SEAN environmental contaminants SOP 6: Revising the protocol package (deliverable EC_I)
Sergeant C and Johnson W. 2018. SEAN environmental contaminants SOP 6: Revising the protocol package (deliverable EC_I). NPS
Periodically, changes must be made to the protocol narrative, DQS-QAP, and SOPs to take advantage of better technologies, equipment, and methods. Changes may also be made to support changed staffing levels, correct oversights in previous documents, or redefine and update the forms of deliverable data products. This SOP details the method for revising and formally accepting a new protocol package. The Project Leader and Data Manager record desired changes in a running list. The list is periodically examined until it is decided that a revision cycle in appropriate. In conjunction with the Program Manager, they review the issues, accept some or all of them for consideration, and draft new language to reflect accepted changes. One person is chosen to coordinate the new document and be responsible for the new draft. Changes to major key items will trigger an external review of the draft document. After satisfying both internal and, if required, external reviewers, the updated protocol documents go through formal validation and acceptance by the Program Manager and Data Manager. If any NRR publication is involved, the IMD publications staff must also approve its content. The accepted Protocol Narrative NRR, DQS-QAP and SOP Set package are widely disseminated under a unique protocol id using the NPS Data Store.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Sergeant, Christopher; Johnson, William
- Date of Issue
- 2018
- Publisher
- NPS
- Units
- GLBA , KLGO , SEAN , SITK
- Keywords
- environmental contaminants, protocol
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Air Quality | Wet and Dry Deposition , Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Air Quality | Air Contaminants , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Toxics