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BREAKING NEWS
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TCEQ to
Reject Data from Unaccredited Labs after
June 30
Starting July
1, 2008, analytical data submitted to
TCEQ that is related to permitting or
remediation must be generated by a lab
that the
Texas Laboratory
Accreditation Program
has accredited under the
NELAC
standard for matrices, methods, and
parameters of analysis, unless:
- The lab is an
in-house lab and meets one of these
criteria:
- The lab
performs work for its owner, for
another company with a unit located
on the same site, or without
compensation for a governmental
agency or charitable organization.
- The lab is in
another state and is accredited or
inspected by that state.
- The lab is
accredited under federal law.
- The data are
needed for emergency-response
activities and no
TLAP-accredited
lab is available.
- The lab
supplies data for which TCEQ does
not offer accreditation.
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Starting July 1, 2008, TCEQ
will accept analytical data for a permitting or
remediation decision only if the data comply
with all applicable rules for the regulatory
program involved and:
- the lab generating
the data is NELAC-accredited by
TLAP
- TCEQ approved an
exception as described above, or
- the data were
generated on or before June 30, 2008
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