Streamlining the Method Approval Process: Performance-Based Methods in the Office of Water

摘要

In 1997 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a Streamlining initiativernto implement a performance-based measurement system (PBMS) in EPA's Office of Water (OW).rnThe proposed action would only affect states if they chose to adopt the streamlined process as partrnof their laboratory auditing programs. The paper outlines the proposed process and public reactionrnto it.