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			<theme>
				<themekt>EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus</themekt>
				<themekey>Air</themekey>
				<themekey>Facilities</themekey>
			</theme>
			<place>
				<placekt>None</placekt>
				<placekey>United States</placekey>
			</place>
			<theme>
				<themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Category</themekt>
				<themekey>environment</themekey>
				<themekey>health</themekey>
			</theme>
		</keywords>
		<citation>
			<citeinfo>
				<origin>US Environmental Protection Agency</origin>
				<title>Air Quality Flags Program, U.S., 2017, EPA/OAR/OAQPS/OID</title>
				<pubinfo>
					<publish>U.S. EPA Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) - Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS)</publish>
					<pubplace>Research Triangle Park, NC</pubplace>
				</pubinfo>
				<pubdate>20170420</pubdate>
				<onlink>https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6346986ac0e84a41b54fb51273c48dbc</onlink>
				<onlink>https://services.arcgis.com/cJ9YHowT8TU7DUyn/arcgis/rest/services/AirFlags_View/FeatureServer</onlink>
				<onlink>https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=flag_program.index</onlink>
				<onlink>https://www3.epa.gov/airquality/</onlink>
			</citeinfo>
		</citation>
		<timeperd>
			<current>Publication date</current>
			<timeinfo>
				<sngdate>
					<caldate>20170420</caldate>
				</sngdate>
			</timeinfo>
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		<status>
			<progress>Complete</progress>
			<update>irregular</update>
		</status>
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				<westbc>-160.193232</westbc>
				<eastbc>-71.032651</eastbc>
				<northbc>62.650404</northbc>
				<southbc>25.993468</southbc>
			</bounding>
		</spdom>
		<accconst>None</accconst>
		<useconst>None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currency and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata.  Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated.</useconst>
		<descript>
			<abstract>This map service contains participants in EPA's Air Quality Flags Program.  The map service also includes the current day's AQI forecast for each participant in the program.

The Air Quality Flag Program alerts organizations to the local air quality forecast and helps them to take actions to protect people’s health, including those with asthma. 

 Here's how it works: each day your organization raises a flag that corresponds to how clean or polluted the air is. The color of the flag matches EPA's Air Quality Index (AQI): green, yellow, orange, red, and purple.

 On unhealthy days, your organization can use this information to adjust physical activities to help reduce exposure to air pollution, while still keeping people active.</abstract>
			<purpose>This purpose of this GIS dataset is to help promote the Air Quality Flags Program by providing on online presence for the program.  It also provides daily AQI forecasts at all the program participant locations.</purpose>
		</descript>
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			<secsys>http://project-open-data.github.io/schema/#accessLevel</secsys>
			<secclass>public</secclass>
			<sechandl>Standard Technical Controls</sechandl>
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		<ptcontac>
			<cntinfo>
				<cntperp>
					<cntorg>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation-Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards</cntorg>
					<cntper>Brian Stitt</cntper>
				</cntperp>
				<cntpos>EDG Steward</cntpos>
				<cntaddr>
					<addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype>
					<address>109 T.W. Alexander Drive</address>
					<city>Research Triangle Park</city>
					<state>NC</state>
					<postal>27709</postal>
				</cntaddr>
				<cntvoice>919-541-3757</cntvoice>
				<cntemail>stitt.brian@epa.gov</cntemail>
				<cntinst>https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa</cntinst>
			</cntinfo>
		</ptcontac>
	</idinfo>
	<dataqual>
		<logic>Tests for integrity have not been performed.</logic>
		<complete>Features represented have not been tested for completeness</complete>
		<posacc>
			<horizpa>
				<horizpar>Data were collected using methods that have unknown accuracy (EPA National Geospatial Data Policy [NGDP] Accuracy Tier 10). For more information, please see EPA's NGDP at http://epa.gov/geospatial/policies.html)</horizpar>
			</horizpa>
		</posacc>
		<lineage>
			<procstep>
				<procdate>20170420</procdate>
				<procdesc>Web service created.</procdesc>
				<proccont>
					<cntinfo>
						<cntorgp>
							<cntorg>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation-Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards</cntorg>
							<cntper>Brian Stitt</cntper>
						</cntorgp>
						<cntpos>EDG Steward</cntpos>
						<cntaddr>
							<addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype>
							<address>109 T.W. Alexander Drive</address>
							<city>Research Triangle Park</city>
							<state>NC</state>
							<postal>27709</postal>
						</cntaddr>
						<cntvoice>919-541-3757</cntvoice>
						<cntemail>stitt.brian@epa.gov</cntemail>
						<cntinst>https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa</cntinst>
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		<distliab>https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html</distliab>
		<resdesc>Live Data and Maps</resdesc>
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			<cntinfo>
				<cntorgp>
					<cntorg>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation-Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards</cntorg>
					<cntper>Brian Stitt</cntper>
				</cntorgp>
				<cntpos>EDG Steward</cntpos>
				<cntaddr>
					<addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype>
					<address>109 T.W. Alexander Drive</address>
					<city>Research Triangle Park</city>
					<state>NC</state>
					<postal>27709</postal>
				</cntaddr>
				<cntvoice>919-541-3757</cntvoice>
				<cntemail>stitt.brian@epa.gov</cntemail>
				<cntinst>https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa</cntinst>
			</cntinfo>
		</distrib>
	</distinfo>
	<metainfo>
		<metd>20240924</metd>
		<metfrd>20280924</metfrd>
		<metstdn>FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata</metstdn>
		<metstdv>FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
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			<cntinfo>
				<cntorgp>
					<cntorg>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation-Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards</cntorg>
					<cntper>Brian Stitt</cntper>
				</cntorgp>
				<cntpos>EDG Steward</cntpos>
				<cntaddr>
					<addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype>
					<address>109 T.W. Alexander Drive</address>
					<city>Research Triangle Park</city>
					<state>NC</state>
					<postal>27709</postal>
				</cntaddr>
				<cntvoice>919-541-3757</cntvoice>
				<cntemail>stitt.brian@epa.gov</cntemail>
				<cntinst>https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa</cntinst>
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