The 2016 “Supervision and Inspection Plan for the Quality Assurance of Projects Relevant to Soil and Groundwater Pollution Investigation” focused on various soil and groundwater protection and associated projects of the Environmental Protection Administration of the Republic of China with its county and city EPA. The QAP executes 1. Review of the original individual plan per the Quality Assurance Project Plan framework. 2. Audit the on-site sampling activities. 3. Laboratory audition. 4. Proficiency Test on blind CRM. 5. Workshops on auditors and environmental laboratories one time separately. According to the project objectives, the 2016 QAP has completed 54 reviews of the county and city QAPP plans, 35 on-site audit of samplings, 60 laboratories auditions. The PT tests for 13 laboratories on soils, groundwater and sledges with heavy metal and volatile organic compounds, total 218 items. With the compilation of all audit findings, one auditor pre-audit consensus workshop, post-audit auditorworkshop and one laboratories workshop were conducted. All QAP project objectives have been fulfilled. The main target of this QAP is aimed to assure the each county and city soil and groundwater environmental protection project was properly executed according to its original QAPP on sampling and laboratory testing. All laboratories and county city EPA were informed by the non-compliance findings officially with the corresponding correction activities to improve the laboratories testing skill and data quality. The future project will be aiming at the same direction to fortify the core objectives of this QAP.

Soil, groundwater, Quality Assurance Project Plans（QAPP）