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Air and Emission Test Methods Links

When we first created this page there was not an equilivant page provided by government.

Today there is a Test Method Collection maintained by the USEPA's Forum on Environmental Measurements.

The links below are specifically intended for practicioners in source evaluation services such as stack emission testing and pollution control engineering studies.

• USEPA Stationary Source Test Methods - Emission Measurement Center (EMC)
  
  • Promulgated  Test Methods (Methods 1 - 321)
  • Proposed Test Methods
  • Approved Alternative Test Methods
  • EMC Conditional Test Methods
  • Preliminary Test Methods
    
    EMC Help
  • EMC Technical Support
  • EMC Directory -  Areas of Method Responsibility and Assistant

• USEPA Ambient Methods
  • "TO" Compedium - Air Toxic Methods TO-1 thru TO-17.
  • Criteria Pollutants - (PM, SO2, CO, NO2, O3 and Pb).
  • Open-Path.
  • Pollution Standard Index.
    
    
• Solid Waste Test Methods SW846
  • Method-related questions.
    
    
• Methods Manual for Compliance with the BIF Regulatons.
  (Note - This manual is not available through the Internet. It can be purchased through NTIS (EPA530-SW-91-010, PB91-120 006)).
  • Table of BIF Methods & Equivalent SW846 Methods.
    
  
  

• USEPA Index to Environmental Test Methods and Guidelines

• NIOSH Manual Of Analytical Methods
  
  
• OSHA Analytical Methods
  
  
• ASTM Standards Search (Note - You can search for standards at this site but they must be purchased. Also the ASTM site is normally veery sloooow).
  
  
• Environmental Monitoring Methods Index The Environmental Monitoring Methods Index is the EPA's official analytical methods database. It provides CAS numbers, regulatory lists and regulatory limits and also contains methods abstracts. Users can compare and evaluate analytical methods applicable to environmental pollutants. The database also contains information on contact points for offices responsible for publishing the analytical methods or regulatory information contained in EMMI.
  (Note - This manual is not available through the Internet. It can be purchased through NTIS).
  
  
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) FGD Chemistry and Analytical Methods Handbook
  (Note - These methods are not available on line or for purchase unless your company is a member of EPRI. However, DRS can obtain photocopies for you for a fee).