US EPA docket OW-2003-0070 - Office of Water radiochemical methodsproposed notice - June 7 deadline

[Donivan Porterfield <dporterfield@nnsa.net>]

The deadline to submit comments to US EPA docket OW-2003-0070 is June 7 

(Monday).



40 CFR Part 122, et al.

Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants 

Under the Clean Water Act;

National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; and

National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations;

Analysis and Sampling Procedures;

Proposed Rule



In the end my own review of this notice and its supporting docket materials 

elicited 5 pages of comments which have been submitted to the EPA EDOCKET 

system (http://cascade.epa.gov/RightSite/dk_public_home.htm).



A portion of my input is opposition to a new method, "Determination of 

Radium-226 and Radium-228 in Drinking Water by Gamma-ray Spectrometry Using 

HPGe or Ge(Li) Detectors", and many other methods that don't provide for 

reporting in metric units, i.e. Bq.  As well I'm critical of the EPA Office 

of Water in adhering to the spirit of the National Technology Transfer Act 

in providing feedback to voluntary consensus standards organizations on 

what methods were not included in the notice and their justification.



To facilitate others making input on this EPA Federal Register notice I'm 

making available specific links (Adobe PDF) to the specific items in the 

docket relevant to the notice itself and proposed radiochemical 

methods.  Information on how to submit comments (web page, e-mail, US mail, 

etc.) are in the first item below.





OW-2003-0070-0001

Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants 

Under the Clean Water Act; National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; and 

National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations; Analysis and Sampling Procedures

http://www.nnsa.net/EPA-OW-2003-0070/EPA-OW-2003-0070-0001.pdf (0.5 Mb)





OW-2003-0070-0002

Factsheet: Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of 

Pollutants Under the Clean Water Act; National Primary Drinking Water 

Regulations; and National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations

http://www.nnsa.net/EPA-OW-2003-0070/EPA-OW-2003-0070-0002.pdf





OW-2003-0070-0087

Method for the Determination of Radium-228 and Radium-226 in Drinking Water 

by Gamma-ray Spectrometry Using HPGE or Ge(Li) Detectors

http://www.nnsa.net/EPA-OW-2003-0070/EPA-OW-2003-0070-0087.pdf (1.8 Mb)





OW-2003-0070-0088

Radiochemistry Alternative Test Procedure (ATP) Validation Study Report: 

The Results of a Validation Study for a Method to Determine the Radium 226 

and Radium 228 Content of Drinking Water with Gamma Spectrometry

http://www.nnsa.net/EPA-OW-2003-0070/EPA-OW-2003-0070-0088.pdf (1.0 Mb)





Also my comments that were submitted to the docket.

http://www.nnsa.net/EPA-OW-2003-0070/EPA-OW-2003-0070-0245.pdf







As well a link to the first page of this specific docket (OW-2003-0070):

http://cascade.epa.gov/RightSite/dk_public_collection_detail.htm?ObjectType=dk_docket_collection&cid=OW-2003-0070&ShowList=items&Action=view









Mr. Donivan Porterfield

PO  Box 1417

Los Alamos, NM  87544

dporterfield@nnsa.net



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