[Federal Register: March 26, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 58)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Annual Conference on Analysis of Pollutants in the Environment

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of conference.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Science and Technology and the Water Environment 
Federation will co-sponsor the ``21st Annual Conference on Analysis of 
Pollutants in the Environment'' to discuss issues relating to 
environmental measurement. The conference is open to the public.

DATES: On May 6, 1998, two workshops will be held prior to the start of 
the conference. The workshop topics and program times are:
    EPA's Plans for Use of Screening Procedures for Compliance 
Monitoring, May 6, 1998, 8 a.m. to 12 Noon.
    Method Validation and Documentation Requirements under the U.S. EPA 
Office of Water's Streamlining Initiative, May 6, 1998, 1 p.m. to 5 
p.m.
    The annual conference will be held on May 7-8, 1998. On May 7, 
1998, the conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. and adjourn at 4:45 p.m. 
On May 8, 1998, the conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. and adjourn at 
4:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The conference will be held at the Norfolk Waterside 
Marriott Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The conference and workshop are being 
arranged by the Water Environment Federation. For information on 
registration, hotel rates, transportation, and reservations call the 
Water Environment Federation at (800) 444-2933. If you have technical 
questions regarding the conference program, please contact Marion 
Thompson by phone at (202) 260-7117 or by facsimile at (202) 260-7185.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA's 21st Annual Conference on Analysis of 
Pollutants in the Environment is designed to bring together 
representatives of regulated industries, commercial environmental 
laboratories, State and Federal regulators, and environmental 
consultants and contractors to discuss issues relating to environmental 
measurement with a particular focus on analytical methods.
    The conference agenda follows:

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Thursday, May 7, 1998

Welcome and Status of Office Water Activities

8:30 am--Welcome from the Water Environment Federation: Current 
Projects and Future Goals of the Laboratory Practices Committee--Laura 
Conrad, Occoquan Sewage Authority
8:45 am--Office of Water Activities--James Hanlon, U.S. EPA Office of 
Science & Technology
9:00 am--Analytical Activities Within EPA's Office of Science and 
Technology--William Telliard, U.S. EPA Office of Science & Technology

Cyanide

9:30 am--Analysis and Characterization of Cyanide in Contaminated 
Groundwater--Sharon Drop, Alcoa Technical Center
10:00 am--Break

Organics

10:15 am--Determination of 209 PCB Congeners in 14 Arochlors by HRGC/
HRMS Using EPA Method 1668--Brian Fowler, Axys Analytical Services, 
Ltd.
10:45 am--Approaches to Chemical Fingerprinting of Fossil Fuel Residues 
in Tissues--Paul Boehm, Arthur D. Little, Inc.
11:15 am--Analysis of Humic and Fulvic Acids using Flow Field-Flow 
Fractionation as an Analytical Technique--Kathryn Healy, Iowa State 
University
11:45 am--Lunch

Sampling

1:00 pm--In-situ Sample Preparation for Radiochemical Analyses of 
Surface Water--Donna Beals, Westinghouse Savannah River Company

Microbiologicals

1:30 pm--Methods for Determination of Toxic and Non-toxic Pfisteria and 
Pfisteria-like Dinoflagellates--JoAnn Burkholder, North Carolina State 
University
2:00 pm--The Usefulness of the Microtox Test for Predicting Aquatic 
Community Protection--Donald Mount, AScI Corporation
2:30 pm--Validation of USEPA Method 1622: Cryptosporidium in Water by 
Filtration/IMS/FA--Jennifer Clancy, CEC
3:00 pm--Break
3:15 pm--Technical Transfer of a Protozoan Detection Method from 
Research to Standard Operating Procedure--Carrie Hancock, CH Diagnostic
3:45 pm--Methods for Detection of Viable and Infectious Cryptosporidium 
parvum in Water--Ricardo DeLeon, Metropolitan Water District of 
Southern California
4:15 pm--Food for Thought: New Methods for Salmonella Detection in 
Biosolids--Rick Danielson, BioVir Laboratories

Friday, May 8, 1998

Data Reporting

8:30 am--Roll-out of DEEMS (Department of Energy Environmental 
Management Electronic Data Deliverable Master Specification)--Joan 
Fisk, U. S. EPA OERR and Joseph Solsky, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Detection/Quantitation

9:15 am--Routine QC Standards Used as a Guide to Conducting Detection 
Limit Studies--Larry Penfold, Quanterra, Inc.

Oil and Grease and TPH

9:45 am--Analytical Issues with the Determination of Oxigenates in the 
Environment--Ileana Rhodes, Shell Development Company
10:15 am--Break
10:30 am--Methods for the Analysis of Oil and Grease and Sources of 
Variability in their Application to Produced Waters from Oil and Gas 
Production Operations--Joe Raia, J.C. Raia Consulting Services
11:00 am--Alternate Methods for Infrared Analysis of Total Oil and 
Grease (TOG) in Effluent Water and Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) 
in Soils--Paul Wilks, Wilks Enterprise, Inc.
11:30 am--Lunch

Great Lakes Initiative

12:45 pm--Toxics Monitoring for Modeling in Lake Michigan: A QA 
Manager's Perspective--Louis Blume, U.S. EPA Region V, Great Lakes 
National Program Office

Metals

1:15 pm--Evaluation of Techniques for Collection of Effluent Samples 
for Trace Metals Analysis--Kim Shaw, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer 
District
1:45 pm--Corrosion in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: A Major 
Source of Copper and Lead to Wastewaters and Effluents--Russell Isaac, 
Massachusetts DEP
2:15 pm--Uptake and Assimilation of Mercury and Methylmercury by 
Phytoplankton--Carl Watras, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
2:45 pm--Break
3:00 pm--Analytical Issues Associated with Application of EPA's 
Proposed 1600 Series Trace Metals Methods to Pulp and Paper Effluents--
Jeff Louch, NCASI
3:30 pm--Copper-Complexing Organic Ligands in the Chesapeake Bay Water 
Column and Sediment Porewaters: Effects on Copper Speciation and 
Implications of Their Sediment/Water Exchange--John Donat, Old Dominion 
University
4:00 pm--Lower MDLs and Better Accuracy for ``Total Recoverable 
Metals'' in Water Through the Use of Dilute HF/HNO<INF>3</INF> 
Digestion at 85 deg. C in Sealed Teflon Bottles--Nicolas Bloom, 
Frontier Geosciences
4:30 pm--Closing Remarks--James Hanlon, Deputy Director, Office of 
Science and Technology

    Dated: March 19, 1998.
Tudor T. Davies,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
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