Organization

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-019816",
  "term": "Organization",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The owner of the station, sample, and result information.\n\n2. A company, corporation, firm, enterprise, or institution, or part thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private, that has its own functions and administration. In the context of this Manual, an EPA organization is an office, region, national center or laboratory.\n\n3. The Organization of Federal Agencies varies slightly. However, they are generally hierarchical in the fashion Agency, Office, Division, Branch, and Individual or Program or Project. Home pages intended to serve the Agency itself (i.e. internal servers) are probably best arranged in this hierarchical fashion. Home pages intended to serve the public are probably better arranged by area of public interest (e.g., mission, initiatives, etc.) with Organization as merely one topic.\n\n4. A company, corporation, firm, enterprise, authority or institution, or part or combination thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private, that has its own functions and administration.\n\n5. Any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, business, company, corporation, college or university, government agency (includes Federal, State and local government entities), laboratory, or institution.\n\n6. An EPA organization is an office, region, national center, or laboratory. An external organization is a state, tribe, agency or other government entity, academia, company, corporation, firm, enterprise, or institution, or part thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private, that has its own functions and administration.",
  "subject": "Information management and systems",
  "see_also": [
    "Agency"
  ],
  "references": [
    "STORET Legacy Data Center Glossary",
    "Great Lakes: Quality Management Training - Quality Glossary; Quality Mgmt: Quality Glossary",
    "Web Guide Glossary",
    "Safety, Health, and Environmental Management System Terms and Definitions",
    "40 CFR 195.2",
    "Environmental Information Quality Procedure Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/organization/"
}