What are the security access rule differences between Agency and Screening Group?

• AQS "Screening Group" Security Access:
  • Under this model, Monitors are considered "owned" by a Screening Group (one and only one).
  • Users are assigned to one or more Screening Groups.
  • If a user is assigned a security role to a Screening Group that "owns" a monitor, then that user has access to modify both monitor metadata and raw data for the monitor.
  • Sites: If a user is assigned a security role to a Screening Group that "owns" a monitor at the site, then that user has access to modify the site metadata at the site.  The corollary to this is that if two Screening Groups each own a monitor at the site, then users for either screening group can modify the site metadata.
• AQS "Agency" Security Access:
  • Under this model each site and monitor has specific roles that are defined for the site or monitor and agencies assigned to perform these roles.  Where those roles are defined in §58.1, those are the definitions utilized by AQS.  Each user is assigned to one and only one agency on their user profile; this is typically their employer.
    • Site Agency Roles:
      • Owning Agency: This is the agency legally responsible or in control of the site where ambient air quality monitoring occurs.  Access:
        • Allows user to modify any metadata for the site
        • Create new monitors at the site
        • Create Site-Samplers at the site
      • Support Agency: This is a set of agencies that have been granted access to assist the owning agency in order to maintain the metadata for the site.  Access:
        • Allows user to modify any metadata for the site
        • Create new monitors at the site
        • Create Site-Samplers at the site
    • Monitor Agency Roles:
      • Monitoring Organization:  This is the agency responsible for operating the monitor at the site.  Access:
        • Allowed to modify any metadata for the monitor
        • Allowed to submit routine QA data (all QA types except PEP and NPAP)
      • Primary Quality Assurance Organization:  This is the agency responsible for the quality assurance of a set of monitors "for which the quality assessments can be pooled" (§58.1).  Access:
        • Allowed to submit routine QA data (All QA types except PEP and NPAP)
      • Reporting Organization:  The agency responsible for submitting ambient air concentration data (Raw Data) measured by the monitor.  Access:
        • Allowed to submit Raw Data for the monitor.
        • Allowed to submit routine QA data (All QA types except PEP and NPAP)
      • Certifying Agency:  This is the agency responsible for meeting the data certification requirements in accordance with §58.15 for a unique set of monitors.  Access:
        • Allowed to query the monitor on the AQS Certification form and indicate or update its certification status for a year.
      • Collecting Agency:  This is the agency responsible for collecting the samples (e.g. filters) from an intermittent method monitor-sampler.  It is metadata only (i.e. No access to data is granted).
      • Analyzing Agency:  This is the agency (laboratory) responsible for analyzing the samples from an intermittent method monitor-sampler.  it is metadata only.
      • Audit Agency:  For agencies that "self-implement" the PEP and NPAP independent audit programs, rather than the Region implementing these programs, this is the agency responsible for conducting independent audits of criteria pollutant monitors for the PEP and NPAP programs.  Access:
        • Allowed to submit PEP and NPAP transactions for the monitor.