Fire Emissions Joint Forum:

Fire Emissions Joint Forum Meeting
December 10-11, 2002, Jackson, WY

Meeting Documents

Post-Meeting Documents (submitted 12/23/02)

• Meeting Notes
• List of Attendees
• Notes from the FEJF Portion of the 11/02 WRAP Board Meeting
   
• Presentation: Annual Emission Goals for Fire
• FEJF Consensus Approved Annual Emission Goal Policy (12/16/02 Draft, also see AEG Page)
   
• Presentation: Fire Tracking Systems, Darla Potter
• FEJF Consensus Approved Fire Tracking System Policy (12/19/02 Draft, also see FTS Page)
   
• Presentation: Non-Buring Alternatives: Wildlands, Jones & Stokes
   
• Presentation: Tracking Fire Emissions to Develop §308 SIPs/TIPs, Tom Moore

Review Documents (submitted prior to meeting)

• Revised AEG Policy (12/01/02 revision - see above for most recent Consensus approved draft)
• AEG Policy Reviewer Comments
• Nonburning Alternatives for Vegetation and Fuel Management
  (Please see the section on Barriers to Non-Burning Alternatives, Chapter 3, page 35)
• Integrated Assessment Update and 2018 Emissions Inventory for Prescribed Fire, Wildfire, and Agricultural Burning
• Non-Burning Management Alternatives on Agricultural Lands in the Western United States
• Community Smoke Modeling, Presentation, by Doug Fox (12/09/02)
• 1996 Fire Emission Inventory, discussion materials (12/09/02)
• 1996 Fire Emission Inventory, draft of Final Report  (12/09/02)

Agenda

December 10 - Day One (0800-1700):

• FEJF Membership Update - New faces and a new Co-Chair
  • November WRAP Update
  • Budget
  • Section 309 Products
  • SIP/TIP Template Update (STIP2)
• Discussion of Final Annual Emissions Goal Policy (If needed and conference calls do not finish the job)
• Strategy Development: Completing the Appendix C Guidance: Agricultural and Wildland Emission Reduction Techniques
• Emission Reduction Factors and Tools
• Discussion of Fire Tracking Systems Policy (If needed and conference calls do not finish the job)
• Strategy Development: Completing the Guidance for FTS
  (format and methods of submittal)
• Wildland Alternatives to Burning Report: FEJF comments and discussion - Jones and Stokes -Review and comment on Final Report on 1996 Emissions Inventory Methodology
•  Air Sciences
• PNW FS Research - Tools Under Development for Modeling and Inventorying Fire Smoke - Sam Sandberg (invited)

December 11 - Day Two (0800-1500):

• Whitepaper: Alternatives  to Burning Approaches (A discussion of how the WRAP Fire Policies address alternatives to burning, Section 309-Assessment of Administrative Barriers, compiling the Administrative Barriers sections of the Agricultural and Wildland Burning Alternatives Reports)
• CSEM Model for Assessing Smoke Impacts on a Regional Scale - Doug Fox (invited)
• FEJF FY03 Workplan - Where do we start?

Meeting Location and Accommodations

• Spring Creek Ranch
  1800 Spirit Dance Road
  Jackson, Wyoming 83001
  Phone: (800) 443-6139

Please reserve your room by November 25th and reference "WRAP" in order to receive the gov't rate of $115 per night. Rooms are being held for the nights of Dec. 9 and 10.

Transportation

• A complimentary airport shuttle service to and from Jackson Airport is on a space available basis between the hours of 8am and 10pm. Individuals requesting this service should make arrangements when making their reservations. This shuttle can provide service to downtown Jackson as well.

Contact

Please RSVP if you will attend for all participants.
Please RSVP your plans either way for all FEJF Members.

Pete Lahm, FEJF Chair
US Forest Service
(602) 771-2356
Pete_Lahm@compuserve.com

Deb Kinsley
Western Governors' Association
(303) 623-5635 x101
dkinsley@westgov.org

(Updated 11/19/02)