The purpose of these regulations is to provide a procedure by which the Department of the Environment may certify that water quality laboratories are capable of performing in an acceptable manner microbiological, chemical, physical, and radiochemical analyses on water samples from public water supplies. Since owners of public water supplies are required through various State and federal programs to monitor the quality of drinking water in their systems, it is necessary to have available water quality laboratories that produce data recognized as valid by the enforcement agencies. These regulations establish standards of operation for these water quality laboratories.

Authority: Environment Article, Title 9, Subtitle 10, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: November 21, 1983 (10:23 Md. R. 2063)

Chapter recodified from COMAR 10.10.04 to COMAR 26.08.05

Regulations .01—.16 repealed and new Regulations .01—.18 adopted effective July 21, 2014 (41:14 Md. R. 800)