WESTAR Staff Reports Technical Coordinator Regional Haze Planning Training

Technical Coordinator Report WESTAR Committee Support  Mobile Sources  Sources  Technical  Fuels for Schools  Planning  Wildland Fire Policy Technical Conference

Regional Haze Planning Report  General-WRAP  Almost all technical projects are essentially finished for SIP submittals  TSS – continued refinement – individual state examples of RPGs  Final Reasonable Progress modeling awaits state BART determinations  309 SO2 milestone proposal finalized

Regional Haze Planning Report  State Planning Activities Underway  309 resubmittals – Public processes in next few months  BART determinations – Most states still working  Reasonable Progress/Long-term Strategies – Parallel processing with BART

Regional Haze Planning Report  Air Managers Committee  Implementation Work Group Bimonthly Conference Calls (every two months)  Working more directly with WRAP staff  RH tech support Cost Comparison Survey  Tracking state RH planning progress  Staffing WESTAR/WRAP coordination, funding issues

Training Program Report FFY2008:  $367,500 Funding  Will Offer Courses  Training Conducted in 11 States  Staff Trained Course Update  Update Quality Assurance for Air Pollution Measurement Systems (APTI 470)

Training Program Report FFY2009:  $367,500 in Funding  Assured Same Level of Funding Thru FFY2011  Approved by NACAA Board  Work-Plan Due in May