EPA Method 2001

This method was prepared under the direction of William A. Telliard of the Engineering and Analysis Division within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Water. The EPA technical lead was Paul Berger, of the Standards and Risk Management Division within the Office of Water. This document was prepared under EPA Contract No. 68-C-98-139 by DynCorp Information & Enterprise Technology, Inc.

The contributions of the following persons and organizations to the development of this method are gratefully acknowledged: Sobsey, Mark, Ming Jing Wu, and Greg Lovelace, University of North Carolina, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, CB#7400, McGavran-Greenberg Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Hsu, Fu-Chih, and Jim Larkin, Environmental Health Laboratories, 110 South Hill Street

South Bend, IN 46617 Chambers, Yildiz, City of San Diego Marine Microbiology Laboratory, 5530 Kiowa Drive, La Mesa, CA 91942 Cliver, Dean, Tadesse Mariam, and Mulugeta Tamene, University of California Davis, Department of Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616-8743