Technical Oversight Committee: Meetings & Calls

Technical Oversight Committee Co-Chairs Meeting
May 13, 2004, San Francisco, CA

Agenda and Meeting Materials

• Agenda PDF or DOC
• Meeting Notes PDF, DOC or WPD

The primary purpose of this meeting was to provide Technical Co-Chairs with guidance on the preparation of the 2005 WRAP Workplan & Budget. It was pointed out that the WRAP 2004 Grant of $3.08 MM (for 2005 WRAP spending) will be reduced by about 25% from recent historical levels, thus WRAP Committees, Forums and Workgroups are being asked to take a "hard look" at those tasks in their Workplans that have not yet been completed, and redirect funds to those tasks that are essential to preparing §309 Updates and §308 SIP’s in 2007. Basically we concluded that we need to focus more on "execution" rather than "new planning".

The schedule that has been developed calls for the first draft of the Forums’ Budget & Workplan submittals to be delivered to Tom Moore by June 25th. Forum Co-Chairs were requested to look at rough plans for 2006-07, as well as detailed plans for 2005 in this planning cycle. The WRAP Planning Team will meet in Denver July 20-21st to review those drafts in context with the IOC’s policy forum plans. The WRAP goal is to have the draft 2005-07 Workplan/Budget completed by August 20th, and finalized by September 10th. It will then be taken before the Board in October for final approval.

We also reviewed the WIGIMS project (WRAP Integrated Geospatial Information Management Strategy), a project to incorporate all the Technical Information produced by the WRAP (ie/ emission inventories, modeling results, monitoring values) into a single display where all the information can be considered holistically. The idea is to enable a reviewer to select some polygon on a GIS map, and see the various data all together in order to evaluate the "big picture". A $25K contract was issued to Pangea Information Technologies and they began work on this effort in 2004. Pangea has now completed an April 21, 2004 dated "Needs Assessment" document, a May 10, 2004 dated "Resource Inventory" report describing WRAP data sources and organizations to display multiple sources of information. From these two documents, they now have completed a May 12, 2004 draft "Geospatial Information Management Strategy and Implementation Recommendations" report. The next step is for WRAP stakeholders to review the Resource Inventory and the Recommendations reports, and provide comments by June 18th this year. Then the TOC will debate and reach conclusions on how to proceed with the project.

Finally, the TOC considered the appointment of two Technical Co-Chairs; Mike Edwards for the DEJF & Darla Potter for the FEJF. Meeting participants approved these appointments. If I receive no adverse comments from the balance of the TOC who weren't able to attend the San Francisco meeting by the response date on these DRAFT minutes, the appointments will become official.

Thank you for you interest in WRAP TOC activities.

Lee Gribovicz, WRAP TOC Co-Chair
Regional Air Quality Impacts & Emission Inventory Coordinator
Wyoming DEQ, Air Quality Division
250 Lincoln Street
Lander, Wyoming 82520
Phone Number: (307) 332-6755
Fax Number: (307) 332-7726
E-Mail: Lee Gribovicz