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Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Environmental Protection Agency

These guidelines also outline administrative mechanisms for EPA pre-dissemination review of information products and describe some new mechanisms to enable affected persons to seek and obtain corrections from EPA regarding disseminated information that they believe does not comply with EPA or OMB guidelines.

Visit our Frequent Questions page to find more information about the Information Quality Guidelines process. Visit our Requests for Correction and Requests for Reconsideration Submitted to EPA page to view recent requests for correction or reconsideration.

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