Technical Coordinator Report

1
Technical Coordinator Report

• Fall Technical Conference
• Dust Research
• RA BART
• Backstop Trading Program
• WESTAR Committee Meeting

2
Fall Technical Conference

• On Regional Haze SIPs
• Revisit 309 SIP Templates developed in 2000/2001
• Refine SIP temples
• Provide focal point for STIP II
• Identify key elements of Technical Support
  Document

3
Dust Research

• Collaboration w/WRAP, DOD
• Applied field research to reconcile differences
  between monitored/modeled dust transport
• Findings
• Gillette box model is not reliable
• ISC model is reasonably accurate

4
RA BART Attribution Project

• AMC/MTF Initiated
• Follow up to RA BART Case Studies
• Working Group - States, Tribes, FLMs
• Recommend Process and Technical Criteria
• Techniques Monitoring, Source and Observational
  Modeling applicable to other AQ analysis
• MTF/Public Comment

5
309 Backstop Trading Program

• AMC/MTF Initiated
• Working Group - States, Tribes, EPA
• Update Model Rule/MOU - Develop SIP
• To incorporate Supplement to the Annex
• To work within State regulatory structures
• Address EPA concerns
• Review by MTF, AZ Stakeholders, Public

6
Committee Meeting

• Bring together WESTAR Committees
• Planning, Technical, Sources, Mobile Sources
• Take stock, coordinate cross-committee
  activities, select co-chairs
• Finalize Issue Papers
• Plan for coming year
• Priorities
• Actions