Sector Lead Recalculate emission estimates for previous Roles and 9 inventory (if applicable) and explain Sector Leads 1 month Responsibilities changes in narrative text (in EPA Toolkit) EPA Description Complete internal quality control (QC) Sector of QA/QC 10 procedures, including additional internal QA/QC 1 Procedures reviews as described in the QA/QC plan Coordinator Template Complete external quality assurance (QA) Sector EPA Description procedures (e.g., stakeholders, advisory Leads, of QA/QC 11 1-2 months committee) including any additional external QA/QC Procedures reviews as described in the QA/QC plan Coordinator Template Sector Lead Revise GHG estimates and narrative text Roles and 12 Sector Leads 1-2 weeks based upon QA/QC reviews Responsibilities (in EPA Toolkit) Sector EPA Methods & Complete Uncertainty Analysis (if Leads, Data 13 applicable). Document Uncertainty methods 2-4 weeks Uncertainty Documentation using MDD Template. Coordinator (MDD) Template, NIC Roles and Compile sector narratives into one 14 NIC 1-2 weeks Qualifications (in document EPA Toolkit) Perform Key Category Analysis (KCA) on GHG estimates. Conduct a Level Analysis, and conduct a Trend Analysis if multiple years of EPA data are available. 15 NIC 1 week EPA Key Use the EPA materials to learn more about Category conducting a KCA (the webinar), to do the Analysis (KCA) analysis (the tool), and to document the Template results (the template). EPA Description of QA/QC Procedures Prepare the draft inventory chapter or NIC, QA/QC 16 2-3 weeks Template report. Perform internal QC checks. Coordinator Address comments from QC review and 17 NIC 2-3 weeks finalize inventory chapter or report.
9 Recalculate emission estimates for previous inventory (if applicable) and explain changes in narrative text Sector Leads 1 month Sector Lead Roles and Responsibilities (in EPA Toolkit) 10 Complete internal quality control (QC) procedures, including additional internal reviews as described in the QA/QC plan Sector QA/QC Coordinator 1 EPA Description of QA/QC Procedures Template 11 Complete external quality assurance (QA) procedures (e.g., stakeholders, advisory committee) including any additional external reviews as described in the QA/QC plan Sector Leads, QA/QC Coordinator 1-2 months EPA Description of QA/QC Procedures Template 12 Revise GHG estimates and narrative text based upon QA/QC reviews Sector Leads 1-2 weeks Sector Lead Roles and Responsibilities (in EPA Toolkit) 13 Complete Uncertainty Analysis (if applicable). Document Uncertainty methods using MDD Template. Sector Leads, Uncertainty Coordinator 2-4 weeks EPA Methods & Data Documentation (MDD) Template, 14 Compile sector narratives into one document NIC 1-2 weeks NIC Roles and Qualifications (in EPA Toolkit) 15 Perform Key Category Analysis (KCA) on GHG estimates. Conduct a Level Analysis, and conduct a Trend Analysis if multiple years of data are available. Use the EPA materials to learn more about conducting a KCA (the webinar), to do the analysis (the tool), and to document the results (the template). NIC 1 week EPA EPA Key Category Analysis (KCA) Template 16 Prepare the draft inventory chapter or report. Perform internal QC checks. NIC, QA/QC Coordinator 2-3 weeks EPA Description of QA/QC Procedures Template 17 Address comments from QC review and finalize inventory chapter or report. NIC 2-3 weeks