- Mission [1]
- The ELAB addresses EPA's fourth priority/goal - "Cleaning up our Communities". In Fiscal Year 2011 the ELAB continued efforts
that had begun at the end of FY 10 given their prior decision to really invest more of their efforts on major themes and not
get overwhelmed with too many issues at once. Topics included, among others: proficiency testing requirements for the drinking
water certification program versus requirements from The NELAC Institute (i.e., TNI is a national accreditation program);
Methods Update Rule from the Office of Water; Sufficiently Sensitive Methods; Improvements to EPA Regulations; and Recreational
Water Criteria. Work groups meet to more efficiently gather information for the full Board to discuss in order to be more
effective in offering opinions to the Agency based on more detailed information. Comments and recommendations were solicited
at each of the ELAB public meetings enabling future consensus advice to be given to the EPA Science Advisor for the Office
of the Science Advisor. ELAB accomplishes the purpose of providing advice and counsel to the EPA Administrator by making critical
recommendations on enhancing EPA's measurement programs and facilitating the development, establishment, and operation of
a national environmental laboratory accreditation program.
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