Metro 4/SESARM
Training Report
March 23, 2009
Metro 4/SESARM
Course Development
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FY 2008
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Worked with CARB to complete new
Enforcement Case Development and
Resolution
 Piloted
new course in Jacksonville FL
 30 attendees
Metro 4/SESARM
Workshop Development
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FY 2008
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Clean Air Act Enforcement Lessons
Lessons Learned Workshop
 Assisted
OECA and Region 4 in
development of outline and content
 Piloted in Atlanta, GA
 61 attendees plus 7 EPA presenters
Metro 4/SESARM
Course Update
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APTI 350 Asbestos NESHAP
Inspection and Safety
Course updated
 Two pilot presentations
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 September
2008 Tampa FL 33 attendees
 October 2008 Atlanta GA 30 attendees
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Third round of course materials
critique completed and under review
Metro 4/SESARM
Course Update
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Inspection and Safety Techniques
Extract useful components of existing
APTI 444 and old APTI 445 Baseline
Source Inspection Techniques course
 Update APTI 446 Inspection
Procedures and Safety
 Merge into a 3 ½ day course
 Pilot course Fall/Winter 2009
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2008 Program Manager
Workshops
2
air director workshops: 56, 82
 5 program technical program
workshops:
 asbestos
54
 monitoring 99
 training 14
 399
enforcement 46
 permitting 48
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total attendees
2008 Events/Attendance
 Hosted/facilitated/supported
 Florida
Monitoring Workshop - 57
 Florida Permiting/Compliance
Workshop - 105
 High priority violator workshop 37
 Total
attendees - 199
2008 Training
 26
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training courses
2 permitting
6 control of specific pollutants
2 enforcement
12 control of specific processes and
operations
3 general air pollution control principles
1 asbestos NESHAP
2008 Training Totals
 26
training courses
 55.5 course days
 2.13 average days per course
 820 students
 1,813 student days
2008 Training Statistics
 $125,225
course expenditures
$4,816 average cost per course
 $2,256 average cost per course day
 $153 average cost per student
 $69 average cost per student day
 $2,932/day total cost for APTI-bid
courses
 62% of course cost was instructor
fees
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2008 Student Origins
8 SESARM states – 610 (74%)
 17 Metro 4 locals – 177 (22%)
 EPA – 23 (3%)
 Other locals/states – 10 (1%)
 Tribes - 0
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2008 Student Job Titles
360 EIT/engineer (43.9%)
 359 Environmental/technical
(43.8%)
 81 Supervisor/manager (9.9%)
 20 Administrative (2.4%)
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2008 Student Work Areas
314 Permitting (38.3%)
 200 Inspections (24.4%)
 120 Enforcement (14.6%)
 46 Air Toxics (5.6%)
 44 Monitoring (5.4%)
 41 Technical Assistance (5.0%)
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2008 Student Work Areas
19 Asbestos (2.3%)
 17 Administrative (2.1%)
 13 Planning (1.6%)
 5 Public Education (0.6%)
 1 Regulation Development (0.1%)
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Factors Affecting
Gross Training Numbers
Number of agencies
 Number of staff per agency
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Factors Affecting
Training Participation
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Tenure of agency staff
Experience and expertise of staff
Agency budget restrictions (training/travel)
Agency workloads
Locations of courses presented
Scheduling/dates of courses
Degree of agency emphasis on training
Training expense reimbursement support
2009 Training Budget
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$252,152
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Course presentations - $156,971
Staffing support - $44,735
Course updates/development – $25,446
Local agencies travel - $17,000
State agencies travel - $8,000
2009 Training Courses
APTI 350 - 1
 APTI 418 – 1
 APTI 450 - 1
 CARB 100 – 4
 CARB 200 – 16 (four 1-day
courses at each location)
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More to be scheduled
2009 Training Courses
 Held
To-Date FFY 2009
 APTI
350 GA: 30
 APTI 450 FL: 39
 CARB 100 MS: 38
 CARB 100 SC: 29
 CARB 200 SC: 25-33