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Revision as of 05:22, 16 November 2018
Overview
The National Air Pollution Training Program Collaborative was formed to review and develop training materials for the National Air Pollution Training Program (the Training Program). One component of this Training Program is to support the training of federal, state, local, and tribal (SLT) air agency staff by maintaining a library of course materials on different subjects related to air pollution management. A collaborative effort between federal, regional, and state air program staff is needed to continually review the course materials and to evaluate whether the materials are meeting the training needs of the SLT air programs.
Scope
The scope of this Collaborative is to review all Training Program course materials on a regular schedule and facilitate updates to the materials, as needed. In addition to reviewing the materials for updates, there are many courses in the Training Program curriculum that are underutilized. The Collaborative will review the courses in the curriculum and recommend removing and/or consolidating courses in order to streamline the task of managing the course materials. Finally, the Collaborative will identify courses materials that may be missing from the curriculum and develop recommendations for creating entire new courses.
Expertise Teams
The task of reviewing the hundreds of courses currently in the Training Program will be managed by organizing the Collaborative around expertise teams. Each team will be charged with reviewing and maintaining the materials for different subject matter areas. Team membership will include two co-leads. One co-lead will be from EPA, the other will be from a state agency or an MJO. The co-leads must be experts in the subject matter area and be well-connected in the national community for that area. The co-leads will recruit additional team members, as needed, to support the course material review. The teams will initially meet monthly in order to quickly develop priorities and recommendations for improvements of the course materials. This wiki will be used to document the progress of the work within each team.
The expertise teams will work independently and in parallel on reviewing the course materials in their subject area in pursuit of creating recommendations and priorities for how to improve the materials within their domain. A coordination committee will provide logistical support and facilitation to the expertise teams as they move toward the goal of fully updated course materials to support the training demands of state/local/tribal air agencies.
Subject Matter Areas
The course materials are divided into the following subject matter areas, with several courses included in each area.
- Permitting
- Monitoring
- Inspections
- Source Monitoring
- Hazardous Air Pollutants
- Modeling
- Planning
- Emissions Inventories
- Special/Industrial Categories
