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Important Documents
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Materials from the Monitoring Steering Committee meetings in Chicago -
Speciation Analysis to Support PM NAAQS Implementation (November 15,
2005)
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Materials from the
Monitoring Steering Committee meetings in Chicago - A summary of the notice of
proposed rulemaking that will revise the Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations
(also known as the Implementation Rule for the National Monitoring Strategy)
(November 15, 2005)
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Materials from the
Monitoring Steering Committee meetings in Chicago - A memorandum on special
purpose monitors (the basis for some changes in the regulation regarding the
uses for this data that will be reflected in the new rule) (November 15,
2005)
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Materials
from the Monitoring Steering Committee meetings in Chicago - A handout on
Funding Issues (November 15, 2005)
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Materials from the Monitoring
Steering Committee meetings in Chicago - A short presentation on Air Toxics
Monitoring (November 15, 2005)
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Materials from
the Monitoring Steering Committee meetings in Chicago - The PAMS Presentation
given by Charlie Pietarinen of New Jersey (November 15, 2005)
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Materials from the Monitoring
Steering Committee meetings in Chicago - Materials from the
ESAR and AQS presentation given by
Mike Gilroy of Puget Sound, WA
(November 15, 2005)
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Materials from the Monitoring Steering Committee meetings in Chicago -
Meeting Agenda (November 15, 2005)
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Materials from the
Monitoring Steering Committee meetings in Chicago - Action Items and Notes
from the October 18 Meeting (November 15, 2005)
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STAPPA/ALAPCO Letter to
EPA on Air Toxic Monitoring Cooperative Agreement Application (September
14, 2005) --
This letter, sent to Peter
Tsirigotis, Director of the OAQPS/EMAD, by the
associations� Monitoring and Monitoring Steering Committees, sets forth the
Committees� suggested criteria for evaluating applications for air toxics
monitoring cooperative agreement applications.
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1999 National-Scale Air
Toxics Assessment (September 13, 2005)� EPA�s
Draft Fact Sheet and
Powerpoint Presentation
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EPA's List of
Speciation Monitoring Sites (August 5, 2005) --
Click here for an up-to-date
list of the 54 trends monitoring sites.
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Preliminary Allocations of PM2.5 Monitoring Funds
(August 5, 2005) -- These two spreadsheets document the preliminary
allocations of PM2.5 monitoring funds given in Table A-2 of the FY2006
program and grant guidance. The
first spreadsheet contains the Region-by-Region assumptions about PM2.5
monitoring activities and pricing factors used to develop the preliminary
allocations of PM2.5 monitoring funds by Region that are given in Table A-2
of the Final FY2006 program and grant guidance issued in April 2005. Each
Regional Office air monitoring program manager has received a similar table
that also shows the state-level assumptions.
The second spreadsheet
[link to PM Speciation Assessment Summary] contains three tables related
just to PM2.5 speciation activity. The first table is a list of all
currently operating PM2.5 speciation sites. The second table lists 193 sites
that were identified as high value sites and that we believe should continue
operation in FY2006 unless factors not yet considered indicate otherwise.
The third table contains a list of 48 sites that were identified as lower
value sites which OAQPS believes can be shut down in FY2006 unless factors
not yet considered indicate otherwise.
Click here
for a detailed explanation of these materials.
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Presentation on STN
Monitoring Network Modification (August 2, 2005) -- This is the revised
version of the EPA presentation on the rationale for activities associated
with EPA's efforts to harmonize the STN and IMPROVE monitoring networks.
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STAPPA/ALAPCO
Spring Membership Meeting Presentations (June 1, 2005)
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EPA Presentation on the
Planned Reductions in the Speciation Monitoring Network (April 29, 2005)
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EPA�s
Tentative Decision-Making on the Speciation Network Design (April 20,
2005)
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EPA
Needs to Fulfill Its Designated Responsibilities to Ensure Effective
BioWatch Program (March 25, 2005 ) -- This report on EPA's role in the
Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program concludes that EPA should
better ensure that sampling activities of state and local agencies comply
with quality assurance guidance. EPA is also encouraged to assist DHS in
identifying alternative technologies for detecting biological agents and be
prepared to assist with consequence management in the event of a biological
agent release.
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EPA
Inspector General's Report on Air Toxics Monitoring Progress (March 2,
2005) --
This Inspector General�s
report on air toxics monitoring recommends that national toxic trends sites
and local scale monitors be sited in census tracts where the health risks
are greatest. It also recommends increased methods development for analysis
of ambient air toxics concentrations.
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EPA's Inspector General Report on EPA' s PM2.5 Monitoring (February 11,
2005) -- This report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General concludes
that EPA should increase its research on technologies that can more fully
identify the chemical make-up of PM2.5 and account for the atmospheric
impacts on PM2.5. To that end, the report advocates that EPA �develop
improved continuous speciation monitors."
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Through-the-Probe
Audits Presentation (February 7, 2005) --This presentation on
through-the-probe audits was delivered by Michael Miguel of the California
Air Resources Board on the monthly Monitoring Committee call on February 2,
2005.
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STAPPA/ALAPCO Memo to EPA on Air Toxics
Monitoring Grant Fund (January 24, 2005) -- This memorandum was sent to
Peter Tsirigotis of EPA/OAQPS from the STAPPA/ALAPCO Monitoring Steering
Committee. It sets forth the Committee�s approaches for the best use of air
toxics grant funds.
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Air Quality
Management Workgroup Draft Recommendations (January 5, 2005) --
This is the near-final
draft of the recommendations of the Science and Technology Subcommittee of
the CAAAC Air Quality Management Work Group that was formed for the purpose
of responding to the National Academy of Sciences report on Air Quality
Management released in summer 2004. The Subcommittee is headed by Mike
Koerber of LADCO and Peter Tsirogotis of OAQPS.
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Update of ORD Research
Activities Related to Ambient Air Monitoring (January 5, 2005) --
This presentation on
research and development in the monitoring area, was given by Tim Watkins of
the OAQPS Office of Research and Development (ORD) in the January 2005
monthly monitoring call.
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CAAAC Science
and Technology Sub-group List (November 9, 2004) --
The CAAAC Science &
Technology Subcommittee members are listed here. The group, which is
charged with recommending ways to improve and strengthen the science of the
Clean Air Act, is headed by Peter Tsirigotis and Mike Koerber.
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STAPPA/ALAPCO Fall
2004 Membership Meeting Presentations (October 29, 2004)
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�Policy--Relevant Lessons Learned from
Phase III Air Toxics Analysis� (October 20, 2004) -- This White
Paper from Sonoma Technology summarizes the work done by Sonoma
Technology in conjunction with LADCO on air toxics analysis.
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STAPPA/ALAPCO Letter to EPA
on Air Toxics Monitoring Fund Distribution ( October 4, 2004) -- This
letter was sent to EPA�s Steve Page urging that EPA distribute the $6.2
earmarked for air toxics monitoring to the EPA regional offices for
distribution to the state and local agencies in a collaborative process
rather than through a competitive grant system.
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Summary of Major
Changes to 40 CFR Part 58 Appendix A ( September 3, 2004) -- This is a
summary of the new Quality Assurance regulations found at 40 CFR Part 58
Appendix A that EPA discussed in the Monitoring Committee call September 1,
2004.
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Multi-Site Performance Evaluations of Candidate Methodologies for
Determining Coarse Particulate Matter (PMc) Concentrations (August 27,
2004) -- This document relates to the CASAC Ambient Air Monitoring & Methods
Subcommittee work on evaluating methodologies for measuring PM Coarse
Particulate Matter.
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Data
Quality Objective Development for the Coarse Particulate Matter (PMc) Standard
(August 27, 2004) -- This document relates to the CASAC Ambient Air Monitoring &
Methods Subcommittee work on evaluating methodologies for measuring PM Coarse
Particulate Matter.
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Policy-Relevant Lessons
Learned From Phase III Air Toxics Analysis (August 10, 2004) --
Here is the paper on "lessons learned" from
the Sonoma Technology, Inc. air toxics data analysis project. Mike Koerber
of LADCO worked with Sonoma on the data analysis.
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Policy and
Planning Subgroup Conference Call Materials
(July 20, 2004) -- The Policy and Planning Subgroup of the CAAAC Air Quality
Management Work Group is chaired by Lydia Wegman (EPA) and David Shaw (NY).
These materials were transmitted to this 15-member subgroup for a conference
call held July 14, 2004. They include: the
Policy and Planning
Group Draft Work Plan ; selected
Findings of the NAS
Committee on Air Quality�Regional and National strategies ;
Key Ecosystem Recommendations
; a list of the members of
the Policy and Planning Subgroup ; and a
SIP Concept Paper.
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Air Quality
Management in the United States (July 20, 2004) --
This National Academy of Sciences report was released in January 2004 by the
Committee on Air Quality Management of the National Research Council. The report
examines the role of science and technology in the implementation of the Clean
Air Act. It is presently being used as the basis for examination and evaluation
of the SIP process by the CAAAC Air Quality Management Work Group led by Greg
Greene of EPA and Janet McCabe, Director of the Indiana Department of
Environmental Management.
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Presentation on the
Glacier, Montana IMPROVE sites meeting (July 12, 2004)-- This presentation
was given to the Committee in its monthly conference call on July 7 by Ray
Bishop.
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Advances in Air Quality
Monitoring: Improving Environmental Protection (June 2004) � Brochure
describing changes to the national air quality monitoring network.
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EPA's
Inspector General Questionnaire (July 7, 2004) --
These are the questions asked by the EPA Inspector General's Office in an effort
to ascertain how EPA can assist the state and local agencies with monitoring for
PM2.5 as part of the planning and monitoring effort that will be required in
order to attain the PM2.5 standards. Members of the monitoring committee
discussed and arrived at our responses, although no final document was actually
transmitted to the Inspector General.
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Summary of the St. Louis Community Air
Project (April 23, 2004) -- This Summary describes the nature and purpose of
the project, focusing on the ambient air monitoring that was carried out for two
years in response to residents� health concerns. The study concluded that
chemicals of concern at annual average ambient concentrations greater than human
health-based cancer benchmarks included: formaldehyde, chromium compounds,
arsenic compounds and benzene and acetaldehyde.
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Highlights from Supersites PI Meeting in
Las Vegas, NV, February 25, 26, 2004 (April 23, 2004) --
This summary was drafted by Dr. Rich Scheffe (EPA) and distributed prior to the
March conference call to members of the STAPPA/ALAPCO Monitoring Committee.
Click here
to
view the list of questions, �Science Questions and Proposed Leads�, that was
distributed to participants at the meeting.
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Correlating Federal Reference Method
and Continuous PM2.5 Monitors in the MARAMA Region (March 4,
2004)--
This is the summary of the
report that was discussed in the March 3 Monitoring Committee conference call.
Please note that the first paragraph of the report includes contact information
on how to obtain the entire report.
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EPA OAR Draft FY 2005
Program and Grant Guidance (March 3, 2004) � EPA is seeking comment on the
Office of Air and Radiation�s draft FY 2005 Program and Grant Guidance.
Click here to view the draft
guidance. Click here to view
the draft spreadsheet.
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Information Transfer Survey Results (February 3, 2004) -- These are the
results of the Information Transfer Survey that was undertaken in October 2003.
Click here to view the summary.
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Air Toxics
Monitoring Newsletter (January 22, 2004)
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Presentations from the Air
Monitoring and Quality Assurance Workshop (January 16, 2004)
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EPA�s response to STAPPA and
ALAPCO's October 2, 2003 Comments on the allocation of $10,000,000 to State and
Tribal Assistance Grant funds for air toxics monitoring efforts (January 16,
2004) -- EPA states that it will seek state and local involvement in air toxics
monitoring issues. The attachment to the letter sets forth a rationale for the
community-based monitoring funds ($7 million) available under Section 103 grant
authority: �The emphasis on the subject community assessment projects recognizes
the need to move toward more insightful local/urban scale studies and a desire
to link formally with a series of emerging community assessment programs'
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Draft Air Toxics Monitoring
Strategy (January 16, 2004) -- This document provides extensive background
information for agencies interested in applying for competitive community
assessment grants, as well as provides general background information on the
national air toxics monitoring program. Please provide review comments to Mary
Stewart Douglas at
mstewartdouglas@4cleanair.org by no later than March 15, 2004. A final
version will be prepared by summer of 2004. Also please note that this is a
living document and will be revised as the program matures.
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