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ESB Laboratory -- Region 6: South Central
  Serving Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas and 66 Tribes
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The Contract Laboratory Program

The Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) is a national program of commercial contractor laboratories supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Superfund Program.
The CLP provides chemical analytical services using state-of-the-art technology for the ten EPA Regions. The program is structured to provide data of known and documented quality for use in supporting EPA enforcement actions or other user needs. To achieve this goal, the CLP has established strict quality assurance procedures and detailed documentation requirements.

The CLP is directed by the Analytical Operations Center (AOC) in the Office of Emergency and Remedial Response (OERR) in the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER). AOC includes the Organic and Inorganic Program Coordinators and Administrative Project Officers (APOs) for the CLP laboratories, the Project Officer for the Contract Laboratory Analytical Services Support (CLASS) contract, the Project Officer for the Quality Assurance Technical Support (QATS) contract, the National Automated Data Processing (ADP) Manager, and the Quality Assurance Coordinator.

The ten EPA Regions are the primary clients of the CLP. Each Region has established a Regional Sample Control Center (RSCC) that schedules all Regional CLP analysis requests. The Regional Technical Project Officers (TPO) monitors the contract laboratories located in their Regions, under the guidance of AOC. The TPO is the sole Regional official who may contact the CLP laboratories. The RSCC coordinates the sampling efforts and serves as the central point of contact for sampling questions and problem resolution.

The Regional Site Manager is responsible for coordinating the development of data quality objectives and for overseeing project specific remedial contractors, state officials, or private parties conducting site sampling efforts.

Analytical Services

 

ORGANIC

Routine Analytical Services

 

Inorganic

Routine Analytical Services

 

Multi-Media, Multi- Concentration

OLM04.2 SOW

 

Low Concentration Water

OLC03.2 SOW

Multi-Media, Multi-Concentration

ILM04.1 SOW

Concentration

Matrix

Fractions

 

 

 

Low/Medium

Water,Soil/Sediments

Volatiles (VOAs)

Semi-Volatiles (SVs)

Pesticides/PCBs

 

 

 

 

Low

Water only

Volatiles (VOAs)

Semi-Volatiles (SVs)

Pesticides/PCBs

 

 

 

 

Low/Medium

Water,Soil/Sediments

Total Metals

Dissolved Metals

Cyanide

 

Method Flexibility - Establishing Analytical Requirements within the CLP Statements of Work




 

 
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