Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board's (ELAB) Products and Reports include the information, advice and recommendations made to the Agency. Products between 2012-2018 are provided below. Earlier decisions can be found by searching the EPA Archives.
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- ELAB October 17, 2018 Letter to EPA Regarding Drinking Water Method Approvals (PDF)(2 pp, 108 K)
- ELAB September 19, 2018 Letter to EPA Regarding User-Generated Mass Spectral Libraries and Tuning Criteria (PDF)(2 pp, 130 K)
- ELAB May 16, 2018 Letter and Attachment to EPA Regarding Preservation of Wastewater Samples Tested for Acrolein and Acrylonitrile (PDF)(5 pp, 762 K)
- ELAB May 16, 2018 Reply and Attachment to EPA Regarding Minimum Criteria for Selected Ion Monitoring (SIM) Methods (PDF)(4 pp, 652 K)
- ELAB April 18, 2018 Letter to EPA Regarding ELAB Letter Regarding Cyanide Testing in Drinking Water (PDF)(1 pg, 207 K)
- ELAB March 8, 2018 Response to EPA Regarding Recommendations for Drinking Water Cyanide Testing (PDF)(2 pp, 109 K)
- ELAB October 26, 2017 Letter to EPA with ELAB Suggestions for the Drinking Water Certification Officer’s Training Course (PDF)(2 pp, 132 K)
- ELAB May 17, 2017 Letter to EPA in Regard to Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) (PDF)(1 pg, 233 K)
- Cyanide Technical Report March 2017 (PDF)(75 pp, 3 MB)
- Final ELAB June 26, 2017 Letter to EPA on Cyanide (PDF)(4 pp, 232 K)
- ELAB April 18, 2017 Letter to EPA Regarding Method 6010d (PDF)(2 pp, 124 K)
- ELAB April 17, 2017 Method Harmonization Response Letter to EPA (PDF)(1 pg, 87 K)
- ELAB April 17, 2017 Letter to EPA Regarding SIM (PDF)(6 pp, 181 K)
- ELAB April 28, 2016 Letter to EPA Regarding Laboratory Involvement in the Quality Assurance Project Plan Development Process (PDF)(3 pp, 414 K)
- ELAB March 17, 2016 Letter to EPA regarding Method Harmonization Update and Method Comparisons (PDF)(20 pp, 850 K)
- ELAB December 16, 2015 Letter and Attachments to EPA Regarding Reporting of Compliance Data With Qualifiers That Do Not Impact Data Usability (PDF)(22 pp, 440 K)
- 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 July 23, 2013 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 Measurements in regard to the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (PDF)(7 pp, 456 K, 11/02/2012)