<div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12pt">This vacancy is a re-posting for a position at the US EPA that was posted several weeks ago. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">There was a clerical error in several job postings that required EPA to repost the positions. Below is the first
of those positions to get reposted. This position is located in the Ambient Air Monitoring Group in the Air Quality Analysis Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
The new closing date for this posting is Sept 17</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size:12pt">. Additional postings may follow.</span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please see the vacancy at: </span><a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/807806000" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">https://www.usajobs.gov/job/807806000</a></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Title:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Series and Grade Announced:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">GS-1301/801/12</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Announcement#</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">EPA-LA-ODH-2024-0027</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Location of Position:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Position Type:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Opening Date:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">09/04/2024
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Closing Date:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Number of Vacancies:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Position Risk Designation:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">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></span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">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;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">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;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">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;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">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;</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">Improving the credibility and transparency of our technical assessments by infusing and demonstrating quality throughout
our analytical systems, methods and data; and</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222"><br>
<span style="background:white">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.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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