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Main Title U.S. EPA Ambient Air Protocol Gas Verification Program : annual report for calendar year 2015.
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Assessment Division,
Year Published 2016
Report Number EPA-454/R-16-001
Stock Number PB2016-104784
OCLC Number 959929447
Subjects Air--Pollution--United States--Measurement ; Air quality management ; Gases--Identification ; Air--Pollution--Measurement
Additional Subjects Air pollution monitoring ; Calibration standards ; Quality assurance ; US EPA ; Audits ; Certification ; Chemical analyses ; Performance standards ; Quality control ; References(Standards) ; Protocol gases ; Annual report
Internet Access
Description Access URL
https://www3.epa.gov/ttnamti1/files/ambient/qaqc/AA_PGVP_2015_Report.pdf
https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100PIG5.PDF
Holdings
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Status
EKBD  EPA-454/R-16-001 Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 10/29/2018
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA-454-R-16-001 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
NTIS  PB2016-104784 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation vi, 36 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Abstract
The basic principles of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) Traceability Protocol for the Assay and Certification of Gaseous Calibration Standards (EPA, 1997) were developed jointly by EPA, the National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)), and specialty gas producers over 30 years ago. At the time, commercially-prepared calibration gases were perceived as being too inaccurate and too unstable for use in calibrations and audits of continuous source emission monitors and ambient air quality monitors. The protocol was developed to improve their quality by establishing their traceability to NIST Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) and to provide reasonably priced products. This protocol established the gas metrological procedures for measurement and certification of these calibration gases for EPA's Acid Rain Program under 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 75, for the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Program under 40 CFR Part 58, and for the Source Testing Program under 40 CFR Parts 60, 61, and 68. EPA required monitoring organizations implementing these programs (the regulated community) to use EPA Protocol Gases as their calibration gases. EPA revised the protocol to establish detailed statistical procedures for estimating the total uncertainty of these gases. EPA's Acid Rain Program developed acceptance criteria for the uncertainty estimate.
Notes
EPA project officer: Solomon Ricks. "EPA-454/R-16-001." "April, 2016." "AA-PGVP 205 Report 4/2016."