1. WESTAR Planning Committee
Committee Update
Spring Business Meeting 2008
Park City, Utah
Dave McNeill, Utah

2. WESTAR Planning Committee Purpose
Identify air quality issues that have a direct impact on western states
Ensure western concerns are considered in the national debate

3. Committee Activities
Monthly phone meetings (First Thursday at 2 PM Mountain)
Priority issues we are addressing:
State Role in Revisions to Prescribed and Wildland Fire Policy
Final Policy out for comment “soon”
Regional Haze Plan Development/Completion
Natural / Exceptional Event Rule Implementation
Relation of Exceptional Events Rule to SIPs

4. Should This Be a Nonattainment Area?

5. Committee Activities (Cont’d)
PM2.5 Designations / Implementation
Regional / State Topics
Rural Air Issues – i.e. ozone, oil and gas development, mercury, etc.
Ozone Designations / Implementation
2008 Revision of Ozone Standard

6. New Ozone NAAQS 0.075 States in the WESTAR Region
( data)
Counties with at least one ozone monitor
Counties exceeding NAAQS
Counties > 0.070
and < 0.076
Counties with a NPS
ozone monitor
NPS monitors exceeding NAAQS
NPS monitors > and < 0.076
Utah Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Air Quality
April 2, 2008

7. Leadership for Planning Committee
WESTAR Board liaison – Ira Domsky, Arizona
Co-Chairs
Summer 2006
Alice Edwards, Alaska
Cheryl Heying, Utah
May 2007
Doug Schneider, Washington
August 2007
Dave McNeill, Utah
May 2008
Diane Arnst, Arizona (nominated & accepted)