Grantees and small consultants collecting environmental data
Check your quality assurance project plan against EPA's QAPP Standard: the four element groups, who approves it and when. A free checklist.
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What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the NEPA environmental assessment door.
Modeled on: EPA QAPP Standard, CIO 2105-S-02.1 (2024)
From public data
of required elements make up a QAPP under EPA's 2024 standard: project management, implementation, assessment and oversight, and information review
Source: EPA QAPP Standard, CIO 2105-S-02.1
Draft a NEPA environmental assessment and FONSI, or an EIS outline, that follows a reference document. Free to read; every unconfirmed fact is marked.
Questions
Before the work. EPA's standard says QAPPs must be approved before environmental information is collected, produced, evaluated or used, except where immediate action is needed to protect human health and the environment.
EPA's standard arranges the required elements in four groups: A, project management and data quality objectives; B, implementing environmental information operations; C, assessment and oversight; D, information review and usability.
If it involves environmental data. Quality assurance applies to all EPA assistance agreements involving environmental data collection, production or use, and the recipient submits a written quality assurance system for EPA approval.
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Answer it and ePlan opens the NEPA environmental assessment door, which drafts the paperwork.