Environmental Data Quality Assurance Regulation (B.C. Reg. 301/90).

The present Regulation enacts the Environmental Management Act. Section 2 of the above-mentioned Regulation establishes that a person required to submit environmental monitoring data as a requirement of an order, permit, licence, approval or certificate under an enactment administered by the Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection shall, on the request of a director: a) cause any samples collected to be analyzed for designated characteristics at a registered laboratory; b) provide, within 45 days of sample collection, analytical results to the director; c) provide analytical results to the director for analysis of standard samples of gases introduced to an emission analyzer, or ambient air analyzer operated; d) follow sampling, analytical, quality control and reporting procedures as specified or authorized by the director, and e) describe to the director fully in a form specified by the director the methods used to collect and analyze the samples. The text consists of 6 sections as follows: Interpretation (1); Sampling, analytical, quality control and reporting procedures (2); Repealed (3); Cost recovery (4); Inter-laboratory comparison program (5); Repealed (6).