Air Quality: Quality Assurance Section
The Quality Assurance Section develops and maintains the air monitoring quality assurance program for Indiana. The quality assurance program involves site selection, monitoring equipment selection, audit/calibration equipment and procedures, sampling procedures, data validation, chain-of-custody, data reporting, precision/accuracy reporting, and meteorological monitoring issues with a primarily focus on ambient air quality monitoring. (See Quality Assurance Section Functions for additional information.)
Indiana's Quality Assurance program is described in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), Office of Air Quality (OAQ), Quality Assurance Manual (QAM). This document endeavors to address ambient monitoring and quality assurance issue requirements in a user friendly format and it is used as guidance for all air monitoring networks operating in Indiana. By providing common guidance and requirements, data from throughout the state can be compared with confidence.
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