;Contents: Introduction (About the EMPACT Program, About the AirBeat Project, About This Handbook, For More Information); How to use this handbook; About ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter (About Ozone, About Fine Particulate Matter, About Black Carbon, National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone and Particulate Matter, Existing Monitoring Programs for Ozone and Particulate Matter, The Air Quality Index-A Tool for Reporting Air Quality Information, For More Information); Beginning the program (Program Structure: Overview of a Community-Based Air Pollution Monitoring and Outreach Program, Selecting Program Partners, Identifying Potentially Impacted Communities, Getting To Know the Community, Estimating Program Costs); Monitoring (Overview of AirBeat's Monitoring Efforts, Key Steps in Designing and Implementing a Monitoring System, For More Information); Data management (Introduction to Data Management, Overview of AirBeat's Data Management Efforts, Hardware Components Used to Operate the Data Management Center, Software Components Used to Operate the Data Management Center, Creating the AirBeat Web Site, Creating the Telephone Hotline); Education and Outreach ( Developing an Outreach Plan, Education and Outreach Tools, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Outreach Efforts); Appendices.