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About Region 9's Quality Assurance Office
The Quality Assurance Office's primary mission is to effectively oversee and carry out the EPA Region 9 Quality System and project-level quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) activities. More specifically, the Office's responsibilities include:
- Providing training and information on data quality;
- Conducting Quality System oversight of EPA Regional programs, grantees (states, tribes and locals), contractors, other federal agencies, and the regulated community under EPA enforcement orders, to ensure that adequate quality systems are in place to support data collection and usage;
- Conducting Project Level QA/QC oversight;
- Providing QA and technical support to Regional Programs, States, Tribes, and local governments;
- Carrying out EPA environmental monitoring initiatives such as the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP);
- Assessing the impact of laboratory integrity cases on EPA regulatory decisions; and
- Administering Region 9's Alternative Testing Procedures (ATP) program by reviewing and approving ATP applications submitted by NPDES permitees.