Method 1631 Proposed Rule Docket Index
Method 1631 Proposed Rule Docket Index
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I. Method 1631 Proposed Rule Docket Index - W-98-15
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
1 EPA Trace Metals Meeting Briefing BRIEF 11/12/93 526 U.S. EPA Office of
Package, November 12-13, 1993, Water, Office of
Boston, Massachusetts Science and
Technology, Engineering
and Analysis Division
(4303) Washington, DC
2 Briefing Materials presented at BRIEF 7/1/94 62 State of Washington, William A. Telliard William R.
PittCon 1994 re: mercury and Department of Ecology, Kammin,
low-level metals sampling and Manchester Environmental
Environmental Laboratory
Laboratory, Port Director
Orchard, WA
3 Letter from William Telliard to Dr. Lian COR 2 Dr. Lian Liang, Cebam William Telliard,
Liang, Cebam Analytical, responding Analytical, Portland, OR USEPA Office of
to 11/16/95 letter providing comments Water,
on Method 1631 Engineering and
Analysis Division
(4303),
Washington, DC
4 Letter from William Telliard to Dr. Carl COR 8/23/94 2 Dr. Carl Watras, Bureau William Telliard,
Watras, State of Wisconsin, re: WI of Research, State of USEPA Office of
DNR research on measurement and Wisconsin Dept. of Water,
effects of mercury and mercury Natural Resources, Engineering and
species on the freshwater aquatic Boulder Junction, WI Analysis Division
environment. (4303),
Washington, DC
5 Letter from Lian Liang, Cebam COR 11/16/95 30 William Telliard, USEPA Dr. Lian Liang,
Analytical,(11/16/95) to William Office of Water, Cebam Analytical,
Telliard providing comments and Engineering and Analysis Portland, OR
attachments on draft Method 1631. Division (4303), Washington, DC
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
6 Inquiry from Dr. P.B. Stockwell COR 9/10/96 1 William Telliard, U.S. EPA, DR. P.B.
regarding use of "Merlin Plus" Atomic Office of Water, Office Stockwell, P.S.
Fluorescence detector as an option in of Science and Analytical Ltd.,
Method 1631 Technology, Engineering Orpington, Kent,
and Analysis Division, United Kingdom
Washington, DC
7 Record of phone conversation with COR 2/12/97 1 William Telliard, U.S. EPA, Colin Davies
Colin Davies, Brooks Rand, Ltd., Office of Water, Office Brooks Rand,
requesting modification of Mehod of Science and Seattle, WA
1631 to allow a single gold trap for Technology, Engineering
analyses rather than the dual trap and Analysis Division,
currently specified in the method Washington, DC
8 Response to Colin Davies, Brooks COR 3/24/97 1 William Telliard, U.S. EPA, Colin Davies
Rand, regarding use of single-stage Office of Water, Office Brooks Rand,
amalgamation procedure for mercury of Science and Seattle, WA
analysis via Method 1631 Technology, Engineering
and Analysis Division,
Washington, DC
9 Inquiry from Brooks Rand, LTD., COR 3/31/97 3 William Telliard, U.S. EPA, Colin Davies
regarding proposed changes to Office of Water, Office Brooks Rand,
Method 1631 of Science and Seattle, WA
Technology, Engineering
and Analysis Division,
Washington, DC
10 Response from William Telliard to COR 8/14/97 1 William Telliard, U.S. EPA, William Telliard,
Colin Davies, Brooks Rand, Ltd., Office of Water, Office U.S. EPA, Office
regarding proposed changes to of Science and of Water, Office
Method 1631. Technology, Engineering of Science and
and Analysis Division, Technology,
Washington, DC Engineering and
Analysis Division,
Washington, DC
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
11 Response from William Telliard to Dr. COR 3/24/98 1 DR. P.B. Stockwell, P.S. William Telliard,
P.B. Stockwell regarding use of the Analytical Ltd., U.S. EPA, Office
"Merlin Plus" atomic fluorescence Orpington, Kent, United of Water, Office
mercury detector Kingdom of Science and
Technology,
Engineering and
Analysis Division,
Washington, DC
12 "NBS Clean Laboratories for Trace DOC 11/1/82 11 Moody, John, R.,
Element Analysis" National Bureau of
Standards.,
Washington, DC in
Analytical Chemistry,
Vol. 54, No.13,
November, 1982
13 Office of Water Quality Technical DOC 1/28/94 65 U.S. Geological Survey David A. Rickert,
Memorandum 94.09 (1/28/94) Water-Resources Chief, Office of
transmitting "A Protocol for the Division Office of Water Water Quality
Collection and Processing of Surface Quality, Reston, VA U.S. Dept. of the
Water Samples for Subsequent Interior, U.S.
Determination of Trace Elements, Geological
Nutrients, and Major Ions in Filtered Survey
Water" Water-Resources
Division Office of
Water Quality,
Reston, VA
15 "Guidance on Establishing Trace DOC 1/1/96 20 Office of Water,
Metal Clean Rooms in Existing Engineering and
Facilities" Analysis Division (4303)
U.S. EPA Washington,
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
16 "Trace Metal Cleanroom" DOC 2/20/96 172 Prepared by Goldberg, William A. Telliard, Chief, Alfred P. Dufour,
Margaret, M., Analytical Analytical Methods Staff, Director, Human
and Chemical Sciences, Engineering and Exposure
Research Triangle Analysis Division, Research
Institute for U.S. EPA Washington, DC Division, National
National Exposure Exposure
Research Lab, Research
Cincinnati, OH Laboratory,
Cincinnati, OH
17 "Study Plan for Validation of EPA DOC 3/1/96 10 US EPA Office of Water,
Method 1631" (Single-lab validation) Office of Science and
Technology Engineering
and Analysis Division,
Washington DC
18 "Guidance on the Documentation and DOC 7/1/96 34 Office of Water,
Evaluation of Trace Metals Data Engineering and
Collected for Clean Water Act Analysis Division (4303)
Compliance Monitoring" U.S. EPA Washington,
DC. EPA 821-B-96-004
19 "Study Plan for Validation of EPA DOC 4/1/98 0 US EPA Office of Water,
Method 1631" (Interlaboratory Office of Science and
validation) [Included in Docket ID#39] Technology Engineering
and Analysis Division,
Washington DC
20 Final Water Quality Guidance for the FR 3/23/95 61 See NTRREV-MET, I-A.3
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
22 Stay of Federal Water Quality Criteria FR 5/4/95 2 60 FR 22228, May 4,
for Metals; Administrative Stay 1995; U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of
Water, Office of
Science and
Technology, 401 M
Street, SW, Washington,
DC
23 Guidelines Establishing Test FR 3/28/97 75 62 FR 14976, March 28,
Procedures for the Analysis of 1997, U.S.
Pollutants and National Primary Environmental Protection
Drinking Water Regulations; Flexibility Agency, Office of
in Existing Test Procedures and Water, Office of
Streamlined Proposal of New Test Science and
Procedures; Proposed Rule Technology, 401 M St.,
SW., Washington, DC
24 Performance-based Measurement FR 10/6/97 3 62 FR 52098; U.S. EPA
System; Notice of Intent Office of Solid Waste
(5305W) 401 M Street,
SW, Washington, DC
25 Mercury, Total recoverable, atomic MTH 3 U.S. Geological Survey
absorption spectrometric, flameless
(1-3462-78)
26 Method 245.2 (Automated Cold Vapor MTH 1/1/74 6 Methods for the
Technique) Chemical Analysis of
Water and Wastes
(MCAWW) EPA
600-4-79-020, Revised
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
27 "Subnanogram Determination of MTH 9/1/79 6 Fitzgerald, William F. and
Mercury by Two-Stage Gold Gary A. Gill, Marine
Amalgamation and Gas Phase Sciences Institute and
Detection Applied to Atmospheric Dept. of Geology and
Analysis" Geophysics, the
University of
Connecticut in Analytical
Chemistry, Vol. 51 No.
11, September 1979.
28 "Determination of Mercury in MTH 2/15/83 11 Bloom, N.S., and E. A.
Seawater at Sub-Nanogram per Liter Crecelius. Marine
Levels" Chemistry, 14 (1983)
pp. 49-59.
29 "Determination of Volatile Mercury MTH 10/23/87 3 Bloom, N.S.; Fitzgerald,
Species at the Picogram Level by W.F. Analytica Chimica
Low-Temperature Gas Acta, 208 (1988)
Chromatography with Cold Vapour 151-161.
Atomic Fluorescence Detection"
30 "An International Intercomparison MTH 8/11/89 6 Cossa, D., and P.
Exercise for Total Mercury in Courau in "App.
Seawater" Organomet. Chem.
1990, 4, 40".
31 Method 245.1 Determination of MTH 4/1/91 12 Lobring, Larry B., and
Mercury in Water by Cold Vapor Billy B. Potter., ed.
Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Environmental
Monitoring Systems
Laboratory Office of
Research and
Development, U.S. EPA,
Cincinnati, OH 45268.
32 "Total Mercury in Aqueous Media" MTH 9/7/94 35 Nicholas Bloom, Frontier
Geosciences, Inc.
Environmental Research
Corporation, Seattle,
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
33 "Method 1631: Mercury in Water by MTH 4/1/95 38 EPA-821-R-95-027,
Oxidation, Purge and Trap, and Cold USEPA Office of Water,
Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Engineering and
Spectrometry" Analysis Division
(4303), Washington, DC
34 Method 1669: Sampling Ambient MTH 1/1/96 43 Office of Water,
Water for Trace Metals at EPA Water Engineering and
Quality Criteria Levels Analysis Division (4303)
U.S. EPA Washington,
DC. EPA 821-R-96-008.
35 "Method 1631: Mercury in Water by MTH 7/1/96 37 EPA-821-R-96-012,
Oxidation, Purge and Trap, and Cold USEPA Office of Water,
Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Engineering and
Spectrometry" Analysis Division
(4303), Washington, DC
36 "Method 1631, Revision A: Mercury in MTH 5/1/98 31 EPA-821-R-98-001,
Water by Oxidation, Purge and Trap, USEPA Office of Water,
and Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Engineering and
Spectrometry" Analysis Division
(4303), Washington, DC
37 Summary of comments on Trace RPT 4/18/96 153 USEPA Office of Water, Region 2 Low-Level Tudor Davies,
Metals Guidance Documents received Office of Science and Metals Sampling and USEPA Office of
at the Low-Level Metals Sampling Technology, Analytical Workshop Water, Office of
and Analytical Workshop conducted Washington, DC Participants Science and
in Jan. 1995 by USEPA Region 2 Technology,
Washington, DC
38 "Results of the EPA Method 1631 RPT 7/1/96 9 US EPA Office of Water,
Validation Study" (single laboratory) Office of Science and
Technology Engineering
and Analysis Division,
Washington DC
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
39 "Results of the EPA Method 1631 RPT 3/1/98 80 US EPA Office of Water,
Interlaboratory Validation Study" Office of Science and
Technology Engineering
and Analysis Division,
Washington DC
40 "Mercury Sampling of Open Ocean STD 1/1/85 11 Gill, G.A., and W.F.
Waters at the Picomolar Level" Fitzgerald. in Deep-Sea
Research, Vol. 32, No.3
pp. 287-297, 1985.
41 "Determination of Volatile Mercury STD 10/23/87 6 Bloom, N.S, and W.F.
Species at the Picogram Level by Fitzgerald. Analytica
Low-Temperature Gas Chimicia Acta, 208
Chromatography With Cold-Vapour (1988) 151-161.
Atomic Fluorescence Detection"
42 "Determination of Total Mercury by STD 6/1/93 4 Liang, Lian and N.S.
Single-stage Gold Amalgamation Cold Bloom. Journal of
Vapour Atomic Spectrometric Analytical Atomic
Detection" Spectrometry, June
1993, Vol. 8.
43 "Influence of Analytical Conditions on STD 1/1/94 8 Bloom, N.S. Watras, C.J.
the Observed 'Reactive Mercury' Huckabee J.W. Ed.,
Concentrations in Natural Mercury Pollution:
Freshwaters" integration and
Synthesis. 1994.
44 "Monitoring Trace Metals at Ambient STD 4/1/94 23 U.S. EPA Office of
Water Quality Criteria Levels: Issues, Water, Office of
Plans, and Schedule" Science and
Technology, Engineering
and Analysis Division
(4303) Washington, DC
ID Subject Type Date Pg. Nmbr Source Recipient Sender
45 "Monitoring Trace Metals at Ambient STD 10/1/94 23 U.S. EPA Office of
Water Quality Criteria Levels: Issues, Water, Office of
Plans, and Schedule" Science and
Technology, Engineering
and Analysis Division
(4303) Washington, DC
46 Results of the International Aqueous STD 1/1/95 7 Bloom, N.S., M. Horvat,
Mercury Speciation Inercomparison C.J Watras. Water, Air,
Exercise and Soil Pollution 80:
1257-1268, 1995.
47 Fact Sheet: Proposal of EPA Method DOC 5/1/98 2 EPA-821-F-98-006,
1631, Revision A: Mercury in Water USEPA Office of Water,
by Oxidation, Purge and Trap, and Engineering and
Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Analysis Division
Spectrometry (4303), Washington, DC
48 Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures FR 5/26/98 18 63 FR, No.100, pp28868-
for the Analysis of Pollutants; 28884.May 26,1998.U.S.
Measurement of Mercury in Water Environmental Protection
Agency. Office of Water, Office
of Science and Technology, 401
M Street, SW, Washington, DC
49 Log of Comments LOG
Log of Comments*
Method 1631-Mercury Proposal (W-98-15)
(in the Docket Files "W-98-15, Meth 1631-Pro, I-49." precedes each of the following log numbers)
Log Date Date of Total
# Rec'd Letter Name Organization Represented Street Address City/State Zip #Pgs #Att
01 06/05/98 05/28/98 Janice Bardi ASTM 100 Barr Harbor Dr West Conshohocken, PA 19428 1 0
02 06/22/98 06/17/98 Rock J. Vitale Environmental Standards, Inc. 1140 Valley Forge Rd, Valley Forge, PA 19482 12 0
PO Box 911
03 06/29/98 06/29/98 Vivian G. Matkivich Maine Waste Water Control Assn. 37 Community Drive Augusta, ME 04330 3 0
Local Government Center
04 07/14/98 07/09/98 David C. Fowler Milwaukee Metropolitan P.O. Box 3049 Milwaukee, WI 53201 2 0
Sewerage District
05 07/16/98 07/23/98 Nancy J. Ekart Eastman Chemical Company P.O. Box 431 Kingsport, TN 37662 5 0
06 07/21/98 07/21/98 William Grant The Izaak Walton League of America1619 Dayton Ave., #202 St. Paul, MN 55104 1 0
07 07/20/98 07/20/98 Albert F. Ettinger Sierra Club-Illinois Chapter 1 N. LaSalle St., Ste. 4242 Chicago, IL 60602 1 0
08 07/21/98 07/20/98 Al Shea State of Wisconsin
Dept. of Natural Resources Box 7921 Madison, WI 53707 2 2
09 07/23/98 07/23/98 Donald G. Mustard Amoco Corporation 580 WestLake Park Blvd. Houston, TX 77079 2 0
10 07/24/98 ---------- Zoe A. Grosser The Perkin-Elmer Corporation 50 Danbury Road MS-219 Wilton, CT 06897 2 2
11 07/26/98 07/24/98 Krishna Parameswaran ASARCO, Inc. 180 Maiden Lane New York, NY 10038 5 0
12 07/26/98 07/24/98 James J. Pletl Hampton Roads Sanitation Dist. P.O. Box 5911 Virginia Beach, VA 23471 10 1
13 07/23/98 07/22/98 Gary E. Glass, et al. University of Minnesota-Duluth,
Archaeometry Laboratory 10 University Drive Duluth, MN 55812 2 5
14 07/24/98 07/23/98 Shirley M. Ruffin South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. 1426 Main Street Columbia, SC 29201 2 0
15 07/27/98 07/27/98 Bruce A. Steiner American Iron & Steel Institute 1101 17th St., N.W. Ste 1300 Washington, D.C. 20036 11 1
16 07/27/98 07/27/98 Steven Koorse, et al. Hunton & Williams O-B-O
Inter-Industry Analytical Group 951 East Byrd St. Richmond, VA 23219 49 20
17 07/24/98 07/24/98 B.L. Bennett Pioneer Chlor Alkali Co., Inc. P.O. Box 23 St. Gabriel, LA 70776 2 0
18 07/24/98 07/24/98 David G. Drain Massachusetts Water Resources Charlestown Navy Yard,
Authority 100 First Ave. Boston, MA 02129 8 1
19 07/24/98 07/23/98 J.M. Searing Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven Science Assoc. P.O. Box 5000 Upton, NY 11973 1 1
20 07/27/98 07/24/98 David L. Buhaly Dept. of Energy, Oak Ridge Op. P.O. Box 2001 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 3 0
Log of Comments*
Method 1631-Mercury Proposal (W-98-15)
(in the Docket Files "W-98-15, Meth 1631-Pro, I-49." precedes each of the following log numbers)
Log Date Date of Total
# Rec'd Letter Name Organization Represented Street Address City/State Zip #Pgs #Att
21 07/27/98 07/27/98 Jeff Louch Nat'l Council of the Paper Industry
for Air & Stream Improvement, Inc.
(ncasi) P.O. Box 458 Corvallis, OR 97339 2 3
22 07/24/98 07/24/98 Erwin J. Odeal Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer Dist.3826 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44115 8 0
23 07/26/98 07/27/98 Jerry Schwartz American Forest & Paper Assoc. 1111 Nineteenth St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 2 0
(AF & PA) Suite 800
24 07/27/98 07/27/98 Stan Dempsey, Jr. Colorado Association of
Commerce & Industry 1776 Lincoln St., Ste. 1200 Denver, CO 80203 3 0
25 07/27/98 07/27/98 Norman E. LeBlanc Association of Metropolitan 1000 Connecticut Ave.,N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 2 1
Sewerage Agencies (amsa) Suite 410
26 07/27/98 07/27/98 Rebecca J. Flood Metropolitan Council 230 East Fifth Street St. Paul, MN 55101 2 0
27 07/27/98 07/27/98 Robert G. Smerko The Chlorine Institute, Inc. 2001 L St., N.W., Suite 506 Washington, D.C. 20036 2 0
28 07/27/98 ---------- Debby Newman ------------------------------ MSD/DIW Cincinnati, OH 45204 3 2
29 07/27/98 07/27/98 John Westendorf Occidental Chemical Corporation
(OxyChem) P.O. Box 809050 Dallas, TX 75380 3 0
30 07/27/98 07/27/98 Michael Murray National Wildlife Federation
Great Lakes Natural Resource Ctr. 506 East Liberty Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 2 0
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