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GUIDANCE MANUAL FOR THE PREPARATION OF DEMONSTRATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT PLANS FOR THE VERIFICATION OF FIELD CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES
Citation:
BILLETS, S. GUIDANCE MANUAL FOR THE PREPARATION OF DEMONSTRATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT PLANS FOR THE VERIFICATION OF FIELD CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/540/R-10/001, 2010.
Impact/Purpose:
The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance to testing organizations and technology vendors for preparing a demonstration plan for the performance testing of field characterization and monitoring technologies. A carefully developed demonstration plan assures that testing will be performed in a manner that generates the high quality data necessary to verify the performance of the technology. Furthermore, the demonstration plan assures that all appropriate health, safety, regulatory, quality assurance (QA), and environmental concerns related to the demonstration are addressed. This manual provides general guidance on the various aspects of the performance verification process, and specifically how to develop such a plan. Where appropriate, specific examples of how the guidance can or has been implemented by the EPA Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Monitoring and Measurement Technology (MMT) Program are provided for reference.
Description:
This work represents the technical and editorial contributions of a large number of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees and others familiar with or interested in the demonstration and evaluation of innovative site characterization and monitoring technologies. In the mid-1990s, the EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division - Las Vegas first convened a body of experts – the Consortium Action Team – to define the elements of a guidance document. Subsequent discussions and meetings were held to revise and expand the contents. EPA staff from each of the 10 Regions, the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and the Office of Research and Development participated in this process. This interdisciplinary, inter-programmatic team was convened to ensure that the demonstration procedures articulated were acceptable across the Agency. This collaboration resulted in the development of a 1996 interim guidance document for developing demonstration plans to gain the acceptance of innovative technologies for use in characterizing and monitoring the environment. In 2008, the interim guidance document was revised and updated to create this document which now represents the current approach to development of demonstration/quality assurance project plans for independent performance testing of site characterization and monitoring technologies. For the most part, it relies on the experiences and the evolution of thinking gained over the last 12 years of conducting demonstrations under the Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Monitoring and Measurement Technology (MMT) and other technology evaluation programs.