PBT Monitoring Strategy Outline

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PBT Monitoring Strategy Outline

• Melissa Hulting
• U.S. EPA
• Great Lakes National Program Office

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• The Strategy is to be an EPA document that
• builds on existing programs, while calling for
• new partnerships that improve communication and
  sharing of PBT information among agencies and
  organizations.
• We have drafted an outline of the Strategy and
  welcome your comments.

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What will the strategy document do?

• Justify need for strategy
• Present national monitoring objectives
• Assess current monitoring and related modeling in
  light of objectives
• Explain tools used to generate strategy and
  recommendations
• Examine data needs, make recommendations
• Suggest roles and responsibilities of partners
• Schedule for next steps

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Justify Need for the Strategy

• Nature of PBT problem
• Priorities, problems of different organizations
  and levels of government
• Domestic reduction goals and programs
• Need to measure progress
• Fulfillment of international agreements (CEC
  monitoring, POPs treaty)

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Objectives

• Overall Goals
• Measure trends in various media
• Evaluate success of PBT risk management actions
• Integrate across media, across temporal and
  spatial scales, across programs
• Identify sources
• Build on existing programs
• Integrate with modeling
• Substance-specific monitoring objectives

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Discuss Current Activities

• Emissions, air, water, sediment, fish, other
  food, humans, other wildlife
• Monitoring Program Inventory
• Models available and modeling efforts conducted

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Explain Tools

• Policy questions
• Workshop proceedings/input from partners
• Monitoring needs from PBT Action Plans, other
  programs
• Strategic principles
• Conceptual models
• Assessment of current monitoring situation,
  identification of gaps

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Monitoring Needs and Recommendations

• What objectives are not being met by current
  data?
• Gaps in data
• Add to current monitoring networks
• New networks or sites
• Feasibility methods, cost
• Capacity to address emerging pollutants

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Roles and responsibilities

• Who will?
• Collect samples
• Analyze samples
• QA/QC
• Manage and analyze data
• Interpret and report

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Next Steps

• Periodic teleconferences for further input
• Monitoring data clearinghouse
• Initial assessment of current monitoring data
  What does it tell us?
• Schedule for reporting
• Schedule for reassessment of monitoring design