Also, U.S. EPA's Pesticide Office will be releasing guidance on doing field scale monitoring relative to pesticides in ground water.

Recommended Position:

• Relevant Issue Briefs may include Monitoring Well Driller Licensing and Ground Water Protection.

• The monitoring well construction requirements should be technically accurate.

• The monitoring well construction requirements should be practical and be able to be applied in field conditions.

• The monitoring well construction requirements must consider available technology.

• The monitoring well construction requirements should consider costs to the extent that is applicable within the overall goals of the ground water monitoring program.

• Any upcoming monitoring requirements should be guidance oriented as opposed to prescriptive.