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<p style="margin-top:0in;background:white" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please see the following two vacancy announcements for positions at the US EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Assessment
Division located in Research Triangle Park, NC:<br>
-<a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/806123500" target="_blank">USAJOBS - Job Announcement</a><br>
-<a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/806129500" target="_blank">USAJOBS - Job Announcement</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Title</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">: Physical Scientist/Environmental Engineer<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Series and Grade Announced</span></strong>:GS-1301-819<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Promotional Potential</span></strong>: GS-13<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Announcement#</span></strong> EPA-LA-ODH-2024-0021 and EPA-LA-ODH-2024-0022<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Location of Position</span></strong>: Durham, NC<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Position Type</span></strong>: Permanent<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Opening Date</span></strong>: 8/26/2024<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Closing Date</span></strong>: 8/30/2024<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Number of Vacancies</span></strong>: many<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Position Risk Designation</span></strong>: Moderate Risk<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Air Quality Assessment Division functional statement:</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Air Quality Assessment Division (AQAD) drives sound air quality management policy, decision making and accountability assessment through the strategic application of technical and
analytical leadership promoted through open collaboration with other OAQPS divisions, other OAR offices, ORD, other Federal agencies, State and local agencies, Tribes, and outside groups. The AQAD leads by promoting multi-pollutant approaches to air quality
management through comprehensive integrated evaluations of multiple sectors, spatial scales, and pollutants, meteorology, climate, and the implications of interactions among them; and by advancing the state of the art in emissions, modeling, ambient and source
measurements, and data analysis techniques. Division areas of emphasis include:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Continually improving the assessment of emissions, ambient data, and air quality modeling to enhance the design, implementation and evaluation of air
quality management programs and related control strategies;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Producing timely and meaningful assessments of pollutant trends and impacts, providing the public with clear and transparent information that can be effectively
used to help them better understand the air quality in their area, how it can affect their health, and how changes in their activities can reduce emissions and improve air quality;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Establishing and promoting a framework for accountability by developing and applying methods and definitive data bases for evaluating air quality management
programs to determine progress, need for mid-course corrections and achievement of environmental goals, including attainment of national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and other air quality benchmarks;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Creating value-added predictive tools and analyses, improving both the quality of analytical results and the timeliness of critically-needed information
for regulatory and policy decision making;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Improving the credibility and transparency of our technical assessments by infusing and demonstrating quality throughout our analytical systems, methods
and data; and<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Strengthening the basis for air rules and policies across OAR by leading technical collaboration across OAQPS, OAR, EPA, and other Federal agencies (e.g.,
NOAA, NASA and CDC) and promoting multi-pollutant, multi-media solutions to environmental issues.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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