§ 8-2-203 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

8-2-203. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Acceptable results" means results within limits determined on the basis of statistical procedures as prescribed by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality;

(2) "Certificate" means a document issued by the department showing the parameters for which a laboratory has received certification;

(3) "Commission" means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission or its successor;

(4) "Consulting laboratory" means a laboratory, as defined in subdivision (7) of this section, that performs analyses for any person other than itself, and does not include laboratories that are wholly owned by the person for whom the analyses are performed;

(5) "Department" means the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality;

(6) "Evaluation" means a review of the quality control and quality assurance procedures, recordkeeping, reporting procedures, methodology, and analytical techniques of a laboratory for measuring or establishing specific parameters;

(7) "Laboratory" means any facility that performs analyses to determine the chemical, physical, or biological properties of air, water, solid waste, hazardous waste, wastewater, or soil or subsoil materials or that performs any other analyses related to environmental quality evaluations required by the department or which will be submitted to the department, except that evaluations to determine the engineering properties related to soil mechanics shall not be included herein;

(8) "Parameter" means the characteristics of a laboratory sample determined by an analytic laboratory testing procedure;

(9) "Performance audit sample" means a sample intended for laboratory analysis in which the concentrations of the constituents are known only to the department and that is used in a test procedure to determine a laboratory's analytic, quality control, and quality assurance precision and accuracy;

(10) "Person" means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, joint-stock company or trust, venture, municipal, state, or federal government or agency, or any other legal entity, however organized; and

(11) "Program" means the State Environmental Laboratory Certification Program.