Air Managers Committee: Meetings & Calls

WRAP Ozone and NOx in the West Meeting
November 11th, 2009, Santa Fe, NM

• Meeting Logistics
• Agenda PDF or DOC
• Background Reading Materials

This meeting follows the Fall 2009 WESTAR Council meeting of M-T 11/9-10 at the same location.

Interactive Agenda  

• “Clean Air Planning Act of 2009”; Carper‐Alexander‐Collins‐Klobuchar Staff Working Draft, August 7, 2009 (Western NOx provisions highlighted)
   
• EPA crafting multipollutant strategy; Greenwire, October 27, 2009
   
• Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Primary and NO2 and SO2 Secondary Standards
  • Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Secondary Standards - Risk and Exposure Assessments
  • Reactive Nitrogen in the United States; An Analysis of Inputs, Flows, Consequences, and Management Options (August 27, 2009 Draft)
     
• Ozone (O3) Standards
  • September 16, 2009 decision by Administrator Jackson to reconsider Ozone Standards
• Ozone (O3) Implementation
   
• Particulate Matter (PM) Standards
  • CASAC PM Panel Review documents
    • Integrated Science Assessment, August 2009
    • PM Risk Assessment, September 2009
    • Urban-Focused Visibility Assessment, September 2009
    • Policy Assessment for the Review of the Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards, September 2009
• PM10 NAAQS Implementation
• PM2.5 NAAQS Implementation
  • EPA §110(a) Guidance for 24-hour PM2 5 NAAQS; EPA OAQPS, September 2009
     
• Air Quality Management in the United States; National Research Council; 2004 (Description: "The implementation of air quality regulations should be less bureaucratic -- with more emphasis on results than process -- and should be designed to protect ecosystems as well as people. The report recommends that The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) use an approach to target groups of pollutants instead of individual ones and that revised or new regulations also should consider how air pollution travels from state to state and across international borders. In addition, improved tracking of emissions is needed to accurately assess what populations are at the highest risk of health problems from pollution and to better measure the progress of pollution-control strategies.")

• Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS) Activities - Fall 2009, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Magazine, Fall 2009
• Ambient Monitoring in and around Oil & Gas Basins in UT, CO, and WY (PDF or PPT); Utah Division of Air Quality; September 2009
• Bureau of Land Management Air Resource Management Monitoring Strategy; January 3, 2006

• Emission Characterization and Emission Inventories for the 21st Century; Macarthur, et. al., October 2009
• Fire Emissions Tracking System (FETS) Update; September 2009
• An Improved Method to Represent Aviation Emissions in Air Quality Modeling Systems and their Impacts on Air Quality; Arunachalam, Sarav, et. al.; American Meteorological Society,; 2008

• Reducing Vertical Transport over Complex Terrain in Photochemical Grid Models; Emery, et. al.; October 2009
• Regional Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Ozone Formation in the Western United States; Rodriguez, M., et., al.; September 2009
• Global Sources of Local Pollution: An Assessment of Long-Range Transport of Key Air Pollutants To and From the United States; National Research Council; September 2009
• Summertime State-Level Source-Receptor Relationships between Nitrogen Oxides Emissions and Surface Ozone Concentrations over the Continental United States; Tong, D. Q. and Mauzerall, D. L.; Environmental Science & Technology; August 2008 (16 MB)
• East Asia's Dirty Air Pollutes North America, Environment News Service, March 2008

• U.S. Global Change Research Program (Integrating federal research on climate and global change)
• Damage, pollution from wildfires could surge as western U.S. warms; Land Letter; August 6, 2009
• Beetle-ravaged trees change wildfire behavior in western Montana
• Biogenic carbon and anthropogenic pollutants combine to form a cooling haze over the southeastern United States, Goldstein, A., et. al.; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; April 2009
• Temperature Change 1908-2007, Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (from Hotter and Drier: The West’s Changed Climate; March 2008)
• Sensitivity of global tropospheric ozone and fine particulate matter concentrations to climate change, Racherla, P.N. and Adams, P. J.; Journal of Geophysical Research, December 2006