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Certification of Laboratories for Drinking Water

Procedure for Safe Drinking Water Act Program Detection Limits for Radionuclides

Derivation of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) program’s radionuclide Detection Limit and steps for executing the experimental Detection Limit study.

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Procedure for SDWA Program Detection Limits for Radionuclides (PDF)(13 pp, 307 K, April 2017, 815-B-17-003)