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Region 2 Quality Assurance Guidance and Standard Operating Procedures

Quality Assurance Guidance

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Title	Date	Special Note
R2 Brownfields QAPP Guidance (pdf) (690.98 KB)	Aug '21	This document contains the required format and content for EPA Region 2 Brownfields Project QAPPs.
Brownfields Site-Specific QAPP Checklist	Aug '20
Technical Assistance Document for Complying with the TC Rule and Implementing TCLP	Mar '94
Optimized UFP-QAPP Worksheets	Mar ‘12	These worksheets should be used for all Region 2 Superfund, Federal Facilities and RCRA QAPPs.
Guidance for the Development of Quality Assurance Project Plans for Environmental Monitoring Projects	Apr '04	This document presents guidance for the development of a Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP) for non-Superfund environmental monitoring projects to be conducted by or for EPA Region 2.
Standard for the Development of Quality Assurance Project Plans for non-Superfund, RCRA, Brownfields Environmental Information Projects	July 2023	EPA Requirements for Quality Assurance Project Plans (EPA Quality Assurance Project Plan Standard) – effective July 21, 2023
Standard for the Development of Quality Management Plans for non-Superfund, RCRA, Brownfields Environmental Information Projects	January 2023	EPA Requirements for Quality Management Plans (EPA Quality Management Plan Standard) – effective January 20, 2023
Guidance for the Development of Quality Management Plans for non-Superfund, RCRA, Brownfield Environmental Monitoring Projects	EPA/240/B-01/002 March 2001 Reissue Notice May 2006	EPA Requirements for Quality Management Plans (QA/R-2) – replaced as of January 20, 2023 with the EPA Quality Management Plan Standard
Guidance for the Development of Quality Assurance Project Plans for non-Superfund, RCRA & Brownfield Environmental Monitoring Projects	EPA/240/B-01/003 March 2001 Reissue Notice May 2006	EPA Requirements for QA Project Plans (QA/R-5) - replaced as of July 21, 2023 with the EPA Quality Assurance Project Plan Standard
Additional Guidance for the Development of Quality Assurance Project Plans for non-Superfund, RCRA & Brownfield Environmental Monitoring Projects	EPA/240/R-02/009 December 2002	Guidance for Quality Assurance Plans (EPA QA/G-5)

Data Validation Active Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Inorganic Validation SOPs - CLP

SOP #	Description	Date
QA-HWSS-A-010 ICP-AES_Mar22 (pdf) (865.89 KB)	Standard Operating Procedure for ICP-AES Data Validation	March 2022
QA-HWSS-A-009 ICP-MS_Mar22 (pdf) (1.63 MB)	Standard Operating Procedure for ICP-MS Data Validation	March 2022
QA-HWSS-A-011 Mercury (Hg)_Mar22 (pdf) (1.59 MB)	Standard Operating Procedure for Mercury Data Validation	March 2022
QA-HWSS-A-012 Cyanide (CN)_Mar22 (pdf) (1.66 MB)	Standard Operating Procedure for Cyanide Data Validation	March 2022

Organic Validation SOPs - CLP

SOP #	Description	Date
QA-HWSS-A-004 VOA_Mar22 (pdf) (1.24 MB)	Standard Operating Procedure for the Validation of Volatile Data	March 2022
QA-HWSS-A-005 SVOA_Apr22 (1) (pdf) (893.16 KB)	Standard Operating Procedure for the Validation of Semivolatile Data	April 2022
QA-HWSS-A-007 Pesticide_Apr22 (pdf) (850.12 KB)	Standard Operating Procedure for the Validation of Pesticide Data	April 2022
QA-HWSS-006 – PCB Apr22 (pdf) (1.53 MB)	Standard Operating Procedure for the Validation of Aroclor (PCB) Data	April 2022
QA-HWSS-A-013 CDDs-CDFs_Aug22 (pdf) (755.25 KB)	Standard Operating Procedure for the Validation of Chlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins/ Chlorinated Dibenzofurans (CDDs/CDFs) by HRSM	August 2022
QA-HWSS-A-014 CBC_Aug22 (pdf) (784.74 KB)	Standard Operating Procedure for the Validation of Chlorinated Biphenyl Congener (CDC) by HRSM	August 2022

Organic Validation SOPs - Other

SOP #	Description	Date

SOP HW-11 Rev3.0 (1) (pdf) (185.02 KB)	SW-846 Method 8280 for Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans	December 2010
SOP HW-16 Rev2.1 (pdf) (170.9 KB)	SW-846 Method 8330A Nitroaromatics and Nitroamines by HPLC	December 2010
SOP HW-17 Rev3.1 (pdf) (108.03 KB)	SW-846 Method 8151A for Chlorinated Herbicides by GC	December 2010
SOP HW-22 Rev5 (pdf) (925.06 KB)	SW-846 Method 8270D for Semivolatile Organic Compounds by GC/MS	December 2010
SOP HW-25 Rev3 (pdf) (206.68 KB)	EPA Method 1613, Revision B Tetra-through Octa-chorinated Dioxins and Furans by Isotope Dilution by HRGC/HRMS	December 2010
SOP HWSS 24 revision 4 (pdf) (20.37 MB)	SW-846 Methods 8260B & 8260C for VOCs by GC/MS	October 2014
SOP HW-29 Rev. 2	EPA Method 524.2 for Purgeable Organic Compounds in Water by GC/MS	November 2010
SOP HW-31 TO-15 Rev 6 07202023 w/CRFs (pdf) (1.02 MB)	TO-15 Air Analysis for VOCs	September 2016
SOP HW-44 Rev1.1 (pdf) (202.84 KB)	SW-846 Method 8081B for Pesticide Compounds Organochlorine Pesticides by GC	December 2010