Rule 391-3-26-.02 - Definitions(1) "Accreditation" means the procedure by which an accreditation agency, a state, or the U.S. Environmental Agency evaluates and acknowledges a program as meeting certain predetermined qualifications and standards.(2) "Accreditation Agency" means an agency that meets the requirements of 391-3-26-.04(2) and which the Division has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for the purposes of 391-3-26-.04(1)(c).(3) "Approved" means the acceptance by the Division of a commercial analytical laboratory by accreditation or certification. The approval shall be valid only for the time period specified by the accreditation or certification agency and valid for the test included in the scope of the accreditation or certification.(4) "Certification" means the procedure by which an accreditation agency, a state, or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluates and acknowledges a program as meeting certain predetermined qualifications or standards.(5) "Commercial Analytical Laboratory" means a laboratory which performs analyses of environmental samples or media on a fee or contract basis. A laboratory operated by the state, a city, county, or local authority, or an industrial facility is typically not considered a commercial analytical laboratory for the purposes of these rules.(6) "Data Submitted for Regulatory Purposes" means any data which is to be submitted to the Division, or required to be retained on site for review by the Division, which is required by a permit, rule, statute, or order; except for the following: (a) Initial Hazardous Sites Response Act notification data submitted under Chapter 391-3-19-.04. Data submitted to a follow-up to such notification would be covered under this rule.(b) Data which is obtained from the analyses of environmental media if such analyses is performed in situ (examples of this include but not limited to pH, chlorine residual, opacity, turbidity, on-site instrumental sampling, continuous instrumental monitoring, stream biological sampling data, etc.).(c) Tests for which accreditation is not available from a third party or from another state.(7) "Director" means the Director of the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources.(8) "Division" means the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources.(9) "Laboratory" means a body that calibrates and/or tests. A laboratory may be at a permanent location, a temporary location, or may be a mobile facility. In any cases where a laboratory forms part of any organization that carries out other activities besides testing, the term "laboratory" refers only to those parts of that organization that are involved in the testing process.(10) "Test" means the technical operation that consists of the determination of one or more characteristics or performance of a given product, material, equipment, organism, physical phenomenon, process, or service according to a specified procedure.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 391-3-26-.02
O.C.G.A. Sec. 12-2-9.
Original Rule entitled "Definitions" adopted. F. Sept. 3, 1999; eff. Sept. 23, 1999.