QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. A. If Grantee uses the services of any subcontractors, Grantee is entirely responsible to DSHS for the performance of those subcontractors. Accordingly:
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. To avoid doubt, it is your responsibility to apply to the Ministry of Health for a quality assurance activity to be protected under the HPCA Act if you would like the protections in that Act to apply to you. Any protected quality assurance activity that we obtain will not cover services provided by you. D19.6 Major Incident and Health Emergency Plan
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. If Xxxxxxx enters into any contract(s) with subgrantees, Grantee will be entirely responsible to DSHS for the performance of the subgrantee. If subgrantees are used, Grantee is expected to adequately monitor the implementation of interventions and other grant funded activities under this Contract, including but not limited to, the efficient and effective use of resources by the subgrantee(s), and the capacity and performance of subgrantee staff implementing interventions and other grant funded activities under this Contract, and ensuring that subgrantees are properly collecting and reporting data. DSHS staff may also monitor the subgrantees’ activities and conduct periodic site visits, with prior notification to the Grantee. Grantee will:
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. To avoid doubt, it is your responsibility to apply to the Ministry of Health for a quality assurance activity to be protected under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Xxx 0000 if you would like the protections in that Act to apply to you. Any protected quality assurance activity that we obtain will not cover services provided by you. D19.6 Major Incident and Health Emergency Plan
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. A. If Grantee enters into any contract(s) with subcontractor(s), it is entirely responsible to DSHS for the performance of the subcontractor(s). If subcontractors are used, Grantee is expected to adequately monitor the implementation of interventions and other funded activities under this Contract, the efficient and effective use of resources by the subcontractor(s), and the capacity and performance of subcontractor staff implementing interventions and other funded activities under this Contract, and ensure that subcontractors are properly collecting and reporting data. DSHS staff may also monitor the subcontractor’s activities and conduct periodic site visits, with notification to the Grantee.
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. A. Grantee shall:
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. The uncertainty characterizations developed in this task will be reviewed by an independent stakeholder panel assembled for the project. The expert panel will be selected by and will report to the Principal Investigator and the Quality Assurance Coordinator for the project. The stakeholder panel will provide verbal and written reviews of the uncertainty characterizations.
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. Since the specifics of the quality assurance activities will depend on the equipment selected for sampling, each data collection plan will have a Quality Assurance Plan update. This update will address quality objectives, experimental design, measurement methods, and data quality assessments for the specific equipment considered in the plan. The quality objectives for each emissions source type within each industry segment will be developed in consultation with the EPA Project Officer and advice from interested stakeholders based on what are judged to be acceptable limits to the emission factor uncertainties. Once these objectives have been established, we will develop our experimental design, which will address the minimum numbers of valid measurements required and the stratifications of each emissions source types by factors such as age, size, type of service, work practice, and others on which the emission factors might depend. The variability in measurement data found in earlier studies as well as our team members’ knowledge of the natural gas industry will be taken into account when stratifying source populations and determining the minimum numbers of samples needed for each source type. Practices used to reduce CH4 emissions and accessibility of activity data needed for practical applications of the new emission factors will also be taken into account in determining the optimum source stratification.
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. Emission rate measurements for Phase 1 sources will be made using traditional methods that have had widespread use in the natural gas industry. Emissions from fugitive leak sources (e.g., compressors) will be measured using either the EPA protocol for screening and bagging fugitive components or the GTI Hi-Flow sampler approach. In the EPA method, fugitive leak components are isolated from the environment by enclosing them in sealed bags or tents. Carrier gas (e.g., zero-air or nitrogen) is then blown or drawn through the enclosures at controlled rates and the CH4 in the carrier gas exiting the enclosures is measured. Emission rates are calculated from the carrier gas flow rates and CH4 concentrations. In the GTI approach, a large volume of air is drawn from around the leaking component – sufficient to capture the entire leak – into a sampling line. Mass flow rate in the sampled air is determined using a thermal anemometer and the concentration of CH4 or other hydrocarbons in the sample is determined by a dual detection system (catalytic-oxidation/thermal-conductivity) that allows concentrations to be measured over the range of 0.01 to 100 percent. The instrument operator controls sampling rate so that the concentration of CH4 in the sampled air is as high as possible, yet less than 100%, to ensure that the entire leak is captured. As in bagging studies, the leak rate is determined by the product of the flow rate and the CH4 concentration. The emission rates from vented sources will be measured using appropriate flow-through measurement devices, such as a precision rotary meter, diaphragm flow meter, or rotameter, or by measuring the velocity profile and flow area across the vent line. The emission (field) data will be collected by a team consisting of a technician experienced in emission factor collection, and an analytical chemist from the University of Texas. Once the data are collected, staff at the University of Texas will process the data to determine emission rates. Data obtained from Task 3 will necessarily be collected from a limited number of sources, as measuring all emission sources is prohibitively expensive and time consuming. Therefore, a key component of Task 3 is the statistical analysis of the data to ensure that uncertainties are reduced for the emission sources of interest. Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) will be developed for each technical plan developed in the project. The SOPs developed will be followed for routine collection of...
QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES. All of the communication materials will be reviewed by the study’s stakeholder panel and the EPA Project Officer prior to release.
