Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 23.10.2006

Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB) Meeting Dates, and Agenda

The Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB), as previously announced, will have teleconference meetings on October 18, 2006 at 1 p.m. e.t.; November 15, 2006 at 1 p.m. e.t.; December 20, 2006 at 1 p.m. e.t.; January 17, 2007 at 1 p.m. e.t.; and February 21, 2007 at 1p.m. e.t. to discuss the ideas and views presented at the previous ELAB meetings, as well as new business. Items to be discussed by ELAB over these coming meetings include: (1) Expanding the number of laboratories seeking National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC) accreditation; (2) homeland security issues affecting the laboratory community; (3) ELAB support to the Agency's Forum on Environmental Measurements (FEM); (4) implementing the performance approach; (5) increasing State participation in NELAC; and (6) follow-up on some of ELAB's past recommendations and issues. In addition to these teleconferences, ELAB will be hosting their next face-to-face meeting in late January 2007 at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver, Colorado. Further details of that meeting will be forthcoming. Written comments on laboratory accreditation issues and/or environmental moni