Department of Defense BEST PRACTICES FOR DATA QUALITY OVERSIGHT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING AND TESTING ACTIVITIES - NEXT STEPS

The DoD EDQW was established to coordinate the development of environmental policy relative to environmental sampling and testing issues. The charter includes a responsibility to develop and recommend broad military component policy affecting sampling and testing operations that perform analyses of environmental samples in order to:

• Ensure the Generation of Environmental Data of Known and Documented Quality;
• Reduce Unnecessary Duplication and Program Costs;
• Ensure Compliance with Established Standards;
• Promote Wise Use of Environmental Resources; and
• Improve Overall Performance.

The EDQW has established subgroups to carry out it's responsibilities. Figure 1 provides the EDQW organizational structure.

The appropriate EDQW subgroup will assess the strongest Management Practices, develop a strategy for implementing the recommendation(s) and develop a Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) for completion of the recommendations. All POA&Ms should be in place within 90 days from the final issuance of this report. Table 2 shows the lead assignments for these actions. The DASN(ES) will track completion of the actions.

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