This glossary presents definitions and explanations of terms
that you may encounter in the system. It covers acronyms and
abbreviations as well as full terms for which such information adds to
the usability of the system.
This system, which supports the Ohio EPA Division of Air
Pollution Control and its Regulated Community Users in managing Air
Pollution Control permits and emissions reporting. The system provides
a web interface for RCUs (via the Ohio
EPA e-Business Center) to input information and manage the permit
generation and tracking processes.
The top section of every screen in the Air Services system.
This section always contains the
Ohio EPA logo, a brief welcome message identifying the person who is
logged in to that screen,
and three common hyperlinks that are available on every screen to make
it easy for you to get to
locations within the website that you may commonly wish to visit.
Division of Air Pollution Control.
The division of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that manages
applications for, produces and issues permits with respect to emissions
and also monitors compliance on the basis of reports submitted by
RCUs on behalf of their
facilities.
The name used in this system for a table of data, often the
result of a search
you execute from a search window. These tables have special
cabailities, such as
paging,
sorting,
and also provide access to
operations that create a printable view of the data or export
the data to Excel.
District Office/Local Area Agency.
The offices from which personnel provide air services to
RCU.
These offices may be organizationally housed within the Ohio EPA (DOs)
or may be independent of the agency (LAAs). Each DO/LAA is responsible
for RCUs located in their specified region; in total, the DO/LAAs
"cover" the entire state.
Hyperlinks are items on a screen that, when clicked, take
you to another, presumably related, screen. Hyperlinks normally appear
as underlined words or sets of words, where the words give an
indication of the target or destination to which you are taken when you
select them. The color
and other behavior of hyperlinks depends upon the browser you are using
to access the web pages.
This term refers to the bullet list of links that appears at the left of
some of the screens, most notably the Air Services System tab and the Facility tab.
These items differ
depending upon which tab is selected. They may not appear at all if a tab does not
have lower-level links associated with it. The links give you access to the
functionality that
the system provides under each tab on which such a menu appears.
This term describes the capability that the system provides
to control which rows in a
datagrid
you can see on the screen at any point in time. Initially, a table
shows the first set of rows.
If the table doesn't have more rows, then you will not see the paging
controls. However when a table of data is much longer than you can see
on a single screen, the system provides controls you can
use to move among the 'pages' of data in the table. The number of rows
that a datagrid shows on
a single screen
is also the increment by which it pages.
Regulated Community User.
The owners, operators and/or other delegated users of the Air Services
System who are associated with facilities
that have a relationship with DAPC with respect to permits for air
emissions and the enforcement thereof.
This term describes the capability that the system provides
to sort the rows in a datagrid in either ascending or
descending order by any column
in the data. Initially, a table appears with a default sort order ---
most often ascending
by the numerical identifier for the objects represented by the data.
However, you can click on any
column header to sort by the data values in that column. The system
indicates the direction of the
sort with an up (for ascending) or down (for descending) arrow in the
column header.
