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Table 6. Elements Typically Contained in a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Title Page. Should include the name of the document Calibration procedures and frequencies. Discusses the and the date it was prepared. The QA officer should sign calibration procedures to be used, the number and the title page, ensuring that field and laboratory concentration of calibration standards, and the personnel are aware of the requirements for precision, calibration range and procedures to establish and verify accuracy, completeness, representativeness, and the calibration of instruments. comparability. Table of contents. Includes a listing of the QAPP Internal QC checks. Identifies the specific internal QC elements and any appendices, figures, and tables. A list methods to be used, including analyses of method of the recipients of official copies of the QAPP should blanks; use of laboratory control samples, and use of also be provided. environmental samples as duplicates, mahix spikes, and duplicates. Project description. Consists of a general paragraph describing the scope of work, general objectives, and Calculation of data quality indicators. Discusses how required measurements. (If the project description is precision, accuracy, completeness, representativeness, discussed in the field sampling plan, it does not need to and comparability goals are to be calculated from the be repeated in the QAPP.) project data.

Proved organization and responsibiliC. Identifies key Corrective actions. Addresses collective actions that field and laboratory personnel or organizations tliat are must be implemented if QA specifications are not met. necessary for each analytical activity during the study. A Corrective actions could include resampling, reanalyzing table or char t showing the organization and lines of samples, or auditing laboratory procedures. Persons authority should be included. The organizational chart responsible for initiating these actions should be should also include all subcontractors and their key identified. points of contact. I he QA officer should be organizationally independent of project management so Data reduction, review, validation and reporting. that the risk of conflict of interest is minimized. Discusses the data review process that is required to assure the validity of the data. Data reduction procedures Data quality objectives. Describes the QA objectives for should be summarized and the persons responsible for the data so that the data can achieve their intended use. data reduction identified. The format for reporting the Project-specific data quality objectives that have been data and the data reporting schedule should be specified. identified for the project, short-term decisions that will be made during the project planning phase, and Preventive maintenance. Discusses the preventive long-term decisions that will be made prior to project maintenance plan that will be implemented to minimize closeout should be highlighted. downtime of field and laboratory instrumentation.

Sampling locations and procedures. References the Audits. Describes the performance, systems, data sections of the field sampling plan that discuss the quality, and management audits that will be performed general rationale for choosing sampling locations and onsite and at the laboratory. the sampling procedures proposed for each matrix. OC reports to management. Discusses QC reports that Sample custody and holding times. References the will be prepared. These reports typically include an appropriate sections (e.g., sample custody/ assessment of accuracy, precision, completeness, documentation) of the field sampling plan for all custody representativeness, and comparability; audit results; and and holding requirements pertaining to the field and significant QA problems encountered. laboratory activities. Sampling and analytical procedures. Identifies the appropriate sampling and analytical test methods that should be used for each environmental sample. Source: Design, Installation and Utilization of Fixed-Fenceline Sample Collection and Monitoring System, US Army Corps, of Engineers, EM 200-1-5 1 October 1997

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