DOE EH-31 DQO/DQA Training
Course Evaluations and Commendations
Evaluation from Michael
S. Henebry, Quality Assurance Officer, Bureau of Water, Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency
To: Karen Nelson
Training and Certification Unit
Bureau of Land
217-558-4355
From Mike Henebry
12/17/03 01:06PM
Karen:
Since you are in
charge of arranging training in BOL, I decided to pass on this e-mail
to you. Sebastian Tindall, the course instructor, called me today and
wanted to know if Illinois was interested in him coming to Springfield
to teach this material. He works for Bechtel and the Department of Energy.
He has been contracted by USEPA to teach their staff DQO principles
contained in USEPA Guidance that no one in USEPA seems to understand.
He is possibly the best instructor that I have had for any course that
I have taken in college, at the IEPA or elsewhere.
John Lesnak from
our Des Plaines office and I took his 3-Day DQO course, "Managing
Uncertainty and Systematic Planning for Environmental Decision-Making"
last month. I can say without qualification that this was probably the
best taught and potentially the most directly applicable training that
I have ever taken. I had been exposed to the DQO process several times
before, but have really never understood some aspects of it - particularly
the statistical concepts such as Type I (alpha) and Type II (Beta) errors
and the "gray area" in making environmental decisions. The
only downside for me (being in BOW) is that the course was geared entirely
to the systematic planning and evaluation of studies of contaminated
land sites. One of my comments on the post-training IEPA Training Agreement
form were that every project manager in BOL should have the opportunity
to take this course.
I have materials
from the course that I would be happy to share with you, although all
course materials also are available on the web site. This course is
a real "eye-opener". It is difficult to describe the overall
quality and applicability of the course, but feel free to contact me
and I will try.
The downside is
the cost: he charges $11-12 K for up to 60-80 participants (and there
are quite a lot of hands-on exercises that help make the points in the
course). However, the course is so useful for really understanding basic
DQO concepts, including the statistical aspects, that staff from other
Bureaus could benefit (and share the costs). The course could also be
a "bean count" for QA-related training that we arranged outside
of training by Region 5 QA staff (which Region 5 QA staff see as one
of our deficiencies).
Michael S. Henebry
Quality Assurance Officer
Bureau of Water
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Phone: ( 217)785-3944
E-mail: mike.henebry@epa.state.il.us
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