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1 Introduction
Pages 12-14

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... A subgroup of the committee also met with EMAPSurface Waters personnel in August 1992 to discuss detailed aspects of EMAP-Surface Waters, and a brief document on the stream survey was supplied to the committee shortly before this report was completed. In addition, a conference call between severe' committee members and EMAP officials was held in May 1994to discuss the stream pilot study.
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... According to the EMAP-Surface Waters Monitoring and Research Strategy - Fisca/ Year 7991, the EMAP-Surface Waters Design Strategy has the following characteristics that together allow "estimation, with known confidence, of indicators of the ecological condition of regional surface water populations: · Explicit definition of surface water target populations and their sampling units, and identification of an explicit frame for listing or otherwise identifying all the potential sampling units within each target population. · Probability sample site selection from the population frame.
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... These program-wide issues fall into three major classes: assessment end points, indicators, and design. Additionally, as part of the committee's task, this report comments on the Lakes Pilot Project, early information available on the streams program, and on cooperation and coordination with other groups within EMAP as well as other agencies.
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