Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 391-3-26-.02 - Definitions
(1) "Accreditation"
means the procedure by which an accreditation agency, a state, or the U.S.
Environmental Agency evaluates and acknowledges a program as meeting certain
predetermined qualifications and standards.
(2) "Accreditation Agency" means an agency
that meets the requirements of
391-3-26-.04(2)
and which the Division has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for the
purposes of
391-3-26-.04(1)(c).
(3) "Approved" means the acceptance by the
Division of a commercial analytical laboratory by accreditation or
certification. The approval shall be valid only for the time period specified
by the accreditation or certification agency and valid for the test included in
the scope of the accreditation or certification.
(4) "Certification" means the procedure by
which an accreditation agency, a state, or the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency evaluates and acknowledges a program as meeting certain predetermined
qualifications or standards.
(5)
"Commercial Analytical Laboratory" means a laboratory which performs analyses
of environmental samples or media on a fee or contract basis. A laboratory
operated by the state, a city, county, or local authority, or an industrial
facility is typically not considered a commercial analytical laboratory for the
purposes of these rules.
(6) "Data
Submitted for Regulatory Purposes" means any data which is to be submitted to
the Division, or required to be retained on site for review by the Division,
which is required by a permit, rule, statute, or order; except for the
following:
(a) Initial Hazardous Sites
Response Act notification data submitted under Chapter
391-3-19-.04. Data submitted to a
follow-up to such notification would be covered under this rule.
(b) Data which is obtained from the analyses
of environmental media if such analyses is performed in situ (examples of this
include but not limited to pH, chlorine residual, opacity, turbidity, on-site
instrumental sampling, continuous instrumental monitoring, stream biological
sampling data, etc.).
(c) Tests for
which accreditation is not available from a third party or from another
state.
(7) "Director"
means the Director of the Environmental Protection Division of the Department
of Natural Resources.
(8)
"Division" means the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of
Natural Resources.
(9) "Laboratory"
means a body that calibrates and/or tests. A laboratory may be at a permanent
location, a temporary location, or may be a mobile facility. In any cases where
a laboratory forms part of any organization that carries out other activities
besides testing, the term "laboratory" refers only to those parts of that
organization that are involved in the testing process.
(10) "Test" means the technical operation
that consists of the determination of one or more characteristics or
performance of a given product, material, equipment, organism, physical
phenomenon, process, or service according to a specified procedure.
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