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Region 9 Guidance for Quality Assurance Program Plans - R9QA/03.2

EPA Pacific Southwest (Region 9) has developed this guidance to assist organizations in developing Quality Assurance Program Plans (QAPPs). QAPPs are intended to establish policies that define and document the type and quality of data needed for program level environmental decisions and to describe the methods required for collecting, analyzing, and assessing data to support those decisions.

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  • EPA Region 9 Guidance for Quality Assurance Program Plans - R9qa/03.2 (PDF)(60 pp, 717 K, 03/2012)
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 has developed this guidance to assist organizations in developing Quality Assurance Program Plans (QAPrP). QAPrPs are intended to establish policies that define and document the type and quality of data needed for program level environmental decisions and to describe the methods required for collecting, analyzing, and assessing data to support those decisions.