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DOE DQO Process Guidance Documents

• DOE Memorandum from the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management to DOE field offices dated Sept 7, 1994.

DQO Newsletter

• Volume 1, Number 1 (June 1995), Featured article on "Ranked Set Sampling."
• Volume 1, Number 2 (February 1996), Featured article on "Nondetects: Planning and Statistical Analyses to Mitigate Their Effects."

EPA DQO Guidance Documents

The EPA's Quality Staff (QS) is in the process of building a suite of EPA Requirements Documents (QA/R-x) for EPA and its contractors and accompanying Guidance Documents (QA/G-x). Agency-wide Quality System Documents are available at the EPA website. From this suite of documents, those most directly related to the DQO Process as described here are the:

• QA/G-4 series on the Data Quality Objectives Process
• QA/G-5 series on Quality Assurance Project Plans
• QA/G-9 series on Data Quality Assessment

EPA Statistical Methods Documents

• Methods for Evaluating the Attainment of Cleanup Standards. Vol. 1: Soils and Solid Media, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA 230/02-89-042, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Washington, D. C. 1989. Order Pubs No. PB89-234959 from NTIS (703) 487-4660
• Methods for Evaluating the Attainment of Cleanup Standards, Vol. 2: Ground Water,U. S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA 230-R-92-14, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Washington, D.C. 1992. Order Pubs No. PB94-138815 from NTIS (703) 487-4660.
• Statistical Methods for Evaluating the Attainment of Cleanup Standards. Vol. 3: Reference-Based Standards for Soils and Solid Media, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA 230-R-94-004, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Washington, D.C. 1994.

Book

• Gilbert, Richard O. 1987. Statistical Methods for Environmental Pollution Monitoring. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Journal Articles and Publications

• Neptune, M. Dean, E. P. Brantly, M. J. Messner, and D. I. Michael. 1990. "Quantitative Decision Making in Superfund: a Data Quality Objectives Case Study." Hazardous Materials Control, Vol. 3, No. 3, May-June 1990.
• Ryti, R. T. and D. Neptune. 1991. "Planning Issues for Superfund Site Remediation." Hazardous Material Control, Vol 4, Pg. 47-53.
• Hull, K. and D. Neptune. 1991. "The Data Quality Objectives Process." Journal for Quality and Participation. Pg 72-78.
• Bottrell, D. 1993. "DOE's Development and Application of Planning to Meet Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Data Needs." Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual National Energy & Environmental Quality Division Conference, American Society for Quality Control.
• Pulsipher, B. A. et al. 1994. "Data Quality Objectives Process Applied to Characterization of Hanford Tanks Containing Ferrocyanide." Proceedings of the Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management International Topical Meeting.
• Gilbert, R. O. 1987. Statistical Methods for Environmental Pollution Monitoring, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY.

Online Documents

• Procedural Guidance for Statistically Analyzing Environmental Background Data
• Handbook for Statistical Analysis of Environmental Background Data

Papers and Presentations

• "Software for Considering MQOs within a DQO Framework." EPA's Quality Staff, 19th Annual National Conference on Managing Environmental Quality Systems, April 2000.
• "Using the Data Quality Objectives Process to Revise a Groundwater Monitoring Program: The Experience at Pantex." Improving Long-Term Monitoring & Remedial Systems Performance, June 1999.
• "Application of the Data Quality Objectives Process in Building Decommissioning Charaterization at Pantex, TX." . Report.
• "DQO Implementation Strategies," EPA's Quality Assurance Division, 16th Annual National Meeting on Managing Quality Systems, August 1997.
• "Implementation Issues in Translating Data Quality Objectives into Quality Levels," EPA's Quality Assurance Division, 16th Annual National Meeting on Managing Quality Systems, August 1997.
• "Cataloging Decision Rules for the Hanford Groundwater Data Quality Objectives Case Study," EPA's Quality Assurance Division, 16th Annual National Meeting on Managing Quality Systems, August 1997.
• "Sample Designs Using In Situ Measurements," at In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1997.

Reports

• Progress Toward Improving Front-End Planning for DOE Environmental Management (EM) Projects. Report.
• DOE Methods for Evaluating Environmental and Waste Management Samples. Site.