AGENDA

 Federal Advisory Committee on Detection and Quantitation Approaches and
Uses in Clean Water Act Programs

Teleconference Meeting #8

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

1 – 4 PM EDT

The purposes of this teleconference meeting are to:

Hear the Policy Work Group’s recommendation on the removal of a
National Detection Limit (DLnat) from the Uses Document and for the
Committee to vote on this recommendation;

Review and discuss the Policy Work Group’s revisions of the Uses
Document;

Complete the vote on one remaining Decision from Meeting #7: 
Measurement Quality Objectives (MQOs) for Future Promulgation of
Methods; and

Hear status reports from Work Groups and provide direction to them as
appropriate.  

Topics	

Materials

1:00 PM	Welcome, Meeting Purpose, Agenda Review, and Introductions



	1:10 PM	Conference Call Protocols and Ground Rules on Voting	Document:
02. Protocols, Groundrules, & Voting

1:15 PM	Discussion of Removing DLnat from the Uses Document

Policy Work Group Recommendation and Rationale

Discussion

	Document: 03. Uses Doc with DLnat Deleted

1:30 PM	Discussion of Revised Uses Document 

Policy Work Group Presentation of and Rationale for Revisions 

Questions, Responses, and Discussion 

	Document: 04. Revised Uses 7-18-07

2:30 PM	Committee Decisions

Decision on removal of DLnat from the Uses Document

Committee Direction to Policy Work Group on Uses Document



	3:00 PM	Uses Recommendation on MQOs for Future Promulgation of Methods

The FACDQ recommends, for future method promulgation, that target MQOs
for Data Quality Indicators (DQIs), such as Precision, Accuracy, Method
Specified Qualitative Identification, and False Negative error rates
derived from the Data Quality Objectives (DQO) process, be established
for Quantitation Limits in Part 136.  If the target MQOs cannot be met,
EPA may promulgate with rationale.  

Straw Vote:  9 Agree, 9 Not Opposed, 0 Disagree (6/8/07 AM)

Vote on MQOs for Future Promulgation of Methods

	Document: 05. Final Decisions From FACDQ #7

3:15 PM	Status Reports

Policy 

Verification

Matrix Effects

Implementation

Final Report 

Technical

Procedures Strike Team 

	

Document: 06. DQFAC Single Lab Procedure Version 2.1

Document: 07. DQFAC Single Lab Procedure Version 2.1 Flow Charts

3:45 PM	Public Comment



	3:50 PM	Wrap-up, Decision on August 28, 2007 FACDQ Teleconference
Meeting and Agenda Items (if appropriate), and Next Steps for the
September 19 – 21 FACDQ Meeting in Arlington, VA



	4:00 PM	Adjourn



	

			7/18/2007

Draft for Discussion

Document # FACDQ8-01

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Federal Advisory Committee on Detection and Quantitation Approaches and 
	             Uses In Clean Water Act Programs

July 25, 2007 Agenda		

