{"id":89699,"date":"2018-03-07T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7a64d2e0b45656c95559ea18f7523c72"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:31:37","slug":"news-story-changes-to-processes-for-sediment-sampling-and-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89699","title":{"rendered":"News story: Changes to processes for sediment sampling and analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> has now validated other laboratories to provide analysis of sediment samples. As a result it is changing relevant parts of the marine licensing pre-application process.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for marine licences which require analysis for chemical, physical and biological determinands must have an associated sample plan agreed in advance by the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr>. Previously analysis was only provided by the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr>\u2019s technical advisors, The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas). However in order to provide additional choice to applicants other laboratories have now been validated to provide this service.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"new-process-from-1-april-2018\">New process from 1 April 2018<\/h2>\n<p>From 1 April 2018 the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> will only accept requests and provide responses for sample plans to applicants through <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/marinelicensing.marinemanagement.org.uk\/mmofox5\/fox\/live\/MMO_LOGIN\/login\">our Marine Case Management System (MCMS) online portal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All sample plan responses issued after this date will include a list of laboratories which have been validated to undertake sediment analysis, as well as the specific determinands which they are validated to analyse. The list of individual determinands can also be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/marine-licensing-sediment-analysis-and-sample-plans\">viewed on the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This change means that once the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> has issued the sample plan, applicants will be able to make their own independent choice on where to obtain sediment analysis. They will need to contact that laboratory directly to undertake the required analysis.<\/p>\n<p>After the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> has issued the sample plan response with link to validated laboratories it will close the pre-application sample plan request in MCMS.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever validated laboratory is used to undertake sediment analysis, the applicant must submit the results to the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> on the correct template (available from the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> website) to accompany a marine licence application (where applicable). This also applies to marine licences with a requirement to periodically provide sediment analyses to the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> over the duration of that licence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional laboratories now validated to provide sediment sampling and analysis as part of the marine licensing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}