1. National Monitoring Steering Committee Report
Gordon Pierce
WESTAR Spring Business Meeting
San Francisco, CA
May 22, 2013

2. Funding Sequester will have impacts
No Community-Scale grants planned for this year
Funds pulled for near-road NO2
NATTS funding will continue at same level
No funding for NOx/SOx secondary NAAQS pilot studies
Concerns from states on grant process and the length of time that actually have to spend funds, especially when funds are late in being transmitted

3. Community/Citizen Monitoring
2nd workshop held at RTP in March 2013
Lot of new technologies upcoming
Small
Easy to use
Some have good accuracy/quality
Data readily available via internet
Need better coordination on sensor apps
Need better communication with communities
Desire to develop a resource webpage as a clearinghouse for sensors, technologies, specs/performance, sampling info, FAQs, data, etc.

4. Future of CSN and IMPROVE
PM2.5 Speciation and IMPROVE networks not sustainable with current funding and increasing lab costs
Number of conference calls with IMPROVE on possible cuts…some made already…more to come?
With CSN:
EPA is doing some assessments on data and networks
Looking at sampler upgrades to reduce personnel costs
Looking at lab cost options

5. PAMS Re-engineering EPA still looking at changing the PAMS network
Reduce number of sites
Add PAMS in ozone non-attainment areas
26 “Required” sites
O3, NOx, VOC’s (via Auto-GC for 27+ compounds)
Upper air met?
Some “flexible/secondary” sites
O3, NOx
Auto-GC shootout will occur
Data analysis work, including updating tools
Propose changes with upcoming ozone NAAQS

6. National Air Toxics Trends Stations
First multi-year assessment report released vs
Next one in 2013
Overall, a decreasing trend for a number of air toxics
Data very useful for NATA modeling validation, trends and health risk benchmarks
NATTS Technical Assistance Document needs revision, but is a big task
Some Data Quality Objectives need to be adjusted
Cr+6 will be dropped as a core compound

7. CASTNET All 2012 PE audits were performed
TSAs performed for both lab and field operations
All ozone analyzers are “regulatory”
Since 2011
All data going into AQS
Can/will be used for designations
EPA starting monthly calls with Regional Offices
Need to include states
Need to improve communications in general
EPA will start informing states of high ozone values on CASTNET monitors

8. Airport Pb 19 airports with > 0.5 TPY estimated Pb emissions
Most monitoring shows low concentrations
4 have values > 50% of the NAAQS (all in CA)
2 of the 4 exceed the NAAQS
Endangerment findings likely
Monitoring has been problematic as:
Can’t get a good max concentration location
Questions on what is ambient air…runway vs. fenceline
Many sites likely to close as meet the NAAQS

9. Next MSC meeting June 19-20, 2013 in Vermont
Questions?