| PM 2.5 Implementation – September 26, 2007 |
This 1 hour and 43-minute broadcast provided a general overview of PM 2.5 Implementation. State, local and Tribal air pollution agency personnel will find the presentations on these topics informative:
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- Overview of PM 2.5 Implementation Rule.
- PM 2.5 nonattainment picture in the next 5-10 years.
- RACT/RACM/Control Measures.
- PM 2.5 Implementation and Designations: detailed presentation information from a workshop the U.S. EPA, OAQPS held in Chicago, IL from June 20-21, 2007. The workshop featured PM 2.5 Implementation Plans due in 2008 and the Upcoming Designations for the Revised 25-hour PM 2.5 Standard.
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| Air Quality Data & Tools for Ozone Season & Beyond (July 2007) |
This 45-minute seminar's focus was on new Data and Tools for Air Quality professionals. State, local and Tribal air pollution control agencies will find these tools useful in conducting technical analyses and in communicating air quality information. In this program, EPA representatives discuss the most recent air trends data and new air quality tools: |
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- AirCompare provides local air quality information to help air quality agencies address concerns about air quality in their communities.
- AirTrends
- BenMAP is a geographic information system-based desktop computer program that estimates changes in incidence of a variety of health outcomes associated with changes in certain ambient air pollutants and estimates the dollar value of those changes. A new version of BenMAP will be available later this summer to help air quality agencies do these analyses.
- QA Handbook Volume IV: Meteorological Monitoring is an updated resource on the EPA website to assist in setting up and operating met systems and collecting quality assured meteorological data. This met data is used in support of forecasting pollution episodes, and to understand long term transport and modeling efforts. The QA Handbook discusses measurement objectives, new technologies, digital data acquisition and verification and validations of meteorological data.
- Smog City 2 is an online interactive air pollution simulator that demonstrates how emission sources, population and weather affect air quality. It includes ozone and particle pollution demonstrations.
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| The 2007 Clean Air Act Update (April 2007) |
During this two-hour broadcast on The 2007 Clean Air Act Update, senior EPA representatives discussed significant activities underway related to U.S. EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) programs. Jenny Noonan, Acting Director of the Office of Policy Analysis and Communications, interviewed Steve Page, Director of OAQPS, as well as senior OAQPS managers listed below. This update included topics such as the new process for reviewing the national ambient air quality standards, residual risk and area source toxics standards, air monitoring rule, mercury monitoring, air permits, multipollutant planning and analytical support, public outreach and regional haze progress. Voluntary programs such as air quality forecasting and woodstove changeouts were also highlighted.
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| Senior OAQPS managers who participated in the April 5 program: |
- Lydia Wegman Director, Health and Environmental Impacts Division
- Scott Mathias Associate Director, Air Quality Policy Division
- Michael Ling Associate Director, Air Quality Policy Division
- Peter Tsirigotis Director, Sector Policies and Programs Division
- Chet Wayland Acting Director, Air Quality Assessment Division
- Greg Green Acting Director, Outreach and Information Division
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| Previous EPA Air Toxics Now Broadcasts |
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- November 16, 2005
- July 20, 2005
- July 24, 2004
- March 24, 2004
- November 19, 2003
- July 30, 2003
- March 26, 2003
- November 26, 2002
- July 31, 2002
- March 27, 2002
- November 27, 2001
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