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ATTACHMENT G QUALITY ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR DEP AGREEMENTS 1 . All sampling and analyses performed under this Contract must conform to the requirements set forth in Chapter 62- 160, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.) and the document "Requirements for Field and Analytical Work performed for the Department of Environmental Protection under Contract" (DEP-QA-002/02), February 2002 . 2 , LABORATORIES A. The Contractor shall ensure that all laboratory testing activities are performed by a laboratory certified by the Department of Health Environmental Laboratory Certification Program (DoH ELCP) for the test methods and analytes to be measured. B . If the laboratory is not certified for some or all of the proposed test measurements, the laboratory shall apply for certification within one month of Contract execution, and shall be fully certified within six months . Regardless of when the laboratory receives certification, the laboratory must implement all applicable standards of the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC) upon Contract execution. C. Prior to providing analytical services, the laboratory must provide information for all test measurements that at least one set of performance test samples that meet the DoH ELCP certification requirements have been passed successfully within the last 6 months . D . Laboratories shall maintain certification for all test methods during the life of the Contract. Should certification for an analyte or test method be lost, all affected tests shall be immediately contracted to a laboratory with current DoH ELCP certification. The laboratory shall notify the project manager in writing of any changes before such changes are made . E . A copy of the DoH Certificate and the list of test methods for each laboratory shall be provided to the project manager with submission of the QAPP or upon receiving DoH certification (see 2 .13 above). F. All non-standard laboratory procedures (i.e. those that do not appear on the Department' s list of recognized methods) whether DoH ELCP certification is required or not, shall be submitted for review and approval in accordance with DEP-QA-001 /01 , "New and Alternative Analytical Laboratory Methods", January 1 , 2002 . The method must be approved by the Department before use . G. The Contractor shall ensure that the essential quality control measures, laboratory report content and documentation are consistent with Chapter 5 of the NELAC standards and DEP-QA-002/02 . In addition: 1 . The final concentration of any spike fortification must be at the laboratory ' s stated PQL or at the action level if it exceeds the PQL. If the measured sample background exceeds the specified spike level by more than a factor of two, then the spike level must be 2-5 times the measured background level in the sample that is selected for spiking. If a spiked sample is spiked at an incorrect level, then the entire batch of samples must be re-prepared, a new aliquot of the same sample must be re-spiked at the correct level for this batch, and the batch reanalyzed. The sample to be spiked should be randomly selected, and it must be reported which sample was spiked. All spike fortification must take place prior to any necessary preparation. The results must meet the established laboratory acceptance criteria for the specific matrix. If none have been developed, the laboratory shall use the criteria for LCS until such limits are established. 2 . No analyses may be performed using expired reagents, calibration solutions or check solutions . 3 . The concentration of each calibration standard used to generate a nonlinear calibration curve must be calculated based on the curve. All calculated calibration concentrations must be within 85 % - 115% of the known concentration for that standard. 4. If a relative response factor is used to determine the sample concentration, the continuing calibration checks must meet the method stated acceptance criteria. 5 . Analytical sensitivity must be evaluated using a check standard prepared at the practical quantitation limit for each analytical run as described above for PQLs . DEP Agreement No. G0061 , Attachment G, Page 1 of 4