NEIC Menu of Services for Criminal Project Support

Initial Case Development

Field Forensic Development

LABORATORY FORENSIC SUPPORT

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Lead Development and Consultation

Field and Lab support

Review documents

Research and locate
company regulatory and
operation information and
documents

Participate in interviews

Draft interview questions for technical
aspects of case

Draft grand jury subpoena questions

Form 9 Development

Provide Scientific and regulatory
consultation

Review documents (i.e., analytical reports
from outside laboratories, permits)

Participate in interviews

Draft grand jury subpoena questions

Conduct regulatory evaluation

Electronic monitoring data review (i.e.,
process operations information)

GENERAL

Providing training - EIB, CID In-service,
Webinars, Dangerous Goods shipping,
sampling, regulations, and other technical
topics, etc.

Participating in CID Conference Calls/Meetings

Participating in Staff Meetings

Locating outside technical expertise support

Sampling Strategy Development

Sample Matrices: air, soil, water, industrial materials, asbestos
Representative sampling under RCRA
Statistical sampling strategy
Composite sampling strategy
Targeted sampling strategy
Develop QAPPs and HASPs

Provide regulatory expertise (Credentialed inspectors in: RCRA, CWA, SDWA, CAA,
CAA 112r, EPCRA)

Serve as onsite Health and Safety Officer
Provide chemists for field support

Conduct field measurement and sampling in support of consent searches and search
warrants

Field identification of unknown substances using FTIR/Raman

Installation and retrieval of automatic samplers in sewers for probable cause
development: pH and metals

Water monitoring with multiparameter sondes

Industrial discharges parameters: time, pH, temperature, water level or
depth, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, rhodamine, blue-green algae,
chlorophyll, salinity

Freshwater parameters: nitrate, ammonia, chloride
Field screening for metal compounds using XRF
Tracing of discharge pathways using dye studies
Field identification of refrigerants (CFC/HCFC/HFC)

Volatile emission detection using Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera
Remote water sensor monitoring platform (IMPRESS)

Shipping of samples to ensure compliance with regulatory and custody requirements
Report writing (Field and Lab activities)

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Evaluation of samples to determine compliance with RCRA, CWA,
TSCA, FIFRA, CERCLA, and CAA

RCRA hazardous waste characteristic testing

Analysis of wastewater and environmental water
samples for chemical content

Ozone depleting chemicals analysis (chlorofluoro
and hydrofluorocarbons, CFC/HCFC/HFC)

Identification of unknown substances

Pesticide analysis

Review outside laboratory reports to determine if methodology is
correct/help interpret data/etc.

Determine laboratory methods to meet data quality objectives
Develop analytical methods for unique samples or analytes
Sample evidence management and destruction

LITIGATION SUPPORT

Trial preparation

Testifying as fact witness

Trial exhibits (i.e., help produce, interpret defense
exhibits, review)

Expert reports - regulatory, technical (chemistry/
science/engineering), toxicology, and statistical

Expert witness testimony - regulatory, technical (chemistry/
science/engineering), toxicology, and statistical

Expertise

CAA stationary and mobile sources, RCRA, CWA, SDWA, FIFRA,
CAA 112(r)

Chemistry

Toxicology

Statistics


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