctly.

84. "Proficiency testing service" means an independent company or other person acceptable to the EPA or, if the EPA has not indicated acceptance of an independent company or other person for a parameter, acceptable to the Department based on recognition from a national organization such as the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program that:

a. Is the source for samples with known characteristics for proficiency testing, and

b. Assesses the acceptability of a laboratory analyst's results from the samples with known characteristics during proficiency testing.

85. "Qualified" means explained in documentation.

86. "Quality assurance plan" means documentation that meets the requirements of R9-14-615(B).

87. "Quality control checks" means the steps taken by laboratory analysts to monitor the accuracy and precision of sample analysis.

88. "QCS" means quality control sample.

89. "RDX" means Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine.

90. "Records" means all written, recorded, and electronic documentation necessary to reconstruct all laboratory activities that produce data and includes all information relating to the laboratory's equipment, analytical test methods, and related activities.

91. "RPD" means relative percent difference.

92. "Ruggedness" means the ability of a method to withstand changes in environmental factors and produce repeat-able results.

93. "Sample" means a specimen that is a representative part of a whole or a single item from a group.

94. "Single laboratory" means an individual laboratory facility or multiple laboratory facilities located on contiguous grounds and having the same owner.

95. "Small business" means a business organization, including its affiliates, that is independently owned and operated, that is not dominant in its field, and that employs fewer than 100 full-time employees or had gross annual receipts of less than $4 million in its last fiscal year.

96. "SOUR" means specific oxygen uptake rate.

97. "SPE" means solid-phase extraction.

98. "SPLP" means synthetic precipitation leaching procedure.

99. "Standard operating procedure" means a documented process for carrying on business, analysis, or action, with instructions for performing routine or repetitive tasks.

100. "Statistical outlier" means an individual data point that has a value far from those of the other data points in a set and that has been determined through statistical analysis to have been derived from a different population than the other data points.

101. "TCLP" means toxicity characteristics leaching procedure.

102. "TDS" means total dissolved solids.

103. "TE" means thermal extraction.

104. "TNT" means trinitrotoluene.

105. "TOC" means total organic carbon.

106. "TOX" means total organic halides.

107. "Traceability" means the establishment of an unbroken chain of comparisons to the reference of origin.

108. "TS" means thermospray.

109. "TSS" means total suspended solids.

110. "UV" means ultraviolet.

111. "Valid" means that a license, certificate, or other form of authorization is in full force and effect and not suspended.

112. "VOC" means volatile organic compound.

113. "VOST" means volatile organic sampling train.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-14-601

Adopted effective August 16, 1985 (Supp. 85-4). Former Section R9-14-601 repealed, new Section R9-14-601adopted effective December 20, 1991 (Supp. 91-4). Amended effective June 20, 1997 (Supp. 97-2). Amended by final rulemaking at 7 A.A.R. 184, effective December 15, 2000 (Supp. 00-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 12 A.A.R. 4798, effective December 5, 2006 (Supp. 06-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 22 A.A.R. 2683, effective 10/1/2016.