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Setting Email Preferences
ACRES can automatically generate email reminders and notifications, depending on how you set your
email preferences on your ACRES user account. Personalizing the settings can be very useful for
obtaining notification when you're assigned a new work package, when your work packages have been
approved, or even when your submitted work packages have been in the same status for more than a
number of days that YOU specify. ACRES also lets you choose how often you receive the emails. As
long as you are an active ACRES user, you may change your email notification selections at any time.
1. Open your Internet browser to the following URL: https://cfext.epa.gov/acres/index.cfm.
Enter the User Name and Password you set during the EPA registration process, and click the "Log
In" button. The ACRES Home page will display.
2. From your ACRES Home screen, click "My Preferences" in the top right corner or "Update My Email
Preferences" under Quick Links to the left.
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ACRES Online Training
Online training classes are offered to ACRES users each month, for both beginners and for more experienced users. The winter schedule features:
¦	"Getting Started" - a class providing instruction to new users on submitting property data (approx. 60 minutes). Offered Tuesday, March 12th (2 pm
Eastern).
¦	"The Next Level" - a class providing training to Assessment, RLF, Cleanup, and Section 128(a) Recipients that are familiar with using ACRES. It
trains on how to make ACRES work for you and your property scenarios and also provides answers to some commonly asked questions (approx. 90
minutes). Offered Tuesday, February 12th (2 pm Eastern).
For the full training schedule go here.
What's New?
A new version of ACRES (v. 4.01.110) was released Tuesday, January 8,2013. A summary of the changes that have been made to the system can be
found in the Release Motes	.
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Open Work Packages
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Open Work Packages
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3. Confirm the email address for which you are setting preferences. This is the address at which you
will receive ACRES notifications. To change this email address, click "Change," and enter the new
email address.
Note: Changing the email address in My Preferences will change the contact email address
associated with your ACRES account.
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b.	If a work package I am editing has been in the same status for more than XX days - this will
notify you if you have started a work package, but have not yet submitted the work package to
EPA for Regional Review. This can serve as a reminder tool, and you can select the number of
days at which to receive the reminder. The number of days is set at 30 as a default. You can
enter a minimum of one day or a maximum of 120 days.
c.	If a work package I submitted has been approved - this will notify you when a work package
you submitted has been approved at National Program Review, the final step in the workflow.
The data will be final in ACRES the day after the work package is approved at National Program
Review. This also lets you know that you can start a new work package for that same property.
d.	A quarterly email with statuses and last updated dates for my properties - this will provide you
with a quarterly summary of the current status and last updated date for all the properties with
which your account is associated.
e.	Release notes - this will notify you of any updates to ACRES and the features that were
changed or added.
6. Select how often you would like to receive the notifications by clicking the appropriate option:
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You will receive an email when the following occurs:
If a work package I submitted has been returned for clarification
If a work package I am editing has been in the same status for more than 30 days
You may elect to receive an email when the following occurs:
E~ If I am assigned a new cooperative agreement or work package
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E~ If a work package I submitted has been approved
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Please send my email:
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The following options are available:
a.	Whenever my selections above occur
b.	In a daily summary email
c.	In a weekly summary email
d.	In a monthly summary email
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7. In order to activate your selections, click the "Save My Preferences" button at the bottom of the
screen. If you decide not to keep your changes, click "Cancel Changes" at the bottom of the screen
and your changes will be discarded.
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