1. WESTAR Technical Committee
Committee Update
Spring Business Meeting 2010
Denver, Colorado

2. Purpose of Technical Committee
Identify and discuss air monitoring, modeling and emission inventory issues affecting western states
Share information and issues between western states
If needed raise issues or concerns to the national level

3. Representation Two co-chairs serve 2 years
Momentum increasing after a break in late 2009
Participation in calls is increasing
Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service participate in calls

4. Current Activities
Monthly Conference Calls (4th Wednesday of the month)
Priority issues are:
Revised monitoring standards and resulting monitoring regulations for PM Coarse, Lead, Ozone, SO2 and NO
NCore monitoring site implementation and funding
Funding (or lack thereof) for the above initiatives
2010 EPA Network Assessment due July 1, 2010
NSR (PSD and Non-attainment area) modeling
EPA guidance for PM2.5 and 1-hour NO2 modeling

5. Future Direction Promising
Information sharing between committees – the recent presentation by Colleen Delaney from the Planning Committee of the ozone comment letter was well received
Needed
More involvement from modelers and emission inventory staff is desired. The committee is heavily monitoring driven at this point

6. Technical Committee Leadership
Current Co-Chairs
Mike Ragan, WA
Phil Allen, OR
Past Chair
John Coefield, MT
WESTAR Board Liaison
Stu Clark
WESTAR motivator
Bob Lebens