Work Item
ASTM WK82637
Revision of D3666-16 Standard Specification for Minimum Requirements for Agencies Testing and Inspecting Road and Paving Materials
Rationale
• Changing the title and body language from Road and Paving Materials to Asphalt Paving Materials, and Bituminous to Asphalt
• Standardizing the terms Quality System, Quality System Manual and QSM to Quality Management System (or QMS)
• Replacing Laboratory with Agency
• Adding two additional accreditation fields to D3666: -Asphalt Binder and
-Emulsified Asphalt, along with tests, equipment and other requirements to be met for accreditation
• Clarifying that D3666 accreditation requires at least one of these fields: -Asphalt Mixture, -Aggregates, -Asphalt Binder or -Emulsified Asphalt
• Updating the referenced document section to include these two accreditations
• Removing redundant definitions in section 3. Terminology
• Making changes to section 7.1 Management and Supervision of Laboratory to clarify licensure and experience requirements
• Moving language from various notes to the body of the standard, thus making them mandatory, and removing the notes
• Adding sieves and molds to the list of major equipment
• Making changes to equipment calibration/verification/check documentation
• Making changes to sieve checking requirements in Table 4
• Clarifying what trainees can do regarding testing of materials covered in this standard
• Provide guidance on the term “full-time employee”
Work Item Status
Date Initiated: 07-06-2022
Technical Contact: Glenn Waite
Item: 021
Ballot: D04 (22-04)
Status: In Balloting