WESTAR Technical Committee Update Spring Business Meeting 2010

WESTAR Technical Committee Update Spring Business Meeting 2010 Denver, Colorado

Purpose of Technical Committee Identify and discuss air monitoring, modeling and emission inventory issues affecting western states Share information and issues between western states If needed raise issues or concerns to the national level

Representation Two co-chairs serve 2 years Momentum increasing after a break in late 2009 Participation in calls is increasing Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Forest Service and National Park Service participate in calls

Current Activities Monthly Conference Calls (4 th Wednesday of the month) Priority issues are: Revised monitoring standards and resulting monitoring regulations for PM Coarse, Lead, Ozone, SO 2 and NO NCore monitoring site implementation and funding Funding (or lack thereof) for the above initiatives 2010 EPA Network Assessment due July 1, 2010 NSR (PSD and Non-attainment area) modeling EPA guidance for PM 2. 5 and 1 -hour NO 2 modeling

Future Direction Promising Information sharing between committees – the recent presentation by Colleen Delaney from the Planning Committee of the ozone comment letter was well received Needed More involvement from modelers and emission inventory staff is desired. The committee is heavily monitoring driven at this point

Technical Committee Leadership Current Co-Chairs Mike Ragan, WA Phil Allen, OR Past Chair John Coefield, MT WESTAR Board Liaison Stu Clark WESTAR motivator Bob Lebens