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Ambient Air Monitoring Quality Assurance Guidance Documents

This page contains links to Quality Assurance guidance documents for the ambient air monitoring networks.

  • NPAP Implementation Decision Memorandum for Calendar Year 2021 (pdf) (2.9 MB)
  • Technical Note- Clarifications and Guidance on Residence Time Determination (pdf) (420.64 KB, June 2019)
  • Guide to Writing Quality Assurance Project Plans for Ambient Air Monitoring Networks (pdf) (521.81 KB, August 2018)
    Guide to Air Monitoring QAPP
  • QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems: "Volume I: A Field Guide to Environmental Quality Assurance (pdf) (1.1 MB, April 1994)
  • QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems:"Volume II: Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program (pdf) (4.75 MB, January 2017)
  • Quality Assurance Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems - Volume IV: Meteorological Measurements (pdf) (5.11 MB)
  • Planned Edits for Revision to the 2017 QA Handbook (pdf) (83.06 KB, March 2018)
  • QA Handbook Appendix D Validation Templates (pdf) (399.98 KB, March 2017)
  • Minor Changes to the January 2017 Version of the Validation Template (pdf) (92.15 KB, March 2017)
  • QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems: "Volume V: Precipitation Measurement Systems (pdf) (8.57 MB, April 1994)
  • Through the Probe Auditing of Ambient Air Monitoring Instruments at Trace Levels (pdf) (4.58 MB)
  • Section 2.10 of QA Handbook Reference Method for the determination of PM10 (Dichotomous Sampler Method) at Standard Temperature and Pressure (pdf) (37.14 MB)
  • Section 2.11 of QA Handbook Reference Method for the determination of PM10 (high Volume PM10 Sampler) at Standard Temperature and Pressure (pdf) (58.42 MB)

Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center (AMTIC)

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Last updated on November 18, 2024
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