The 2020 “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 2020 QAP has completed one auditor pre-audit consensus workshop, 32 reviews of the county and city QAPP plans, 23 on-site audit of samplings, 26 laboratories auditions. The PT tests for 13 laboratories on soils and sledges with VOCs, total 193 test items. Five laboratories were selected and audited followed by the delivery of the PT samples. With the compilation of all audit findings, one post-audit auditorworkshop and one laboratories workshop has conducted in October. 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 QAPP.

Soil, groundwater, Quality Assurance Project Plans（QAPP）