UPDATE on Regional Haze Planning Activities in the Northeast

OTC / NESCAUM / MARAMA

(distributed at IMPROVE Steering Committee Meeting, 4/4/01, Davis CA)

• OTC Regional Haze Website: http://www.sso.org/otc/regional_haze/regionalhaze.htm

• NESCAUM Website: http://www.nescaum.org/index.html
  • Visibility: http://www.nescaum.org/committees/haze.html

• MARAMA Website: http://www.marama.org/
  • Visibility: http://www.marama.org/visibility/visibility.html

• Regional Haze and Visibility in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States (NESCAUM) http://216.112.47.124/regionalhaze/Final_Report.pdf

• Assessment of Emissions Inventory Needs for Regional Haze Plans (PES) http://www.marama.org/visibility/finalrpt.pdf

• Ammonia Emissions Inventory Project (Carnegie Mellon) http://www.marama.org/rt_center/nh3inventory.html

• Source Characterization and Emissions Inventory Development for Residential Wood Combustion and Open Burning (Pechan) http://www.marama.org/contracts/RH-CombustionEI-RFP.doc (download file)

• Source Apportionment Analysis of Air Quality Monitoring Data (Battelle) (Receptor Modeling of Northeastern IMPROVE Sites, may be expanded by LADCO to include Midwest CASTNet sites) http://www.marama.org/contracts/RH-DataAnalysis-RFP.doc (download file)

• Sources of Fine Particle Concentration and Composition in Northern Vermont http://capita.wustl.edu/neardat/reports/TechnicalReports/ReceptorModels/awmatoxRP.pdf

• Receptor Modeling of Brigantine NJ IMPROVE Aerosol Data http://capita.wustl.edu/NEARDAT/Reports/Brigantine/index.htm

• Ammonia Inventory Training, March 29, 2001, Philadelphia, PA (Carnegie Mellon)

• LADCO/NESCAUM/MARAMA/NPS Regional Haze Trajectory Modeling Workshop, May 8, 2001, Chicago, IL

• MARAMA-NESCAUM-OTC Regional Haze Meeting: Regional Fine Particle and Visibility Modeling and RPO Workshop, April 26-27, 2001, Columbia, MD

• NESCAUM currently working on analysis of (internal & external) BART-eligible sources affecting visibility in Northeast OTR Class I areas