NWQP FY2016 Work Plan Guidance

FY2016 Work Plan Guidance General Information

• FY2016 Work Plan Guidance Memo
• FY2016 Work Plan Guidance Matrix
• FY2016 Work Plan Guidance Targets
• FY2016 WSC Contacts
• Update log for FY2016 WPG Homepage

FY2016 Work Plan Guidance Table of Contents

NWQP PROGRAM COMPONENTS

I. Hydrologic Systems

   A. Hydrologic Systems Team

  B. Integrated Watershed Studies

II. Groundwater Monitoring & Assessment

   A. Status and Trends (S&T)

1. FY2016 GW S&T Work Plan
2. FY2016 GW S&T Design
3. Cycle 3 GWPlan–shows number of planned samples per network
4. Optional GW S&T worksheets to budget for different types of GW networks. Totals can be transferred to FY16.WPG.budget.Template.xlsx

  B. Modeling and Mapping (M&M)

1. FY2016 GW M&M Work Plan

III. Surface Water (SW) Monitoring & Assessment

  A. National Water Quality Network (NWQN) [Includes National Monitoring and Status Assessment (NMSA), National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN), National Monitoring Network (NMN), & Hydrologic Benchmark Network (HBN)]

1. FY2016 NFSN Work Plan Guidance     (Revised 12/14/2015)
2. FY2016 NFSN Budget Guidance
3. FY2016 NFSN Design
4. FY2016 SWPLAN      (Revised 12/14/2015)
     - NFSN Chem Sampling
     - NFSN Annual Eco Sampling
     - Sample counts, Sample frequency, and Definitions

  B. Regional Stream Quality Assessment (RSQA)

1. FY2016 NESQA Design Summary
2. FY2016 NESQA Tasks and Budgets
3. FY2016 NESQA Sites

  C. Surface Water Trends

1. FY2016 SW Trends Team Work Plan Guidance

  D. Surface Water Modeling

1. FY2016 SW Modeling Team Work Plan Guidance

IIII. Office of Water Quality Technical Support

  A. BioData

  B. Office of Water Quality Staff & Operations

  C. National Water Quality Laboratory

  D. Branch of Quality Systems

  E. Ocean Action - Water Quality Portal

V. Budget Documents

(Under Revision)

(FYI - As we transition into our new NWQP budget structure for FY16, I may need to update the template and will note below when a revision has been made)

1. Start Here
2. Requested SC Allocations      (Revised 06/16/2015)
3. SC Staffing Summary & SC Budget Summary      (Revised 08/3/2015)
4. GW S&T Staffing & GW S&T Budget
5. GW M&M Staffing & GW M&M Budget
6. NMSA Staffing & NMSA Budget
7. NASQAN Staffing & NASQAN Budget
8. NMN Staffing & NMN Budget
9. HBN Staffing & HBN Budget     (Revised 06/29/2015)
10. NADP Staffing & NADP Budget
11. NPSP Staffing & NPSP Budget
12. SW RSQA Staffing & SW RSQA Budget
13. SW Trends Staffing & SW Trends Budget
14. SW Modeling Staffing & SW Modeling Budget
15. HST Staffing & HST Budget
16. IWS Staffing & IWS Budget
17. Training
18. Other Component Staffing & Other Component Budget

Work Plan Distribution

Bison Alias: GS-W_NAWQA_Annual.WP.Distribution

Completed Science Center (SC) Work Plan Package should contain files requested in the Work Plan Guidance matrix. SC's having a "WP" in their respective columns, need to provide responses to the specific requests. In submitting work plan files, please use the following naming conventions when submitting files:

SWPLAN (file updated and renamed FY16.SC.SWPLAN.yymmdd.xls)

Please submit files to the NAWQA WPG Share Point url: https://collaboration.usgs.gov/wg/nawqa/HQwpg/SitePages/Home.aspx