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This document provides an overview of the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF), its mission, workplan, and deliverables. It includes policies, guidance, and technical information related to estimating air pollution emissions and managing emissions from natural and human-caused fires. The document also covers public education and outreach strategies, visibility evaluation, alternatives to burning, and program evaluation.
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309/308 Technical & Policy Overview Fire Emissions Joint Forum March 10-11, 2004 San Diego, CA
Silver Anniversary FEJF Meeting--March 10, 2004 – San Diego, CA--
Reprinted from Dilbert Calendar, June 18, 2003, by Scott Adams
FEJF Mission (7/2/98) • The Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) is to make recommendations to the WRAP and related WRAP forums on policies and methodologies for: • estimating air pollution emissions and their effects on air quality and visibility due to smoke from various natural and human-caused fires • developing a data set and associated tracking system for those emissions in the geographical area at least encompassed by the GCVTC states and tribes • recommending strategies and methods to manage emissions from these sources. • FEJF Workplan (February 25, 1999)
FEJF Deliverables • Policies • Guidance (incl. Public Education & Outreach) • Technical (emission inventories)
309 States/Tribes • Visibility • Minimizing emissions • Evaluation of dispersion • Alternatives to burning • Public notification • Monitoring • Surveillance and enforcement • Program evaluation
309 States/Tribes • visibility • minimizing emissions • evaluation of dispersion • alternatives to burning • public notification • monitoring • surveillance and enforcement • program evaluation