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WRAP Staff Report

Discussing deliverables, data analysis, modeling plans, and emissions inventories for the Attribution of Haze project and Dust Emissions Joint Forum. Schedule and project deliverables will be reviewed and documented.

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WRAP Staff Report

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  1. WRAP Staff Report Tom Moore March 10-11, 2004 Fire Emissions Joint Forum Meeting

  2. Technical Summit & Modeling Workshop • Technical Summit – January 26-27 • Discuss each Forum’s deliverables and schedule for 2004 technical work • Review ideas for technical data and analyses needed for reasonable progress demonstrations • Discuss Attribution of Haze project • Modeling Workshop – January 28-29 • Review 2003 work completed • Demonstrate new technical tools (source apportionment, QA checklist, windblown dust EI/model, 2002 MM5 meteorological modeling) • Review planned WRAP RMC 2004 workplan • Review modeling plans of other RPOs

  3. April WRAP Board Meeting • April 6-7 – Tempe Missions Palms Hotel • Discuss Stationary Source issues • Workgroup from 2/18-19 SSJF meeting to develop options for Board considerations • Issues • Extend EPA IAQR to West for Regional Haze? • List of questions • Pros and cons of IAQR extension versus WRAP-developed program for stationary sources • BART

  4. Attribution of Haze Project

  5. 2004 AoH Project Data Sources • Source apportionment modeling simulations from the Regional Modeling Center • Receptor-oriented source contribution analyses of aerosol and meteorological monitoring data from the Causes of Haze Assessment project • Existing and refined emissions inventories from the Dust, Emissions, and Fire Forums • Special-purpose source attribution studies such as BRAVO, et cetera • EPA technical guidance documents and analyses • Journal publications, and workshop/conference reports addressing emissions and visibility impairment

  6. 2004 AoH Project Deliverables • Identify: • Geographic source areas of emissions that contribute to impairment at each mandatory federal and tribal Class I area • Mass and species distributions of emissions by source categories within each contributing geographic source area • The amount of natural and manmade emissions affecting each Class I area

  7. 2004 AoH Project Deliverables • Provide: • Documentation of the assumptions, methods, and uncertainties used in the integrated analyses of modeling, monitoring, and emissions data. • Succinct, clear summaries for policymakers, of the estimated areas and sources of impairment for each Class I area, including the associated uncertainty

  8. Schedule • January – March • Organizational meetings – phone/in-person • Develop scope of work for contractor support + hire • April – June • Review/discuss existing source attribution studies (BRAVO, et cetera) • Contractor to identify data available for AoH project • July – September • Review/discuss work products from RMC, CoHA, and EIs • Assign expert review topics

  9. Schedule • October – December • Continue review/discussion of work products from RMC, CoHA, and EIs • Review/discuss draft reports from expert reviewers • Review first draft of AoH report prepared by contractor • January 2005 • Publish final 2004 AoH report • Make plan for subsequent workgroup activities

  10. Dust Emissions Joint Forum • Discussed at 2/24-25 DEJF Meeting • Gather opinions through survey, then move to policy workshop(s) • Natural and anthropogenic definitions • Drafts of “dust” and “fugitive dust” • Purpose of policy • Definitions table

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