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Air Quality Management (AQM) Work Group Recommendations for Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) by Margie Perkins for WESTAR Fall Mtg. October 4, 2004. Presentation Overview. Purpose of the AQM Work Group NAS/NRC Report Overview Work Group Structure Recommendations Taking Shape

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  1. Air Quality Management (AQM)Work Group Recommendations for Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC)by Margie Perkinsfor WESTAR Fall Mtg.October 4, 2004

  2. Presentation Overview • Purpose of the AQM Work Group • NAS/NRC Report Overview • Work Group Structure • Recommendations Taking Shape • Structure of Recommendations

  3. AQM Work Group: Purpose • Assist the CAAAC in considering recommendations advanced by the National Research Council of NAS in its report, Air Quality Management in the United States. • Focus on actions and opportunities available in the next 1-4 years • Issues not requiring statutory changes • Emphasis on ozone and PM2.5 NAAQS implementation, regional haze implementation, and integration of air toxics

  4. NRC Seven Broad Challenges • Mtg. NAAQS for O3 and PM2.5 & Reducing Regional Haze • Designing and Implementing Controls for Haz. Air Pollutants • Protecting Human Health and Welfare in Absence of • Threshold Exposure • Ensuring Environmental Justice • Assessing and Protecting Ecosystem Health • Mitigating Intercontinental and Cross-Border Transport • Maintaining AQM System Efficiency in the face of Changing • Climate

  5. NRC Longterm Recommendations for Enhanced AQM System • Identify and Assess Most Significant Exposures, Risks, and • Uncertainties • Take an Integrated Multipollutant Approach to Mitigating Most • Significant Risks • Take an Airshed-Based Approach to Controlling Emissions • Emphasize Results Over Process, Create Accountability, and • Dynamically Adjust

  6. NRC Recommendations for an Enhanced AQM System • Strengthen Scientific and Technical Capacity • Expand National and Multistate Control Strategies • Transform the SIP Process • Develop Integrated Program for Criteria and Haz. Air • Pollutants • Enhance Protection of Ecosystems and Other Public Welfare

  7. Responding to the NAS Report: • AQM Work Group identified two main areas in which short-term changes: Science and Technology and Policy and Planning • Encompasses numerous issues, tasks, and challenges • Recommendations for short-term changes will be developed; in addition, desirable long-term changes will also be addressed • Many of the recommendations are interdependent: improvements in policy and planning often depend on advances in science and technology

  8. Organizational Structure of Response to CAAAC on NAS Report Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) EPA Air Quality Management Work Group Co-Chair: Janet McCabe (IN) Co-Chair: Greg Green (EPA/OAQPS) Policy & Planning Subgroup Co-Chair: David Shaw (NY) Co-Chair: Lydia Wegman (EPA-OAQPS) Science & Technology Subgroup Co-Chair: Mike Koerber (LADCO) Co-Chair: Peter Tsirigotis (EPA/OAQPS) • Work Teams • Short-Term SIP Process • Co-chairs: Janet McCabe (IN) and Bill Baker (EPA) • Regional/National Strategies • Co-chairs: John Hornback (Metro 4/SESARM/VISTAS) and Sam Napolitano (EPA) • Innovative and Multi-Pollutant Approaches • Co-chairs: Patrick Cummins (WGA), Penny Lassiter (EPA), Tim Smith (EPA), and David Solomon (EPA) • Long-term AQM Framework • Co-chairs: Bill Becker (STAPPA/ALAPCO), Dave Shaw (NYSDEC), Tom Helms (EPA) and Joe Paisie (EPA) Work Teams Emissions, Monitoring & Modeling All Subgroup members are providing input on these three topics Ecosystems Co-chairs: Paul Stacey (CT/DEP) and Rona Birnbaum (EPA/OAP) Health and Exposure Co-chairs: Dr. Elaine Barron (JAC PDN AQ) , John Bachmann (EPA)

  9. Science and Technology: Focal Points Using existing and innovative tools to improve air quality data and attainment analyses (SIPs) • Emissions measurements– promoting continuous measurement techniques, improving emissions inventories, and tracking emissions to promote accountability • Monitoring– employing speciation/precursor monitoring for accountability, and evaluating effectiveness of control programs • Modeling– advancing technical methods and implementation support for multi-pollutant analyses

  10. Science and Technology: Focal Points (Cont.) Identifying opportunities for sector-based multi-pollutant controls • Integrated analytical techniques– providing timely support during the development of PM2.5, ozone and regional haze SIPs, and air toxics standards • Control guidelines– developing sector-based control techniques/alternative control techniques guidelines (CTGs/ACTs)

  11. Science and Technology: Focal Points (cont.) Improving tools and metrics for accountability beyond air quality • Monitoring– advancing rural (and ecosystem) monitoring • Health and exposure indicators– tracking and utilizing public health data more effectively • Ecosystem indicators– creating a process for developing ecosystem indicators

  12. Policy and Planning: Focal Points • Improving EPA’s approach to pollution control to maximize clean air outcomes (building on technical and scientific core) • Identifying new opportunities for pollution reduction and health/environmental benefits, including: • Improving the SIP Process—improving efficiency, reducing barriers to SIP approval, promoting innovative approaches and new technologies, increasing accountability • Regional/National Approaches—identifying new opportunities for pollution reduction using regional/national strategies

  13. Policy and Planning: Focal Points (cont.) Identifying new opportunities for pollution reduction and health/environmental benefits, including: • Innovative and Multi-Pollutant Strategies—assessing multiple pollutant benefits of control strategies, aligning regulatory timelines, creating multi-pollutant regulatory/control approaches, encouraging innovation in all aspects of air quality management • Long-term AQM Framework– altering air quality management approaches to improve efficiency and effectiveness

  14. Recommendations Framework

  15. Unifying Themes Responding to the NAS Report • Improving accountability and performance in achieving environmental goals • Streamlining and improving SIP development • Integrating environmental management efforts by encouraging multi-pollutant approaches and further addressing health & ecosystem protection • Encouraging innovation in all aspects of air quality management • Expanding regional/national strategies

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