Section 185.103  Definitions

Unless specified otherwise, all terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Act.  For purposes of this Part, the following definitions apply:

            "Act" means the Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS 5].

            "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

            "Anniversary date of the initial certification" means the date of the laboratory's last certification with the Agency pursuant to the laboratory certification program.

            "Applicant" means an environmental laboratory that applies for certification and determination of assessments for public water supply analyses, water pollution analyses, and for hazardous and other waste parameters pursuant to Section 17.8 of the Act.

            "Assessment" or "Fee" means the assessment prescribed by Section 17.8 of the Act.

            "Inorganic Parameters" means all parameters not included in organic parameters.

            "Organic Parameters" means all parameters analyzed by all forms of gas chromatography and high pressure liquid chromatography (excluding ion chromatography).