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Air Quality System (AQS) Fast Track

AQS Fast Track

ITEP has assembled sequence of 14 short videos that provide targeted, bare-bones demonstrations of the basics of AQS. These are not designed to be a comprehensive training on all the functions of AQS, but instead provide demonstrations on those functions that are used routinely, including:

  • Obtaining AQS and ENSC login credentials
  • Accessing AQS
  • Downloading any data in AQS, including data from any other site nationally
  • Making sense of downloaded data by importing into MS Excel
  • Checking AQS for site and monitor codes that may already exist
  • Downloading existing site and monitor codes for yours or any sites
  • Creating a site in AQS
  • Creating a monitor in AQS
  • Uploading “raw” (measurement value) data
  • Uploading QC data
  • Using the Maintain and Correct forms to edit your data and site/monitor information
  • AQS Reports and which ones you should be using
  • Data certification

I need this training now because uploading data to AQS is in my current workplan. What do I do?

BEGIN with the videos at:

If you are unable to access these videos due to bandwidth or other restrictions, please contact Melinda Ronca-Battista for a complimentary DVD.

It may take you a few days to obtain your AQS login credentials, and this process is explained in the 1st video. The 2nd video demonstrates how to access the best AQS user’s guide, which is relatively new and will answer many of your questions. Continue using the videos as a rough guide to the most commonly asked questions. The videos are ordered so that each video demonstrates one step of the process in short segments, so that you can watch a video, conduct the process, then move on to the next video, etc.

The videos are not a comprehensive guide to all the aspects of AQS, but instead cover short, targeted activities that most people must do as part of their exciting AQS experience. The videos do guide you through collecting the information you need to gather about your site and monitors in order to set up the AQS database so that you can upload data, how to check to see what information AQS already has about your sites and monitors, and how to conduct most commonly-encountered processes in AQS.

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Christopher Lee
Program Manager
Christopher.Lee@nau.edu

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Administrative Assistant, Sr.
Darlene.Santos@nau.edu

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Rebecca Stevens

Chair

Coeur d’Alene Tribe – Idaho

Program Manager/Restoration Coordinator
Working with the Tribe since: 2005

Rebecca is the Program Manager for the Tribe’s Natural Resources Department-Hazardous Waste Management Program. She also serves the role as the Restoration Coordinator with the Restoration Partnership. Rebecca has been working on water quality related issues for over 19 years. She represents the Tribe in the Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical Complex Superfund Site working with EPA while implementing their remedy for the Basin. She is also the Tribe’s Restoration Coordinator for the Restoration Partnership for which all Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) claims have been settled and on the ground restoration work has been underway since 2019. Rebecca continues to work with other Tribes on NRDA issues while coordinating with the US DOI, USDA, and the State of Idaho.

Rebecca is a proud member of the Tribal Waste and Response Steering Committee where she also serves on the Tribal Superfund Work Group and Advisory Council. Rebecca enjoys x-country skiing in the winter, summertime water sports, Frisbee golf, and spending time with her friends, family, and blue heeler. Rebecca is very honored to work for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and is proud to be a part of restoring natural resources in the Coeur d’Alene Basin.

Rebecca can be reached by e-mail at rstevens@cdatribe-nsn.gov.

National Tribal Forum on Air Quality

The National Tribal Forum on Air Quality (NTFAQ) aims to support tribal programs by fostering information-sharing and networking opportunities that are focused on building tribal capacity in air quality management. The event’s agenda is driven by tribal input and priorities, with a focus on increasing tribal engagement in air quality initiatives that are relevant to tribal communities across the nation.