Transcript ITEP Project Report Tribal Data Development Working Group Meeting Lapwai, ID

ITEP Project Report
Tribal Data Development Working
Group Meeting
Lapwai, ID
July 26-27, 2006
Presented by: Jenifer Pond, Tech Specialist
TEISS Fire Calculator
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TDDWG approved adding WY fire calculator to
TEISS
Lakes has completed testing on the fire
calculator
Fire calculator and release documentation will be
added to the latest version of TEISS to be
released: July 11, 2006
ITEP staff will test the fire calculator and provide
comments to Lakes
TEISS Training Update
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ITEP received funds from OAQPS to
develop a TEISS online WebCourse
The first offering of the online TEISS Web
course was held June 5-16, 2006
There were 6 participants for the June
training
The next scheduled WebCourse offering is
September 11-22, 2006
TEISS Training Update cont.
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https://www4.nau.edu/itep/trainings/teiss/
index.asp
Username: tstudent
Password: teiss06
TEISS Training Summary
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Including the upcoming March TEISS Training:
72 People from WRAP Tribes have been trained
in the 3-day workshop, Adv TEISS sessions and
online training course
41 WRAP Tribes have been trained to use TEISS
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Common reasons for more than 1 person from a tribe
taking workshop
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More than 1 person will work on the EI
Turnover of tribal staff
Only 1 tribe has sent staff to repeat the workshop
(person was at very first workshop in April 2004 (using
v1.2) starting EI in spring 2006 (using v1.8).
Point Source Project Update
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Received final reports from ERG 2/21/06.
ITEP prepared TEISS projects to send to
participating tribes
ITEP mailed TEISS projects, a cover letter
and the final reports to the participating
Tribes April 18, 2006
Tribal EI Reconciliation
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Reconciliation call was held June 22, 2006
Participants included Nez Perce Tribe, ID Dept of
Environmental Quality and ITEP staff
No tribal/state data overlap has occurred in the
EDMS however, NPT would like to have mobile
source data displayed for the reservation in the
EDMS
If mobile source data is not currently displayed
for NPT IDEQ will work with the tribe to allocate
county level emissions to reservation level
Tribal EI Reconciliation cont.
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Next scheduled EI reconciliation call is set
for July 18 between Ft. Belknap and
Montana Dept of Environmental Quality