Open AccessNear Facility Environmental Monitoring Quality Assurance Project Plan
Author(s) -
S.M. McKinney
Publication year - 2000
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/803700
Subject(s) - hanford site , quality assurance , plan (archaeology) , environmental quality , environmental monitoring , engineering , sampling (signal processing) , environmental impact assessment , radioactive waste , environmental restoration , qa/qc , waste management , environmental science , operations management , environmental engineering , computer science , biology , political science , programming language , electrical engineering , filter (signal processing) , software , software system , law , history , ecology , external quality assessment , archaeology , software construction
This Quality Assurance Project Plan addresses the quality assurance requirements for the activities associated with the preoperational and near-facility environmental monitoring directed by Waste Management Technical Services and supersedes HNF-EP-0538-4. This plan applies to all sampling and monitoring activities performed by Waste Management Technical Services in implementing near-facility environmental monitoring at the Hanford Site. This Quality Assurance Project Plan is required by U.S. Department of Energy Order 5400.1 (DOE 1990) as a part of the Environmental Monitoring Plan (DOE-RL 1997) and is used to define: Environmental measurement and sampling locations used to monitor environmental contaminants near active and inactive facilities and waste storage and disposal sites; Procedures and equipment needed to perform the measurement and sampling; Frequency and analyses required for each measurement and sampling location; Minimum detection level and accuracy; Quality assurance components; and Investigation levels. Near-facility environmental monitoring for the Hanford Site is conducted in accordance with the requirements of U.S. Department of Energy Orders 5400.1 (DOE 1990), 5400.5 (DOE 1993), 5484.1 (DOE 1990), and 435.1 (DOE 1999), and DOE/EH-O173T (DOE 1991). It is Waste Management Technical Services' objective to manage and conduct near-facility environmental monitoring activities at the Hanford Site in a cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner that is in compliance with the letter and spirit of these regulations and other environmental regulations, statutes, and standards