1 / 24

Multi-Pollutant Air Quality Management

Multi-Pollutant Air Quality Management. Rhea Jones and Liz Naess, EPA/OAQPS Innovations Conference January 8, 2008. Improve environmental and health data Improve the priority setting process Improve accountability by monitoring progress and evaluating results

diep
Download Presentation

Multi-Pollutant Air Quality Management

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Multi-Pollutant Air Quality Management Rhea Jones and Liz Naess, EPA/OAQPS Innovations Conference January 8, 2008

  2. Improve environmental and health data Improve the priority setting process Improve accountability by monitoring progress and evaluating results Take climate change into account Support transportation and land use scenario planning Integrate air quality planning into land use, transportation and community development plans Analyze existing laws to encourage pollution prevention, energy efficiency and renewable energy Expand the use of episodic control measures Overcome potential barriers to clean energy/air quality integration Include incentives for voluntary and innovative land use, energy, and transportation technologies or approaches Develop programs that reduce public demand for polluting activities Establish an inter-agency liaison group with EPA and other Federal agencies CAAAC AQM subcommittee recommendations:

  3. Improve environmental and health data Improve the priority setting process Improve accountability by monitoring progress and evaluating results Take climate change into account Support transportation and land use scenario planning Integrate air quality planning into land use, transportation and community development plans Analyze existing laws to encourage pollution prevention, energy efficiency and renewable energy Expand the use of episodic control measures Overcome potential barriers to clean energy/air quality integration Include incentives for voluntary and innovative land use, energy, and transportation technologies or approaches Develop programs that reduce public demand for polluting activities Establish an inter-agency liaison group with EPA and other Federal agencies CAAAC AQM subcommittee recommendations:

  4. Improve environmental and health data Improve the priority setting process Improve accountability by monitoring progress and evaluating results Take climate change into account Support transportation and land use scenario planning Integrate air quality planning into land use, transportation and community development plans Analyze existing laws to encourage pollution prevention, energy efficiency and renewable energy Expand the use of episodic control measures Overcome potential barriers to clean energy/air quality integration Include incentives for voluntary and innovative land use, energy, and transportation technologies or approaches Develop programs that reduce public demand for polluting activities Establish an inter-agency liaison group with EPA and other Federal agencies CAAAC AQM subcommittee recommendations:

  5. Why a multi-pollutant approach? • Pollutants have common emissions sources • Control technologies can affect multiple pollutants • Atmospheric chemistry and transport affect all pollutants • Exposure and deposition pathways can be similar among pollutants • Multiple pollutants affect human health and the ecosystem

  6. What is a Comprehensive AQMP? • Overarching recommendation of CAAAC’s AQM subcommittee • Set of pollution reduction strategies for an area demonstrating • Attainment/maintenance of NAAQS • Risk reductions from HAPs • Improvements in visibility and ecosystems • Integration with land use, transportation, energy and climate • The AQMP would be . . . • Multi-pollutant based • Developed at the discretion of the state • Parts would be used to address CAA mandates (e.g., SIPs)

  7. What are we doing for this project? • Partner with areas to integrate the SIP requirements into a comprehensive AQMP • Assist on technical and policy issues • Compare outcomes with the traditional approach • 3 areas to integrate the SIP requirements into a comprehensive plan • New York – entire state (Region 2) • North Carolina – entire state (Region 4) • St. Louis (Illinois/Missouri) – (Regions 5 and 7)

  8. Objectives/action items • Develop a programmatic framework for an AQMP which integrates analysis, planning, and implementation of air quality management programs to meet stated multi-pollutant objectives. • Provide a real world example of integrated control strategies and comprehensive SIP development. • Evaluate effectiveness of alternative control strategies in improving air quality indicators of interest (criteria pollutants, air toxics, visibility, ecosystems)

  9. Objectives/action items (cont) • Provide measures for tracking progress of the plan to be able to demonstrate effectiveness: • Emissions reductions • Air quality improvement • Human/environmental benefits • Develop, consider and use clear indicators and quality-of-life measures that go beyond air quality data such as: • reduction in megawatts used • reduction in VMT

  10. Initial Policy Questions • To what extent can a comprehensive multi-pollutant approach be more cost-effective and less resource-intensive in the long-term, and how can this be ensured? • What are the comparative efficiencies and burdens for States to submit ozone, PM, regional haze and transport SIPs together? • What are the benefits and efficiencies gained from integrating air quality planning with energy, land-use, transportation and climate change planning and/or initiatives?

  11. What is the timing? • June 2007-December 2009: Design and conduct pilot studies • July 2007:Begin State discussions; Receive AQM Subcommittee’s Phase II final report • January 2008: Scope of project and work plan prepared by pilot areas • 2008-2009:Development of AQMPs with pilot areas. Share progress, information and guidance with other S/L/Ts; • December 2009:Final Air Quality Management Plan due from the pilot areas • April 2012/2013: 24-hour PM2.5 and ozone SIPs due

  12. NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation Division of Air Resources Air Quality Management PlanPilot Project Robert D. Bielawa, P.E. January 8, 2008 Durham, NC

  13. Air Quality Challenges For New York State • Ozone • PM2.5 • Regional Haze • Mercury • Greenhouse Gases • Acid Deposition

  14. Other Focus Areas • Intra-Departmental Coordination • New Climate Change Office • Regional Green House Gas Initiative (RGGI) • Div. Of Solid and Hazardous Waste • Division of Water • Division of Lands and Forests • Motor Vehicles GHG Rules • Project Reviews

  15. OTHER STATE AGENCIES WITH AIR QUALITY CONCERNS • Transportation • Health • Agriculture and Markets • Public Service • Energy Research and Development Authority • Adirondack Park Agency • New York Power Authority (NYPA) • Long Island Power Authority (LIPA)

  16. OTHER NON-STATE ENTITIES WITH AIR QUALITY CONCERNS • Local Governments • County • City • Metropolitan Planning Organizations • Highway Projects and Mobile Source Emissions

  17. AQMP Objectives • Where possible, integrate air quality planning with • Energy efficiency • Climate • Acid deposition • Ecosystems • Transportation planning • Sustainable development • Identify multi-pollutant control strategies • Streamlined, more efficient process

  18. Concerns • Intra-agency coordination • Cross-agency conflicts of interest • Differences in regional priorities • Politics • Economics

  19. Schedule • January 2008 • Scope of project and workplan • January 2008 – 2009 • Development of AQMP • December 2009 • Final AQMP due

  20. CONTACT INFORMATION Robert D. Bielawa, P.E.Environmental Engineer II SIP Planning Section Bureau of Air Quality PlanningDivision of Air Resources625 Broadway, 2nd FloorAlbany, NY 12233-3251(518) 402-8396

More Related