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Quality Management Plan
This document defines the Great Lakes National Program Office’s (GLNPO’s)
quality system. GLNPO is a geographically-focused office, whose mission is
to lead and coordinate United States efforts to protect and restore the
Great Lakes. This QMP is a management tool that describes how GLNPO will
plan, implement, document, and assess its quality system to support its
mission. The document also communicates the policy and provides guidance on
GLNPO’s quality management system to all personnel associated with GLNPO.
The document has been submitted to GLNPO management and OEI’s Quality Staff
for review and approval.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Order 5360.1 A2 Policy and Program
Requirements for the Mandatory Agency-wide Quality System, May 2000
(Appendix A), establishes policy and program requirements for the
preparation and implementation of quality management systems. The order
requires that all EPA organizational units participate in a centrally
managed quality assurance
(QA) program. This Agency-wide system management system provides the
necessary elements to plan, implement, document, and assess the
effectiveness of quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) activities
applied to environmental programs conducted by or for EPA. The intent is to
develop a consistent approach to environmental decisions that ensures the
collection of supporting data that are scientifically sound, legally
defensible, and of known and documented quality. The Office of Environmental
Information’s (OEI’s) Quality Staff is responsible for developing,
coordinating and directing the implementation of the Agency’s QA program.
The documents that comprise our quality management plan are
large. If
you have difficulty accessing these documents from this web page, please
consider requesting a compact disk containing the documents. We will
be happy to mail it to you.
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