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r Clean Water Act: CAS performs regular monthly National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) monitoring for a number of municipalities, counties, and government entities, as well as for industrial and mining clients. Due to intense regulatory scrutiny, these projects have required close attention to monthly trends so clients are alerted to any change that might affect them. The deadlines imposed by the permit agency require timely delivery of data to avoid fines and penalties. Most CAS laboratories perform drinking water tests, primarily for the local areas and states surrounding each laboratory location. We also provide the items necessary to take samples. CAS all can provide the items required for storm water analysis in a convenient shipping container, which includes the bottles, ice packs, sampling instructions, chain of custody and shipping documentation. Government Proiects• CAS has worked for many Department of Defense (DOD) branches as well as other federal and state government agencies both directly and indirectly. Laboratory procedures have covered the full analytical spectrum, including trace metals, toxicity, trace organics and classical wet chemistry techniques. Our services have included the development of specialized techniques for petroleum products, ultra -trace determinations of metals using ICP -MS instrumentation, ultra -trace determinations of hazardous organics in sediments using GC/MS Selected Ion Monitoring (SIM), ordnance testing. We have assisted with development, specification and implementation of electronic data delivery with adherence to reporting requirements of the ACOE, Navy (NFESC), Air Force (AFCEE) and their contractors. -CAS became a participant in the U.S. EPA's Contract Laboratory Program's (CLP), Regular Analytical Services (RAS) and the Special Analytical Services (SAS) in 1988. -- One contract involved analyzing water, soil, and -waste samples from a wide variety of U.S. EPA Superfund sites throughout the United States for CLP metals and cyanide. The services under the SAS contracts have included the following: method development, round-robin method validation, special low-level techniques, difficult matrix analyses, rapid turnaround response, and other areas not routinely included in the RAS CLP. The RAS and SAS contracts require meticulous adherence to quality assurance/quality control as well as strict data documentation and reporting procedures, which have been adapted for usage for all analytical work performed at LI Page 24 of 29 C L