A member of the Technical Support staff is involved in the development and review of technical specifications for contracted investigation and remedial activities. The QA specialist participates in the chemistry work group. The work group has been formed to promote consistency within the Office of Permitting and to aide in the streamlining of the regulatory process. Currently, the chemistry work group is developing case narrative checklists to help the data user identify and understand any problems or anomalies observed by the laboratory in the receipt, handling, preparation, and analysis of a sample. The Technical Support staff provides support to the Remediation Division on legislative information requests and briefings, legislative bill impacts, Sunset Commission review, and other projects as needed.
Staff also support various program areas within the agency .
Individual technical specialists have been assigned to individual projects requiring in-depth expertise. Preliminary training for staff on the utility of this software will be developed. No analytic solution is available for this problem. An attempt to solidly, correctly, and unambiguously anchor the concept of a detection limit to the statistical theory of hypothesis testing. To be submitted for review to the EPA Region 6, after technical collaboration with interested internal and external scientists.