Data Source and Calculation
The Office of Air Quality Monitoring has begun installing upgraded hardware that will replace performing the current manual Quality Assurance processes with automated processes. The new QA procedures will run automatically and the regional personnel will be able to check the results remotely which will results in cost savings to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Office of Air Quality Monitoring will provide the data for this performance measure by calculating the percent of the total number of sites that have been upgraded. The total number of sites is 24 continuous monitoring sites. The performance measure will be calculated as a percent of the total number of sites that have been upgraded.