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WESTAR Staff Reports. 2014 Spring Business Meeting Boise, Idaho. Training Program. Jeff Gabler. Training Program. FY2014 Activities: ~26 Courses Offered ~51 Training Days ~650 Students Trained ~1250 Student Training Days. FY2013 Activities: 28 Courses Offered - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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2014 Spring Business MeetingBoise, Idaho
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Jeff Gabler
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FY2013 Activities:
•28 Courses Offered•51 Training Days•814 Students Trained•1516 Student Training Days
FY2014 Activities:
•~26 Courses Offered•~51 Training Days•~650 Students Trained•~1250 Student Training Days
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Summary of FY2014 Activities:
•APTI-Learn Committee: • Bi-Weekly Hour Long Conference Calls• Goal is to Improvement Overall Experience by:
• Increasing Functionality• Improve Appearance
• By Identifying:• Updates/Enhancements/Maintenance• Workable & Resource-wise Solutions
• Redesigned• Home Page• Curriculum Page• Numerous Small Changes
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Summary of FY2014 Activities•National Training Strategy Workgroup:
• Review/Prioritize Long-Term Issues• Identify Potential Opportunities & Solutions• Identify Cooperative Working Opportunities
•NACAA’s Joint Training Committee
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http://review.em-assist.com/courses/epa/lms_home/plan/review/03/index.html
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Bob Lebens
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•Planning
•Technical
•Ad hoc Work Groups•Regional Haze 2018 Work Group•Residential Wood Heating NSPS•Modeling Platform
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• Ongoing Committee Support•Agenda development•Recruit new members/leaders
•Ad Hoc Work Group Support•Modeling Platform•SO2 Data Requirements Rule
•IMPROVE budget
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Tom Moore
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• Planning and Technical Committees’ support• Regional Haze “Plan to Plan” • Comments to EPA on 2011/2018 modeling platforms
• Ad hoc activities• Future CAA §111d existing power plant regulations – panel participant on Regional Haze planning experience and O&G methane leakage at Western Interstate Energy Board meetings
• Administrative• Prepared SoW and budgets for new Funding Opportunities with:
•BLM MT-Dakotas, for completion of O&G emissions inventories•BLM national air program for first phase of Drill Rig 1-Hour NO2 Study•NPS for 3-State Study work (Oct. 14 through Sept. 17)•NASA, for competitive proposal to test/implement satellite data in Western Modeling Framework for regional analysis/planning
• Re-started Fire Sciences Program project & 3-State Study project
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• Board and administrative activities • Board call and planning for May 29th meeting • WESTAR Council calls• Outreach with Tribes, Local Air Agencies, and Federal WRAP member agencies • Completed WGA reporting to close projects
• WRAP Technical Steering Committee• 2014-18 Integrated Workplan development
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• Coordination, development , implementation
• w/ OAQPS on Fire/Ozone Exceptional Events technical tools
• w/ CAMD on Electrical Generating Units – Integrated Planning Model
• Invited speaker at Central/Midwestern States’ Technical Workshop
• w/ USFS on integration of FETS & USFS fire activity/emissions systems
• w/ NPS and other 3-State Air Quality Study cooperators on developing future Western Modeling Framework & Data Warehouse for regional air quality analysis and planning
• Invited participant in NASA Air Quality proposal review panel
• w/ NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) – Jan. meeting
• Invited speaker at EPA R10 Smoke Management annual meeting
• w/ participants in July-August 2014 FRAPPE and DiscoverAQ studies