8 Broadcaster Press September 12, 2017 www.broadcasteronline.com Smoke Impacting South Dakota Air Quality Meteorological conditions are causing smoke from fires in several western states and Canada to impact air quality in South Dakota. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recommends you visit South Dakota’s Real Time Air Quality Index map at http://denr.sd.gov/des/ aq/aarealtime.aspx to see if smoke is currently impacting your area. Regional air quality data is available at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency site at www. airnow.gov. Western South Dakota was impacted Labor Day weekend when winds pushed smoke from the fires east to South Dakota. Air quality monitoring sites in Rapid City, Wind Cave and the Badlands indicated the 24-hour air quality standard of 35 micrograms per cubic meter was exceeded several times from Friday to Sunday. The highest reading was 71.4 micrograms per cubic meter on Sunday at Wind Cave. Strong winds on Monday moved the heavy smoke conditions out of the state. The department says air quality conditions will vary until the fires can be put out and encourages the public to visit the websites to determine if air quality in your area is reaching unhealthy levels. Everyone may experience some effects during unhealthy levels. Sensitive groups generally include children, older adults and people with lung diseases. South Dakotan Elected to Lead National Association of State Technology Directors PIERRE, S.D. - Pat Snow of the South Dakota Bureau of program chair for the past year and through the coming Information and Telecommunications (BIT) was elected year will lead the Executive Board which includes reprepresident of the64 sentatives from Ohio, Texas, and Massachusetts. 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Sudoku #1 tor of telecommunications and has worked for the bureau “It is a great honor to lead NASTD for the coming year,” since 1996. said Snow. “Technology is a great enabler for state govern9 3 9 “Pat is willing to share his vision and expertise with ments and NASTD is an exceptional resource for technology those wishing to utilize technology services to improve peers to share6 5 knowledge and experiences.” 9 4 2 2 3 state government operations; this willingness to collaboThroughout his career at BIT, Snow also served as rate and offer thoughtful, reasoned, cost3 6 1 7 effective solutions data center architect, manager of endpoint services and 8 4 meshes well with the NASTD mission to build partnerships manager of network technologies. According to Zolnowsky, 4 5 1 among states5 utilize technology to improve1 delivery to 2 the Snow’s expertise has widely impacted state government, and efficiency of government services,” said BIT CommisK-12 and higher education technology services. 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