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Current ORS Experience

Current ORS Experience. Overwhelming Consensus on :.

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Current ORS Experience

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  1. Current ORS Experience

  2. Overwhelming Consensus on: • Need for general “Outreach” on the part of the ORS community to provide information to state and local agencies on: - The current capabilities of ORS systems, - Demonstrated applications of these systems, and - Potential applications of the systems. • Critical need for “referenceable” EPA document outlining ORS technologies and their “recognized” applications. This is to serve as a guide for agencies in selecting an appropriate ORS approach for specific testing requirements. • Need for EPA Guidance Document for siting of ORS systems to assure “representative” data similar to the documents which exists for criteria pollutant instrumentation.

  3. How to accomplish these thingsOutreach • Success stories made available to states and local agencies (Web, EPA distributions) • Make EPA Documents (as above) accessible on EPA Web site • Use ETV program to demonstrate performance of specific instruments and applications • Hold workshops (STAPA/ALAPCO) to provide education of state and local agencies/organizations(perception is that these technologies are too complex and too costly to use routinely and they are not proven)

  4. How to accomplish these thingsDocumentation • Press for rapid document generation under the Homeland Security umbrella • Work with other organizations (e.g. ASTM) if immediate funding is not available

  5. Improvements Needed NONE

  6. Improvements Needed • Make software “smarter” to handle changes in the measurement matrix • Simplify/automate operation of systems, esp. analytical methods development • Find ways to get more funding to state and local agencies so they can upgrade their systems rather than “keeping old systems running just one more year”

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