| (a) Visible emission evaluator training providers must:
(1) ensure that training meets the general and delivery
standards approved by the executive director;
(2) follow the criteria and procedures of Method 9
as established by United States Environmental Protection Agency;
(3) provide a six to eight hour mandatory lecture session
for first time students, and those students desiring to attend the
lecture session again as a refresher;
(4) present the lecture session to the new students
prior to any field training or testing;
(5) present the lecture session in a setting that is
conducive to learning;
(6) use visual aids and handouts to clarify topics
that are taught; and
(7) provide one proctor for 24 attendees or less, two
proctors for 25 to 100 attendees, and an additional proctor for every
50 attendees over 100.
(b) Visible emission evaluator training shall include,
but is not limited to, the following topics:
(1) opacity history to include Ringlemann equivalency;
(2) court cases that uphold opacity readings and procedures;
(3) applicability of Federal and State Method 9 opacity
regulations;
(4) Federal and State New Source Performance Standards;
(5) Federal and State New Source Review program;
(6) State operating permits;
(7) State Implementation Plans;
(8) scientific principles of opacity;
(9) methodology of reading visible emissions, to include,
but not limited to:
(A) position of sun;
(B) multiple stacks;
(C) water vapor plumes;
(D) slant angle correction;
(E) "red sky" concerns;
(F) not staring at plume;
(G) meteorology;
(H) wind direction and speed; and
(I) contrasting background;
(10) applicability and uses of Method 22, 203A, 203B,
and 203C;
(11) proper documentation methods using the various
field forms; and
(12) field testing instructions.
(c) The training topics may be modified at the discretion
of the executive director.
(d) The training provider will issue a certificate
of completion to attendees of the lecture session which will contain
the training provider's name, title of course (visible emission evaluator
course classroom lecture), student's name, location of lecture, and
date of lecture.
(e) The training provider shall develop and submit
for executive director approval an exit questionnaire that shall be
administered to the attendees upon completion of the lecture. This
questionnaire is for determining the effectiveness of the training
session and the ability of the instructor to convey the necessary
information. The completed questionnaires shall be kept on file for
a minimum of three years and be made available to the agency upon
request.
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