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Background Information
Since January of 2002, the United States Environmental Protection Agency
and the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests have been working
together under a Memorandum of Understanding to improve air quality
management practices in India. As part of this effort, significant
training and field study activities have been undertaken in the City of
Pune, which has been chosen as the Air Quality Management Initiative
pilot city.
The USEPA has been working closely with a variety of Federal, state, and
local agencies, academic organizations, industry groups, and
non-government organizations on this project with support from the U.S.
Agency for International Development and the U.S.-Asia Environmental
Partnership (USAID/USAEP). Project activities feature work on air
quality monitoring, emissions inventory development, air quality
monitoring, and control strategy development. Emission inventories
provide a key foundation to support the planning and policy decisions
needed to improve air quality, public health, and quality of life.
The goal of this project is to work with key staff within India to
develop an emission inventory framework for the Pune region within
approximately 7 working days. Because of the short time frame, rough
assumptions and simplifications will be used for emission estimates and
the database development. However, at project completion, a complete
framework will be in place that can be progressively improved by local
Pune staff over the next 6 months. Committing ongoing staffing for this
6 month time period will be critical for collecting the necessary
information that will be needed to complete an inventory that will be
useful in future air quality management activities.
The
participants for the seven day workshop came from various walks of life,
bringing the diversified knowledge necessary for PREIS. The complete
list of the participants is given below.
List of participants
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