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PBT Monitoring Strategy Outline

PBT Monitoring Strategy Outline. Melissa Hulting U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office. The Strategy is to be an EPA document that: builds on existing programs, while calling for

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PBT Monitoring Strategy Outline

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  1. PBT Monitoring Strategy Outline Melissa Hulting U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  2. The Strategy is to be an EPA document that: • builds on existing programs, while calling for • new partnerships that improve communication and sharing of PBT information among agencies and organizations. We have drafted an outline of the Strategy and welcome your comments.

  3. What will the strategy document do? • Justify need for strategy • Present national monitoring objectives • Assess current monitoring and related modeling in light of objectives • Explain tools used to generate strategy and recommendations • Examine data needs, make recommendations • Suggest roles and responsibilities of partners • Schedule for next steps PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  4. Justify Need for the Strategy • Nature of PBT problem • Priorities, problems of different organizations and levels of government • Domestic reduction goals and programs • Need to measure progress • Fulfillment of international agreements (CEC monitoring, POPs treaty) PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  5. Objectives • Overall Goals: • Measure trends in various media • Evaluate success of PBT risk management actions • Integrate across media, across temporal and spatial scales, across programs • Identify sources • Build on existing programs • Integrate with modeling • Substance-specific monitoring objectives PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  6. Discuss Current Activities • Emissions, air, water, sediment, fish, other food, humans, other wildlife • Monitoring Program Inventory • Models available and modeling efforts conducted PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  7. Explain Tools • Policy questions • Workshop proceedings/input from partners • Monitoring needs from PBT Action Plans, other programs • Strategic principles • Conceptual models • Assessment of current monitoring situation, identification of gaps PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  8. Monitoring Needs and Recommendations • What objectives are not being met by current data? • Gaps in data • Add to current monitoring networks • New networks or sites • Feasibility: methods, cost • Capacity to address emerging pollutants PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  9. Roles and responsibilities • Who will?: • Collect samples • Analyze samples • QA/QC • Manage and analyze data • Interpret and report PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  10. Next Steps • Periodic teleconferences for further input • Monitoring data clearinghouse • Initial assessment of current monitoring data: What does it tell us? • Schedule for reporting • Schedule for reassessment of monitoring design PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

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