Quotations from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General Report
of Audit:
Laboratory
Data Quality at Federal Facility Superfund Sites Audit Report No. E1SKB6-09-0041-7100132,
March 20, 1997
Page 14, DQO Development
- "The environmental
restoration contractor at Hanford developed an effective planning
procedure for defining DQOs. This procedure, shown at Appendix
F, involves key decision makers, including EPA, in the development
of objectives. The outcome of this procedure was a set of DQOs
with the level of detail and information needed by the QAPPs and field
sampling plans. EPA should refine its process to include many
of the aspects of this procedure."
Page 27-28, Recommendations
- "13. Refine
the data quality objectives process by:
- Ensuring the early
involvement of key decision makers.
- Using checklists to
identify all necessary activities.
- Identifying specific
documentation requirements.
- Using the model developed
at the Hanford site as a guide."
Page 61, APPENDIX F
Page 62, Bechtel Hanford's
DQO Process
- (Note the actual ERC DQO
Process flow chart shown on page 62 of the report cannot be attached
in CCMail. Call Sebastian Tindall, BHI, at 372-9195 or Paula Clark,
DOE-RL/ER, at 376-4718, for a hard copy.
Note also that the audit report on Laboratory Data Quality at Federal
Facility Superfund Sites is now on the World Wide Web at: http://www.epa.gov/oig/ereading_room/list397/labsftbl.htm)
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