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RPO National Technical Workgroup Meeting

St. Louis, MO
November 4-6, 2003

Final Agenda
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Original Agenda (Revised October 25, 2003)
Agenda Revisions Made at Meeting

 
DAY 1 - Tuesday, November 4, 2003
 

12 - 1 Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-On Training
(PCs and trainers also available during the course of the meeting)
Director's Row 46, 4th Floor
 
PLENARY SESSION
Promenade Ballroom D, 2nd Floor
1 - 1:30 Welcome and Logistics RPO Directors and Bill Beal    
  Goals of the Meeting Discussion Group Leaders    
  VIEWS & CATTS training announcement McClure/Husar (10 minutes) •CATT and FASTNET Introduction
•VIEWS Introduction
1:30 - 4:30 Discussion Groups Meeting (based on the following agenda):
 
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS
St. Louis Ballroom H, 4th Floor
 
1:30 - 1:45 Welcome & agenda overview Introductions (around the room) Pitchford & Poirot    
1:45 - 3:00 RPO data/monitoring overviews
(15 min/RPO)		 Each RPO Rep. RPO Data/monitoring overviews (15 min/RPO) Marc Pitchford
Rich Poirot
Scott Reynolds
Ray Bishop
Donna Kenski
3:15 - 3:40 CENRAP KS satellite super site monitoring Jay Turner    
3:40 - 4:00 Midwest RPO ion study Donna Kenski **Presentation part of MRPO update  
3:00 - 4:30 IMPROVE ion study Jeff Collett    
 
EMISSION INVENTORY
St. Louis Ballroom G, 4th Floor
 
  Welcome and Agenda Overview      
  Introductions      
  RPO Discussion/Consensus Session -  Moderators: Laura Boothe and Tom Moore    
  8-9 projects, each for 25-30-minute in-depth presentations/discussion    
  •WRAP Windblown Dust Model development project   •WRAP Windblown Dust EI Ralph Morris
  •WRAP Ammonia EI Improvement project   •EPA/EIIP Windblown Dust Tom Pace
  •WRAP Point/Area Chemical Speciation/Temporal Allocation Profile Improvement project   •WRAP Point/Area Chemistry/Temporal Profiles QA Tom Moore
  •MWRPO CEM/EGU analysis   •MWRPO CEM/EGU Analysis Mark Janssen
 

•MWRPO NH3 Temporal Work/Ammonia Model Project

   •EPA Commitment to reformat CEM/EGU data Marc Houyoux
  •MWRPO Nonroad Project (vessels, motorboats, ag, const, Rrs)   •MWRPO Nonroad Mark Janssen
  •MWRPO Area Source EI Methods Comparison project   •MWRPO Area Source EI Methods Mark Janssen
  •MWRPO IPM Review project   •EPA Area Source Calculations for 2002 NEI Pat Brewer
  •VISTAS states 2002 inventory compared to 99 NEI   •MANE-VU Residential Wood Combustion Survey Megan Schuster
 
PHOTOCHEMICAL and METEOROLOGICAL MODELING
St. Louis Ballroom F, 4th Floor
 
1:30 CENRAP Update   Calvin Ku  
1:45 MANE-VU Update      
2:00 MIDWEST RPO Update   Kirk Baker  
2:15 VISTAS Update   Sheila Holman  
2:30 WRAP Update   John Vimont  
3:00 Review last year's work and goals for this meeting Chad Daniel    
3:30 EPA Modeling Guidance Update Brian Timin    
4:00 RPO Grant Guidance Review Rosalina Rodriguez    
 
PLENARY SESSION
 Promenade D, 2nd Floor
 
4:30 - 5:30 Session on PM Forecasting hosted by Monitoring & Data Analysis Group and open to all Jim Szykman    
5:30 ADJOURN      
4:30 - 6:30 Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-on Training
Director's Row 46, 4th Floor


DAY 2 - Wednesday, November 5, 2003
 

7:30 - 8:30 Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-On Training
Director's Row 46, 4th Floor
8:30 - 11:30 Discussion Groups (based on the following agenda):
     
 
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS
 St. Louis Ballroom H, 4th Floor
 
8:30 - 9:30 Causes of Haze Assessment (WRAP/CENRAP) Mark Green Dave DuBois  
9:00 - 9:30 SEARCH & VISTAS special studies Eric Edgerton    
9:30 - 9:50 Northeastern Monitoring Studies George Allen    
10:00 - 10:30 Ohio University Database & Analytical Tool Kevin Crist Kevin Crist and Charlie Crawford  
10:30 - 11:15 VIEWS update and Plans Shawn McClure    
11:15 - 11:30 Group Discussion - Opportunities for Coordination Rich Poirot Postponed until 11/6  
 
EMISSION INVENTORY
 St. Louis Ballroom G, 4th Floor
 
Status Report on 2002 National Wildfire EI Projects Pete Lahm, USFS & WRAP EPA Briefing David Misenheimer
General fire EI discussion Pete Lahm, USFS & WRAP NEISGEI Overview Stefan Falke
Midwest RPO Fire Emissions Project Mark Janssen, Midwest RPO RPO Virtual Inventories Inventory Schedules Mark Janssen/Tom Moore
VISTAS Fire Emissions Project Greg Stella, VISTAS EI Projection Issues Greg Stella
EPA Fire Emissions Work           Tom Pace, OAQPS EPA plans/projects Soil Ammonia Presentation Marc Houyoux Tom Pace
Questions for EPA: Haze SIP EI Requirements and Discussion Tom Moore, WRAP Fire Emissions Projects  
 
  • Coordination of consistent EI methods with EPA regions across RPO regions
  • Clear Guidance on the use of Transport fractions
  • Clear Guidance on reconciliation of modeling versus SIP inventories
  • Specific list of area/nonroad categories to include
  • Finalization of new Motor Vehicle NH3 emission factor
  • Requirement for use of CEM versus State EGU inventory

•MWRPO Fire
•VISTAS Fire
•EPA Fire
•Fire Data Bases

Mark Janssen
Pat Brewer
Tom Pace
Stefan Falke
EPA briefing on: Phil Lorang    
 
  • How the 2001 CERR is incorporated into 2002 NEI
  • How the 2002 Ainterim@ NEI will be grown from the 1999 NEI
  • How state data will incorporate state/tribal data splits into 2002 NEI
    
 
Photochemical and Meteorological MODELING
 St. Louis Ballroom F, 4th Floor
  		 
Changed location to
St. Louis Ballroom E, 4th Floor
8:30 CAMx4 Model Performance at Super Sites/Grid Resolution Kirk Baker    
9:00 Model Performance Evaluation Tool CENRAP Betty Pun  
9:30 Synthesized REMSAD modeling (BRAVO) John Vimont    
10:00 VISTAS CMAQ Sensitivity Applications Jim Boylan    
10:30 Recent WRAP Modeling WRAP    
11:00 Application of CMAQ to assess particulate matter using two chemistry modules Gopal Sistla Cancelled  
11:30 - 1:00 LUNCH and training room available for VIEWS/CATTS Hands-On Training
Director's Row 46, 4th Floor
1:00 - 2:30 PLENARY SESSION
St. Louis Ballroom H, 4th Floor
  Update on Natural Background Guidance Neil Frank

Guidance for Estimating Natural Visibility Conditions Under the Regional Haze Rule

Tracking Progress Under the Regional Haze Rule
  Presentation on Natural Background Dan Jacob    
  Data Analysis for Transport Rule Doug Solomon Fred Dimmick  
15 min. BREAK      
2:45 - 5:30 Discussion Groups Meeting (based on the following agenda):
 
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS
 St. Louis Ballroom H, 4th Floor
 
2:45 - 3:15 Aerosol extinction methodology assessment Doug Lowenthal    
3:14 - 3:45 Comparison from co-located IMPROVE/STN sites Dennis Crumpler    
4:00 - 4:15 Update on Las Vegas Toxic Metals Workshop George Allen    
4:15 - 4:30 Update on RPO & EPA Fire Emissions Systems Tom Moore    
4:30 - 5:00 Updates on new multi-RPO initiatives (Natural Haze Sensitivity Assessment, CATT, FASTNET) Poirot/Pitchford Included in Husar discussion  
5:00 - 5:30 Uses of non-standard data for haze analysis Rudy Husar    
 
EMISSION INVENTORY & MODELING (Joint Session)
St. Louis Ballroom E, 4th Floor
  		 
JOINT SESSION
Timelines for Inventory Development OPEM, Ammonia Model Emissions sensitivity related modeled runs   •OPEM Mark Janssen
  •Ammonia and WB Dust EI projects Ralph Morris
    •Projections of Visibility Improvement and modeling sensitivity analysis

Ralph Morris

Kirk Baker

    •SMOKE Improvement Marc Houyoux
   


Discussion Items
•Inter-RPO timing, coordination, and deliverables
• Use of Dust Transport Fractions
 

 
    EMISSION INVENTORY  
      Fire Emissions Projects •National Wildfire EI Pete Lahm
5:30 ADJOURN      


DAY 3 - Thursday, November 6, 2003
 

7:30 - 8:30 Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-On Training
Director's Row 46
8:30 - 12:30 Discussion Groups Meeting (based on the following agendas):
 
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS
St. Louis Ballroom H, 4th Floor
   
8:30 - 9:15 Discussion of Monitoring & Data Analysis & Schedules in RPO Grant Guidance Pitchford & Rodriguez    
9:15 - 10:00 Discussion of opportunities for integration of RPO Data Analysis Activities (VIEWS, CATT, FASTNET, Modeling, etc) Poirot and all    
10:30 - 11:00 Updates from EI & Modeling Groups TBA Cancelled  
11:00 - 11:45 Discussion for Opportunities for Coordinating Integration of Future RPO/EPA/IMPROVE Monitoring Activities Collett/Allen/All    
11:45 - 12:30 Discussion of next years workgroup process, co-chairs, etc., and any unfinished business Poirot/Pitchford/All    
 
EMISSION INVENTORY
 St. Louis Ballroom G, 4th Floor
  		   
Ideas for tracking and registry of inventories - Methods to exchange the data and maintain version control of inventories, including prospective schedule for keeping in touch as EIs are revised - Tom Moore and Mark Janssen (Combined schedule of major EI milestones for each RPO - Tom drafting.  Review of minimum quality assurance needs and website formats for emissions data exchange - Mark drafting.)   Electric Utility Growth Methodology Review Mark Janssen
Building a Better Ammonia NEI Mark Janssen
Revision of the NEI of Ammonia from Animal Husbandry Marc Houyoux
  Emission Modeling Survey Results Marc Houyoux
  "Grill Phil" Questions for EPA All
  Closeout Tom Moore
EPA Projection Issues - Pat Brewer
open discussion, brainstorming		      
Emissions Closeout Session - Laura and Tom - Discussion of cooperative projects/combining resources, review remaining issues, selection of next year's workgroup co-chairs      
 
MODELING Plans for next year
St. Louis Ballroom F, 4th Floor
  		   
8:30 Selection of next years co-chairs      
9:00 MM5 Sensitivity Analysis Applications (VISTAS)   Mike Abraczinskas  
10:00 Meteorological Modeling Issues Discussion   Kirk Baker Mike Abraczinskas Chad Daniel  
10:30 Discuss goals for group for the next year      
11:00 Ideas for the next national RPO technical meeting      
12:30 ADJOURN