Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board's (ELAB) Products and Reports include the information, advice and recommendations made to the Agency. The most recent products are provided below with prior decisions found in the EPA Archives.
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.- ELAB May 20, 2015 Letter to EPA in regard to the Clean Water Act Method Update Rule for Analysis of Effluent (PDF)(20 pp, 296 K, 05/20/2015)
- ELAB October 22, 2014 Letter to EPA regarding Selected Ion Monitoring (PDF)(1 pg, 204 K, 10/22/2014)
- ELAB July 29, 2014 Letter to the EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response regarding the Intergovernmental Data Quality Task Force (PDF)(1 pg, 24 K, 07/29/2014)
- ELAB June 20, 2014 Letter to EPA regarding Method Harmonization (PDF)(2 pp, 42 K, 06/20/2014)
- ELAB June 19, 2014 Letter and Study Report to EPA on Analysis Requirements and pH Preservation for Acrolein and Acrylonitrile (PDF)(5 pp, 167 K, 06/19/2014)
- ELAB March 3, 2014 Letter to EPA in regards to Clean Water Act Method Update Rule (PDF)(2 pp, 57 K, 03/03/2014)
- ELAB February 28, 2014 Letter to EPA regarding the Method Update Rule (PDF)(2 pp, 50 K, 02/28/2014)
- ELAB January 28, 2014 Comments to EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery about SW-846 Update V (PDF)(3 pp, 65 K, 01/28/2014)
- ELAB December 18, 2013 Letter to Forum on Environmental Measurement at EPA regarding the Clean Water Act Method Update Rule (PDF)(1 pg, 85 K, 12/18/2013)
- ELAB comments to the EPA's Office of Water per request for their review and feedback to Method 608 Revision A before posting in the Federal Register (PDF)(2 pp, 110 K, 07/23/2013)
- ELAB June 24, 2013 Letter to EPA regarding Comments on Draft Methods 624B and 625B (PDF)(3 pp, 265 K, 06/24/2013)
- ELAB June 24, 2013 Letter to EPA regarding Compound Identification Inconsistency (PDF)(3 pp, 242 K, 06/24/2013)
- ELAB February 21, 2013 Letter to EPA regarding Comments on Proposed Revisions to Methods 624 and 625 (PDF)(7 pp, 143 K, 02/21/2013)
- ELAB November 2, 2012 Letter to EPA Forum on Environmental Mesurements in regard to the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (PDF)(7 pp, 456 K, 11/02/2012)
- Draft 2008 Crosswalk between the OW Certification Manual and the TNI Environmental Laboratory Sector Accreditation Standard (PDF)(69 pp, 935 K, 12/15/2008)
- ELAB July 1, 1998 Recommendations for the Use of Checklists during a NELAC On-site Assessment [Will be moved to the EPA Archives after 30 days] (PDF)(11 pp, 213 K, 07/01/1998)