APEX—A Training Exercise for Air Pollution Control Officers

Abstract

All of the problems and politics, pride and passions of administering the public sector and operating within the private sector of a metropolitan area not unlike Lansing, Mich., are compressed into hours in an air pollution control exercise developed for NAPCA by the Air Pollution Control Institute, University of Southern California. Recently, a group at Research Triangle Park, N. C, played through several cycles of the game and in making role decisions experienced the situations described in the following formal report: