(a) A
certified environmental laboratory shall employ qualified personnel who possess
the education, training, and experience required under this section. The
laboratory shall maintain current employee records that include a resume and
college transcript documenting each employee's training, experience, duties,
and dates of relevant employment. The laboratory shall include at least the
following personnel:
1. An environmental
laboratory manager, who shall be the individual in responsible charge of the
laboratory;
2. One or more
supervisors, who shall be qualified in accordance with the applicable
provisions of (b) below to perform the tests and analyses within the Category
or Categories for which the environmental laboratory is certified, or seeks
certification. The environmental laboratory manager may also serve as a
supervisor provided that the manager meets the qualifications for
supervisor;
3. A Quality Assurance
(QA) Officer. For a laboratory that is certified or seeks to be certified in
any of Categories CLP01 through 6, the QA Officer shall meet the applicable
requirements of (b)9 below. For any other laboratory, the QA Officer shall meet
the applicable requirements of (b) below for a supervisor in any Category,
provided, however, that an individual who meets only the requirements for a
supervisor in the Categories listed in (b)2 below may serve as the QA Officer
only in those Categories; and
4. If
required under (b) below, technical support staff, who shall be qualified in
accordance with the applicable provisions of (b) below for the tests and
analyses within the Category or Categories for which the environmental
laboratory is certified, or seeks certification.
(b) No environmental laboratory shall be
certified to perform analyses in a Category unless the supervisor and operating
personnel (where so indicated) meet the following requirements:
1. For microbiological and parasitology and
molecular microbiology testing in Categories DW01-DW02, NPW01-NPW02, and SCM01,
the supervisor shall meet the requirements of at least one of the qualification
levels listed below:
Qualification Level |
Degree |
Microbiology Credits |
Years of Experience Microbiological Analysis<3>
|
A |
>/= BA/BS<1> |
4<2> |
1 |
B |
AA<1> |
4<2> |
3 |
C |
None |
0<2> |
5 |
<1> Degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or
environmental science from an accredited institution.
<2> Courses from an accredited college, or equivalent
course from a training institute if supervisor has less than four semester
hours credit in bacteriology.
<3> Unless the requirements of footnotes 1 and 2 are
more stringent, personnel requirements for Parasitology and Molecular
Microbiology shall be in accordance with all associated method
requirements.
2. For
Chemical Testing in analyze-immediately and continuous monitoring Categories
DW04 and NPW04, and Categories DW03 and NPW03 for turbidity and
residue-settleable, the supervisor shall have had at least three months of
experience in performing these tests;
3. For Chemical Testing in Inorganic
Parameters, Characteristics of Hazardous Waste and Physical Analyses, Inorganic
Parameters and Preparation, and Inorganics - Non-Metals Analysis Categories:
DW03, NPW03, SCM02-03, AE01, and BT01, the supervisor shall meet the
requirements of at least one of the qualification levels listed below:
Qualification Level |
Degree |
Years of Chemical Experience Chemical Analysis and/or
Training |
A |
>/= BA/BS<1> |
1<2> |
B |
AA<1> |
3<2> |
C |
None |
5<2> |
<1> Degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or
environmental science from an accredited institution.
<2> Have at least one year of laboratory experience in
the chemical analysis of drinking water, non-potable water, solid and chemical
materials, air and/or emissions, or biological tissue samples.
4. For Chemical Testing in Metals,
Metals-ICP, ICP/MS and DCP, Metals Preparation Categories, Inorganics - Metals
Analysis, and Asbestos Analysis Categories: DW05-DW07, NPW05-NPW08,
SCM04-SCM07, AE02-AE03, AE07, and BT02-BT04, the supervisor shall meet the
requirements of at least one of the qualification levels listed below:
Qualification Level |
Degree |
Years of Chemical Experience Chemical Analysis and/or
Training |
A |
>/= BA/BS<1> |
1<2> |
B |
AA<1> |
3<2> |
C |
None |
5<3> |
<1> Degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or
environmental science from an accredited institution.
<2> At least one year of laboratory experience in the
analysis of drinking water, non-potable water, solid and chemical materials,
air and/or emissions, or biological tissue samples; and have six months
experience in one or more instrumental techniques for the determination of
metals, minerals (asbestos), metal ions, or anions, or have completed a formal
training course in the operation of one or more of those instruments.
<3> Same as footnote 2 above except that three years of
laboratory experience in the analysis of drinking water, non-potable water,
solid and chemical materials, air and/or emissions, or biological tissue
samples is required.
5.
Operators of ICP/MS instruments shall meet the requirements of (b)4 above, but
in addition, are required to have both six months operating experience and a
formal training course in ICP/MS;
6. Operators of transmission electron
microscopes (TEMs) shall meet one of the qualification levels of (b)4 above,
but the number of years of experience required at all levels must include one
year in determining asbestos in air or water using a TEM and energy dispersive
x-ray analyzer. Operators shall have completed a formal training course in
transmission electron microscopy;
7. For Chemical Testing in Organic Parameters
- Chromatography, Organic Parameters - Chromatography/MS, Organic Sample
Preparation Categories, Organics Analysis and Polychlorinated
Dibenzo--p-dioxins and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans Categories: DW08-DW09,
NPW09-NPW11, SCM08-SCM11, AE04, and BT05-BT07, the supervisor shall meet the
requirements of at least one of the qualification levels listed below:
Qualification Level |
Degree |
Years of Chemical Experience Chemical Analysis and/or
Training |
A |
>/= BA/BS<1> |
1<2> |
B |
AA<1> |
3<2> |
C |
None |
5<3> |
<1> Degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or
environmental science from an accredited institution.
<2> Have at least one year of laboratory experience in
chemical testing of drinking water, non-potable water, solid and chemical
materials, air and/or emissions, or biological tissue samples; and have six
months experience in the instrumental technique (GC, LC, GC/MS, or LC/MS) being
practiced for the analysis of drinking water, non-potable water, solid and
chemical materials, air and/or emissions, or biological tissue samples. A
formal training course in the instrumental technique for which certification is
sought may be substituted for the experience requirements.
<3> Same as footnote 2 above except that three years of
laboratory experience in chemical testing of non-potable water, solid and
chemical materials, air and/or emissions, or biological tissue samples is
required.
8. Operators of
GC/MS, and LC/MS instruments shall meet the requirements of (b)7 above, but in
addition, are required to have both six months operating experience and a
formal training course in the technique being practiced;
9. For Chemical Testing in Categories: NPW
and SCM-Multi-Concentration Inorganics, NPW and SCM Multi-Concentration
Organics, and NPW and SCM-Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Polychlorinated
Dibenzofurans CLP01 - CLP06, the laboratory shall have qualified personnel to
perform the analyses under the CLP categories of analysis.
10. For Radiochemical Testing in
Radiochemistry - Radioactivity and Radionuclides, Radon in Drinking Water,
Radon in Non-Potable Water, and Radionuclides Analysis Categories: DW10-DW11,
NPW13-NPW14, SCM12, and AE05, the supervisor shall meet the requirements of at
least one of the qualification levels listed below:
Qualification Level |
Degree |
Years of Experience Chemical Analysis and/or Training
|
A |
>/= BA/BS<1> |
5<2> |
B |
AA1 |
7<2> |
<1> Degree in a chemical, radiochemical, radioisotope
technology, biological, physical, or environmental science from an accredited
institution.
<2> Two years of experience must be in radiochemical
analysis.
11. For Category
AE08, Radon/Radon Progeny-in-Air, the supervisor shall meet the requirements of
at least one of the qualification levels listed below:
Qualification Level |
Degree |
Years of Chemical Experience Chemical Analysis and/or
Training |
A |
>/= BA/BS<1> |
2<2> |
B |
AA<1> |
4<2> |
C |
None |
6<2> |
<1> Degree in a chemical, radiochemical, radioisotope
technology, biological, physical, or environmental science from an accredited
institution.
<2> Two years of experience must be in radiochemical
analysis.
12. For Toxicity
Testing in Category NPW12, the supervisor shall meet the requirements of at
least one of the qualification levels listed below:
Qualification Level |
Degree |
Credits |
Years of Experience Toxicity Testing and/or Training
|
A |
>/= BA/BS<1> |
6<2> |
1<3,4> |
B |
MA<3> or MS<3> |
6<2> |
_<4> |
<1> Degree in a biological or environmental science
from an accredited institution.
<2> Shall include or be supplemented by six semester
credit hours in any of the following subjects:
(a) General Zoology;
(b) Biological Methods and Experimental
Design;
(c) Ichthyology.
<3> Shall have successfully completed at least six
definitive bioassays prior to applying for supervisor. The laboratory shall
retain the documentation for these assays, and make it available during an
audit by a representative of the Department.
<4> Demonstrate competency in the operation of bioassay
equipment and techniques during an audit by a representative of the
Department.
13.
For Laboratory Developed and/or Non-Standard Method Categories: DW13, NPW16,
SCM14, AE06, AE09 or BT08, the supervisor shall meet the most stringent
requirements listed for the category area of interest.
14. If the bachelor degree is required and
was granted from a regionally accredited United States or Canadian college or
university, the requirement is satisfied. If the degree was granted by a
foreign college or university, a copy of the evaluation by the World Education
Service, Inc., P.O. Box 5087, Bowling Green Station, New York, NY 10274-5087,
(212) 966-6311, shall be provided to the Department; and
15. The Department may waive the need for
specified years of experience or academic training if an individual
demonstrates that he or she has knowledge, expertise and ability that is at
least equal to what would be expected from an individual with the required
amount of experience and academic training.