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F <br />0 <br />CAS LOCATIONS <br />CAS features over 125,000 combined square feet of facilities equipped with <br />sophisticated analytical instrumentation. Each laboratory is designed and constructed <br />to provide safeguards against cross -contamination of samples and is arranged by work <br />function to enhance the efficiency of analytical operations. In addition, specialized <br />areas are designed for efficient and safe handling of a variety of sample types. These <br />include a sample receiving and shipping area, sample container preparation area, and <br />a refrigerated storage for samples, chemicals and standards. All CAS locations offer <br />either internal or contract courier/delivery services to deliver sampling kits and to <br />receive samples. Deliveries outside of normal working hours, including weekends, are <br />easily arranged. CAS also serves international clients, having the necessary permits in <br />place to accept foreign soils, water samples and tissue samples of both plants and <br />animals. <br />CAS laboratory <br />locations are described below. A location map, including addresses <br />and phone numbers, is provided at the end of this section. <br />CAS/Kelso, Was is the largest laboratory in the network with over 25,000 <br />square feet of laboratory and support staff space. The size of the.laboratory, combined <br />with its equipment and highly trained personnel allow this facility to provide enhanced <br />services. For example, complex projects requiring analysis of large numbers of <br />samples, those of difficult matrices, or those requiring low levels of detection. <br />CAS/Kelso specializes in non -routine; complex analyses requiring a high degree of <br />technical expertise. These special capabilities have allowed CAS/Kelso to take part in <br />a number of method development studies for the U.S. EPA and various state and <br />industrial agencies. They have also held a number of direct EPA contracts under the <br />U.S. EPA Contract Laboratory Program (CLP). Services are provided to a number of <br />other federal government entities including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), <br />Navy and Air Force. - <br />Included among the specialized procedures performed at the Kelso laboratory, are <br />techniques that allow the ultra -trace determination of various constituents in difficult <br />sample matrices. Investments have been made to develop systems for the preparation <br />and analysis of sediment and tissue (i.e., plant and animal), as well as routine aqueous <br />and soil samples. Much of the analytical chemistry performed at the Kelso laboratory is <br />in direct support of risk-based studies where routine environmental procedures are <br />often insufficient to meet the project objectives. <br />Page 3 of 29 <br />0 <br />