Codes Regulations and Standards

ASTM, the American Society of Testing and Materials, provides a fairly good overview of standards.

The Government Printing Office on-line site provides access to a number of federal documents including the the Congressional Record, the U.S. Code, Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, Supreme Court Decisions, the Commerce Business Daily, etc.

Montana Tech is a partial Federal Depository Library and in addition has a number of other government documents in its collection.

Assignment:

The Governor of Montana is concerned that the drinking water treatment plants in Montana communities with populations between 1001 and 2500 need to be modernized. Montana standards for inorganic and organic contaminents remain controversial and still a matter of legislative debate and so he has asked you to develop a report based on federal drinking water standards for a particular contaminent. The report should indicate the maximum contaminent level, the frequency of sampling of that contaminent, how that contaminent should be preserved, and all the possible EPA and/or ASTM methods for analyzing for the contaminent and their associated detection limits. Of course the pertinent CFRs from which this information is obtained should be appropriately referenced, as should the EPA and/or ASTM analytical methods. He would like you to provide photocopies of the first page of the analytical method exhibiting the lowest detection limit and the MSDS for the contaminent or its sodium salt. He will need to refer efficiently to this material during a presentation to the legislature and so he would like your report to be clearly type-written and no more than one page in length.

Assignment Notes:

1. The particular contaminent on which you will base your report will be assigned to you.