North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 02 - Environmental Management › Subchapter H - PROCEDURES FOR PERMITS: APPROVALS › Section .1100 - BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY CERTIFICATION › Section 02H .1103 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The following terms as used in this Section shall have the
					 assigned meaning:
(1) "Approved
				  Procedure" means an analytical procedure developed by the State Laboratory
				  based upon 40 CFR
				  136.3 and subject to G.S. 143, Article 21,
				  Part 1. A link to the approved procedures can be found at
				  https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-resources-data/water-sciences-home-page/aquatic-toxicology-branch/downloads.
(2) "Aquatic population survey and analysis"
				  means field sampling, laboratory identification, analysis, and metric
				  derivation for determining biological integrity, as defined in
				  15A NCAC
				  02B .0202 for fish, aquatic
				  macroinvertebrates, phytoplankton, and aquatic macrophytes using methods
				  developed in accordance with
				  15A NCAC
				  02B .0103(b).
(3) "Certification" means a declaration by
				  the Division that personnel, equipment, records, quality control procedures,
				  and methodology cited by the applicant complies with the rules in this
				  Section.
(4) "Commercial
				  Laboratory" means any laboratory, including its employees and agents, that
				  analyzes, for others, wastewater samples for toxicity measurements or for their
				  impacts on the receiving waters.
(5) "Decertification" means the loss of
				  certification.
(6) "Director" means
				  the Director of the North Carolina Division of Water Resources.
(7) "Division" means the North Carolina
				  Division of Water Resources.
(8)
				  "Falsified data or information" means data or information that, whether by
				  intent, or disregard for accuracy, has been altered, fabricated, recorded
				  falsely or mischaracterized by omission or substitution.
(9) "Industrial Laboratory" means a
				  laboratory, including its employees and agents, operated by an industrial
				  facility to analyze samples from its wastewater treatment plants for toxicity
				  measurements or impacts to receiving waters or to conduct aquatic population
				  surveys and analysis.
(10)
				  "Proficiency Testing sample" means a performance evaluation sample provided by
				  the State Laboratory or a State Laboratory-approved vendor as defined in
				  15A NCAC
				  02H .0803(38), located at
https://nelac-institute.org/content/NEPTP/ptproviders.php
to a commercial, industrial, or public laboratory as an unknown toxicant for
				  measurement of toxicity, as an unknown analyte for measurement by laboratory
				  equipment or wet chemistry methods, or as an unknown set of preserved organisms
				  for identification to specified levels of taxonomic classification.
(11) "Public Laboratory" means a laboratory,
				  including its employees and agents, operated by a municipality, county, water
				  and sewer authority, sanitary district, metropolitan sewerage district, or
				  State or federal installation to analyze samples from its wastewater treatment
				  plant(s) for toxicity measurements or resultant impacts to receiving
				  waters.
(12) "Split samples" for
				  surface water effluent discharge, surface water, or phytoplankton means two or
				  more representative portions taken from a single sampling device. For aquatic
				  macrophytes or macroinvertebrates, split sample means a single sample that is
				  analyzed by both the State Laboratory and by the commercial, public, or
				  industrial laboratory.
(13) "State
				  laboratory" means the Water Sciences Section of the North Carolina Division of
				  Water Resources.
(14) "Toxicant"
				  means any specific chemical, compound, or mixture of chemicals or compounds
				  regulated by an NPDES permit or defined as a toxic substance in
				  15A NCAC
				  02B .0202.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 143-215.3(a)(1);
					 143-215.3(a)(10);
					 143-215.66;
Eff.
					 October 1, 1988;
Amended Eff. April 1, 1993;
Readopted
					 Eff. July 1, 2019.