AQS Tribal Reporting to AQS
AQS Tribal Users,
Our office has been required to provide EPA headquarters with a periodic analysis of which tribes have reported to AQS.
A separate tribal database has recently been developed to be used for this reporting analysis. This tribal database will be periodically updated with new information from AQS. To simplify the routine extractions to update this tribal database, a consistent coding procedure for site/monitor meta data is used.
AQS now uses a consistent coding procedure for tribal data. The consistency for all tribal data includes:
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Use the tribal code to register any site that is located on tribal land or is operated or supported by tribal resources. The code for the specific tribe would be used. We have only registered tribal codes for tribes that we know have requested a new screening group or had agency codes assigned before the current 3-digit tribal codes were used. Any tribal agency code can be registered upon request, even though the site would be registered with the tribal code, the geographic codes are also assigned in the system and could continue to be used for submitting data.
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Code the tribal agency code as the site supporting agency and as monitor agencies (reporting agency, PQAO, Collecting, analyzing) based on the roles that apply.
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Code the monitor type as "Tribal Monitors" to allow for retrieval by that classification for regular reports.
Tribal Codes are received from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and is updated periodically per OMS.
Thanks,
OID/OAQPS/OAR/EPA