1. Air Update, Georgia EPD Karen Hays Chief, Air Protection Branch
AWMA Georgia Chapter
April 11, 2019

2. Air Protection Branch website https://epd.georgia.gov/air/

3. Changes in the air protection branch
Administrative and Communications Program
Ambient Monitoring Program
Mobile and Area Source Program
Planning and Support Program
Stationary Source Compliance Program
Stationary Source Permitting Program
Radiation Protection Program

4. NOx Emission TRENDS

5. SO2 Emission TRENDS

6. Toxic release inventory (TRI) data for Georgia

7. 20 Metro Atlanta Counties Bibb County 1 Partial North Georgia County
4/23/2019
20 Metro Atlanta Counties
Bibb County
1 Partial North Georgia County
15 Metro Atlanta Counties
7 Metro Atlanta Counties
So what areas in Georgia are in nonattainment?
Even with the stricter standards, Georgia’s air quality continues to improve – as you can see in these maps. But we still have areas in nonattainment for ozone.

8. Recent changes impacting some sources with air quality permits
In 2018, the DNR Board approved changing the major source level to 100 TPY for NOx or VOC in Atlanta, to match requirements in the rest of the state
1995 “once in always” policy reversed by EPA in January 2018

9. US EPA’s Regional Haze RULE
States required to develop State Implementation Plans (SIPs) every 10 years to address emissions that contribute to regional haze, impairing visibility in Class 1 Areas
There are three Class I areas in Georgia
In 2017, EPA issued Regional Haze Rule amendments.
Next due date for Regional Haze SIPs is July 31, 2021.
Focus changed to anthropogenic sources of visibility impairment
Visibility Improvement State and Tribal Association of the Southeast (VISTAS)

10. 18 VISTAS Class I Areas

11. State SIP Development
VISTAS work should be completed this Fall
Preliminary information shows some sources in GA impacting Class 1 Areas
EPA is issuing new guidance on Regional Haze late Spring/early Summer 2019
Questions that remain:
How much impact?
What are the obligations for areas below the uniform rate-of-progress “glide slope”?

12. RPGs and URP at Cohutta
Hypothetical VISTAS II Modeling Results

13. RPGs and URP at OKEFENOKEE
Hypothetical VISTAS II Modeling Results

14. Emission statements and inventories
Point
Area
On-road Mobile
Non-Road Mobile
Marine
Aircraft
Rail
Fires
Biogenics
Submit ES and EI at

15. Current and emerging issues
EPA’s SSM SIP call
Affordable Clean Energy Rule
Risk Management 
Comments on draft permits
7.8 RVP gasoline in Atlanta Metro
EPA’s 2014 National Air Toxics Assessment
Ozone NAAQS and PM2.5 NAAQS (2020?)