R6 QA Training for Region 6 Employees

Welcome to the Region 6 QA training

Please view the following taped video sessions for this training and then proceed to the quiz below. You may need to adjust your speaker sound or follow along using the provided subtitles. Take as long as you want reviewing these video sessions. If you take a break, simply forward to where you left off!

Training Resources Below:

  1. Region 6 Quality Assurance Overview(for both EPA employees and grantees and stakeholders outside of EPA)

Description: This is an informational course providing an overview of the Agency’s Quality Program for both EPA personnel and grantees and stakeholders outside of EPA.

  1. Region 6 Quality Management Plan Standard Training(for both EPA employees and grantees and stakeholders outside of EPA)

Description: This is an informational course providing training about the Quality Management Plan Standard for EPA organizations and Non-EPA organizations

  1. Region 6 Quality Assurance Project Plan Training(for both EPA employees and grantees and stakeholders outside of EPA)

Description: This is an informational course providing training about the Quality Management Plan Standard for EPA organizations and Non-EPA organizations.

  1. Region 6 QMP 2020

Description: This course provides Region 6 QA personnel with information on the 2020 approved QMP. Next revision due Fiscal Year 2026.

Additional Resources:

  1. QA with Respect to Region 6 Field Activities
  2. QA Training How to Prepare and Review QAPPs
  3. Quality Management Training, QA in Contracting
  4. Uniform Federal Policy for Quality Assurance Project Plans - Training Materials

Quiz Instructions:

Please take the quiz below after reviewing the videos. The videos provided under Additional Resources are for further assistance and not required for the quiz. You will need to complete this quiz in one sitting (without taking breaks) by obtaining a score of 90% or above prior to moving forward and obtaining your certificate.

Please remember to write down the Unlock Key when you passed the quiz.

1. ______ is a DQO Process:

2. The Group B Elements contain information about:

3. Environmental Information Operations are:

4. Three Primary Roles in the QAPP:

5. Personnel responsible for conducting environmental information operations identified in the QAPP shall have appropriate:

6. The Quality Program helps to:

7. Establishes policy and program requirements for the preparation and implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Quality Program.

8. Quantitative or qualitative representation of values, facts, observations, or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being transmitted, processed, stored, analyzed, interpreted, and/or communicated by some process, whether on paper or in electronic form are:

9. _______shall identify all components of the organization including the position or role of staff members; lines of communication and authority; and lines of reporting for the QAM and QA staff.

10. An iterative four-step approach for managing, planning, implementing, and administering continual improvement over the lifecycle of environmental information operations.

11. The Project QAM shall not be independent of environmental information operations.

12. Assessments ensure that the planned project activities in the QAPP are implemented as approved.

13. Data Quality Assessment is the scientific and statistical evaluation of data to determine if the data obtained from environmental information operations are of the right type, quality, and quantity to support their intended use.

14. The Quality Management Plan (QMP) describes an organization’s Quality Program.

15. EPA Quality Program Directives are policies that help shape an organizations quality program.

16. The primary goal of EPA’s Quality Program is to ensure that our environmental information is of known and documented quantity and quality to support the intended use of the information.

17. The requirements in the QMP Standard only applies to Non-EPA Organizations if specified.

18. Activities conducted that require the collection of observations, samples, or data in support of EPA’s mission are QA Field Activities.

19. The Graded Approach can be used to exclude required information from an organizations Quality Management Plan.

20. Once a QMP has been reviewed and approved in EPA’s Region 6, its expiration date is set at five years from the date of approval, unless a shorter period is specified.

 Remember the value for Unlock Key is Geo_Power

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Last updated on September 26, 2025