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IERL-RTP PROCEDURES MANUAL: LEVEL 1 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT BIOLOGICAL TESTS
Citation:
Brusick, D. AND R. Young. IERL-RTP PROCEDURES MANUAL: LEVEL 1 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT BIOLOGICAL TESTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/8-81/024 (NTIS PB82228966), 1981.
Description:
The manual gives revised procedures for Level 1 environmental assessment biological tests, and supersedes the first edition, EPA-600/7-77-043 (NTIS No. PB 268484), published in April 1977. The revised biological procedures complement the Level 1 chemical and physical procedures published in October 1978 as IERL-RTP Procedures Manual: Level 1 Environmental Assessment (Second Edition), EPA-600/7-78-201 (NTIS No. PB 293795). Level 1 is a screening phase that identifies, categorizes, and ranks the pollutant potential of influent and effluent streams from industrial and energy-producing processes. The manual is a guide to sampling and analysis professionals in planning and executing the bioassay portion of a phased environmental source assessment program. The manual gives the goals, strategies, and philosophy of a phased approach to environmental assessment. It introduces collection and pretest handling procedures for environmental samples and the recommended Level 1 biological test protocols used to analyze the samples. Basic quality control procedures are discussed, as are possible bioassay procedures for Levels 2 and 3.