1. Timelines — NAAQS, SIP & Regional Haze
WESTAR Spring 2012 Business Meeting
Doug Schneider
Washington State Department of Ecology

3. What’s on the chart? NAAQS–SIP timelines
Through 2015
Partial series for current NAAQS (24-hour PM2.5, O3, NO2 and SO2)
2012–2019
Complete series of NAAQS and SIP requirements
Starting in 2017
Next series of NAAQS and SIP requirements
Regional Haze SIP requirements

4. Major Actions and SIP Requirements
EPA
NAAQS proposal/promulgation grid-square pairs
Designations
States
Recommendations for Designations
110(a)(2) Infrastructure SIPs
(110)(a)(2)(D)(1) Transport SIPs
Attainment Plans

5. Strengths Shows how major requirements and actions line up
Provides a big picture view of potential workload

6. Weaknesses NAAQS do not impact states equally
Not all NAAQS require the same level of effort
Timelines depend upon current information and are subject to change
Not shown: State comment period on proposed NAAQS

7. A practical example Due Mid-2018 In Progress Resource Question
2018 Regional Haze Control SIP
PM2.5 Attainment Plan
In Progress
Moderate O3 Attainment Plan
Resource Question
Do these involve the same planners…inventory specialists…air quality engineers…modelers…rule writers? ,

9. Questions?
Doug Schneider