EPA Quality Program

EPA is committed to the collection, production, evaluation, and use of environmental information of known and documented quality.  Incorporating quality assurance improves EPA’s policy-making and analysis and helps drive reliable, cost-effective, and legally defensible decisions all while preventing unacceptable environmental and human health risks to individuals and communities.

• Program Documents

  

  EPA Quality Directives include policy, procedures, standards and guidance.

  Learn about Quality Directives

• Information Quality Guidelines (IQG)

  

  Ensuring EPA Information Quality.

  Learn about IQG

• Quality Assurance Managers (QAMs)

  

  QAMs implement EPA's Quality Program.

  Find QAM Contact Information

• Resources

  

  Information available to help you learn more about the Quality Program.

  Get Resources about EPA's Quality Program

• Regional Offices

  

  Regional Offices develop and implement their own individual Quality Program.

  Get Region Specific Information

• Have a Question?

  

  General questions about the Quality Program.

  Read the Frequent Questions