Section 149.13. Fields of accreditation (certification and registration).

 

(1)   General. The department shall certify and register laboratories by specific fields of accreditation. Accreditation is offered as either certification or registration. Fields of certification and registration consist of 3 tiers describing the analytical capability of laboratories. Specific fields of certification and registration shall be structured as in Table 1 of this subchapter.

(2)   Tier 1–matrix . The first tier of certification or registration designates the matrices a laboratory may analyze and shall consist of aqueous, solids, and drinking water matrices.

(3)   Tier 2–technology or method. The second tier of certification or registration shall be analytical technology for aqueous and solid matrices or method for drinking water matrix.

(a) Laboratories analyzing aqueous and solid samples may be certified or registered for the analytical technologies contained in table 2 of this subchapter.

1. The department shall include any associated sample preparation techniques, such as digestions, distillations, extractions, cleanups, concentration, and dilution as part of the certification or registration for a given field of accreditation.

2. Laboratories may employ multiple approved methods of analysis for a given analytical technology under the same field of accreditation.

Table 1
Fields of Accreditation Tiers - See PDF for table

Table 2
Analytical Technologies for Aqueous and Solid Matrices - See PDF for table

1. Waste characterization extractions offered for solid matrices (Tier 1) only and include extraction procedure toxicity, synthetic precipitation leaching procedure, toxicity characteristic leaching procedure and shake extraction of solid waste with water. Laboratories shall also maintain certification or registration for any analyte to be determined in the resulting extract from any waste characteristic extraction.

2. Waste characterization assays are offered for solid matrices (Tier 1) only and shall include tests required to determine if a material meets the hazardous definition in s. NR 661.03 and those used to fulfill the requirements of waste analysis plans under ch. NR 664 or 665 .

3. Certification or registration for this technology is only available for aqueous matrices (Tier 1).

4. The department may offer certification or registration in other analytical technologies if they are approved by EPA or approved by the department as an emerging technology.

(b) Laboratories analyzing drinking water samples shall be certified to perform methods promulgated or approved by the EPA.

1. Methods available for the certification of laboratories analyzing drinking water are contained in ch. NR 809 and the "Manual for the Certification of Laboratories Analyzing Drinking Water", EPA815-R-05-004, fifth edition, EPA, Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water, January 2005.

2. The department may certify laboratories to analyze drinking water using methods not contained in the sources cited in subd. 1. if EPA has promulgated the methods or has granted approval for their use.

(4)   Tier 3 – analyte or analyte group . The third tier of the certification fields shall be analyte or analyte group, when the department determines that offering analyte groups improves the efficiency of administering certifications.

(a) The analytes and analyte groups available for certification and registration are contained in appendices I and II.

(b) The department may offer certification or registration for additional analytes or analyte groups that are not contained in appendices I and II upon request by a covered program or when EPA requires their analysis, after consultation with the certification standards review council.

(c) Analyte groups are organized into classes. Laboratories analyzing aqueous and solid matrices may be certified or registered for analyte groups belonging to the analytical classes contained in Table 3 of this subchapter.

Table 3
Classes of analytes groups for aqueous and solid matrices - See PDF for table

(d) Analyte groups are organized into classes. Laboratories analyzing drinking water may be certified for analytes or analyte groups belonging to the analytical classes contained in Table 4 of this subchapter.

Table 4
Classes of Analyte Groups for the Drinking Water Matrix - See PDF for table

History: CR 06-005 : cr. Register April 2008 No. 628 , eff. 9-1-08; correction to (4) (d) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 1. , Stats., Register April 2008 No. 628 .