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Indoor Air Quality Sites:

• U.S. EPA REGION 10 - THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST INDOOR AIR QUALITY CONTACT LIST:
  This website provides contact information for the US EPA Region 10 IAQ offices and programs.
  www.epa.gov/iaq/states/epa_region10.html
  
  
• ALASKA INCORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY CONSULTANTS (EHS)- ALASKA INDOOR AIR QUALITY:
  This .pdf file explains the reasons there are IAQ complaints and possible sources of pollutants. The EHS-Alaska provides indoor air quality surveys, pollutant source identification, and work site remediation.
  www.ehs-alaska.com/newsletters/july_3_1998_vol6.pdf
  
  
• EPA Region 10- Indoor Air Quality Media Resources:
  This website is a listing of Air Quality videos and other audio visual programs the Public Environmental Resource Center offers on loan to anyone in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon or Washington.
  http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/extaff.nsf/0/e795f4fb1651910a8825657c006f8805?OpenDocument
  
  
• USEPA Alaska's Environment Links:
  Here you will find some of the more common links to information about the environment in Alaska. This is not an all-inclusive list of information on the State of Alaska. Links include the following topics: Priority Geographic Areas, EPA Arctic Program, Air Quality, Water Quality, Superfund, State Agencies and Superfund Sites, Alaska Maps (GIS Map Library), State of Alaska Environmental Links and Federal Environmental Links.
  http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/Homepage.NSF/webpage/Alaska's+Environment?opendocument
  
  
• IAQ Tools for Schools 2002 Award Winners 2002 Excellence Awards and 2002 Special Achievement Awards:
  The Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Excellence Award is EPA's most prestigious indoor air quality award, presented only to schools and school districts that show exceptional commitment and achievement in improving children's health and indoor air quality.
  www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/iaqtfsawards.html

• Hands-on Indoor Air Quality Training For Tribal Professionals:
  About the Tribal Training Program
  The American Lung Association Health House program is training Native American housing directors, environmental professionals and public health professionals how to build new homes and remediate existing homes on tribal lands according to the stringent Health House builder guidelines, recognized as some of the industry's toughest and best for health indoor air quality, energy efficiency and sustainability.
  
  Course Descriptions
  
  • Investigating Indoor Air Quality Problems in Tribal Homes
    Participants will learn how buildings perform as a system to establish an effective approach for diagnosis.
    
  • Remediation of Indoor Air Quality Problems in Tribal Homes
    Participants will learn a wide range of effective, affordable, and efficient remediation strategies to address the major IAQ-related problems of moisture and mold, combustion gases, leaky buildings, inadequate ventilation, particulate control, and radon.
    Website: www.healthhouse.org/tribaltraining/index.asp
  
  
  
• Cooperative Extension Service-Alaska Energy and Housing Resources:
  Cooperative Extension Service is an outreach educational delivery system supported by a partnership between the US Department of Agriculture and the University of Alaska Fairbanks and College of Rural Alaska. This website provides informational links to Indoor Air Quality, Polar Living, Manuals, Energy Links, Housing links, Radon links, Alaska Weather and permafrost.
  www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/faculty/seifert/resources.html
  
  
• Alaska Building Science Network (ABSN)-Knowledge You Can Build On:
  The Alaska Building Science Network (ABSN) is a member supported association of individuals, businesses, and organizations dedicated to promoting energy efficiency as an essential component of durable, safe and affordable housing in Alaska. This website provides general links to building science, energy efficiency, Alternative Energy, Indoor Air Quality and sustainability.
  www.absn.com/index.cfm
  
  
• Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC)-Proposal Forms:
  The Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) is an industry based, non-profit corporation created to facilitate the development, use, and testing of energy efficient, durable, healthy, and cost effective building technologies for Alaska and the world's cold climate regions.
  www.cchrc.org/forms.html
  
  
• ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION (EEBA)- IAQ AND VENTILATION:>
  The following course is available through the EEBA Institute. This website provides the course goals, course outline, description of the course, course points, and instructor information.
  www.eeba.org/institute/courses/IAQ_and_Ventilation.htm
  
  
• Council for Educational Facility Planners-EPA Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS) 2002 Award Winners:
  This organization is the advocate for excellence in student learning environments. Research has proven that there is an integral relationship between the quality of educational facilities and the level of student achievement.
  www.cefpi.org/enews/epawinners.pdf
  
  
• AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION HEALTH HOUSE RESOURCES:
  The Health House® project is a national education program created by the American Lung Association of Minnesota to raise the standards for better indoor environments. This website provides links to various resources that pertain to having a healthy home.
  www.healthhouse.org/links.asp
  
  
• The Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes Program- Training and Reference Manual:
  The Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes Program was developed to provide basic but comprehensive information to consumers on how to get a handle on indoor air quality (IAQ) in their homes. The goal of the Program is to educate consumers about sources, health risks, and control measures related to common residential indoor air problems and to help consumers reduce their health risks from these problems. This website provides the Training manual and Reference manual. The revised manual also includes three new instructional modules dealing with: Building Science and Indoor Air Quality, Secondhand Smoke and Asthma.
  www.montana.edu/wwwcxair/notebook.html
  
  
• Carbon Monoxide (CO), the Silent Killer:
  This website provides a Fact sheet on Carbon Monoxide.
  www.hse.gov.uk/gas/domestic/co.htm
  
  
• State of Alaska Epidemiology -Bulletin Ozone Generators - Warning - Not For Occupied Spaces:
  Not all indoor air cleaning devices are alike, and certain types could cause health problems. Machines that purposefully produce ozone as an indoor air cleansing agent are currently on the market for residential use - these products should be avoided.
  www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/b1997_36.htm

• Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation-Indoor Air Pollutants:
  This website contains a list sources of Air pollutants in homes and buildings. The website also contain links that pertain to Indoor Air Quality.
  www.state.ak.us/dec/air/anpms/as/id_aq/idaqhome.htm
  
  
• Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation-Air Toxics Information and Links:
  The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has compiled a list of web links on the following topics: General Air Quality, Indoor Air Quality, Vehicle Emissions, Environmental Toxicology and Risk, and Industry Hygiene.
  www.state.ak.us/dec/air/anpms/as/toxics/toxhome.htm