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STANDARD PROVISIONS AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS -9 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System impact of the change on the quantity or quality of effluent to be discharged from the POTW. 8. The Discharger shall give advance notice to the Board of any planned changes in the permitted facility or activity that may result in non- compliance with this Order. 9. The Discharger shall submit technical reports as directed by the Executive Officer. 10. Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, representation, or certification in any record or other document submitted or required to be maintained under this Order, including monitoring reports or reports of compliance or noncompliance shall , upon convic- tion, be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 per violation, or by imprisonment for not more than two years per violation, or by both. C. PROVISIONS FOR MONITORING 1 . All analyses shall be performed in accordance with the latest edition of Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for Analysis of Pollutants, promulgated by EPA (40 CFR 136) or other procedures approved by the Board. 2. Chemical , bacteriological , and bioassay analyses shall be conducted at a laboratory certified for such analyses by the State Department of Health Services. In the event a certified laboratory is not available to the Discharger, analyses performed by a noncertified laboratory will be accepted provided a Quality Assurance-Quality Control Program is instituted by the laboratory. A manual containing the steps followed in this program must be kept in the laboratory and shall be available for inspection by Board staff. The Quality Assurance-Quality Control Program must conform to EPA guidelines or to procedures approved by the Board. Unless otherwise specified, all metals shall be reported as Total Metals. Unless otherwise specified, bioassays shall be performed in the following manner: a. Acute bioassays shall be performed in accordance with guidelines approved by the Board and the Department of Fish and Game or in accordance with methods described in EPA's manual for measuring acute toxicity of effluents (EPA/620/4-85/013 and subsequent amendments) .