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WESTAR Technical Committee Report WESTAR Spring Business Meeting 22 – 23 May 2013, San Francisco, CA Clint Bowman & Phil Allen, Co-Chairs.

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1 WESTAR Technical Committee Report WESTAR Spring Business Meeting 22 – 23 May 2013, San Francisco, CA Clint Bowman & Phil Allen, Co-Chairs

2 Review of Past Six Months Coordination Comments Training Studies Information/Discussion

3 Coordination Review of Past Six Months Reviewed and discussed WEB-based air quality data  Most states use commercial products  Some have peak rates of nearly one million per month  MesoWest interested in being regional aggregator Inter-state coordination of wildfire information

4 Coordination Review of Past Six Months Possible WESTAR clearinghouse for exceptional events:  Ozone intrusions  Wildfire-related events  Regional source produced events Continued discussion of the 1-hour SO2 NAAQS  Responses to the 120-day letter for 1-hour SO2  State responses in unclassifiable areas Making maps (WA) Waiting (Others)

5 Coordination Review of Past Six Months Further discussion of ozone events  Templates and clearinghouses  Types of exceptional events (dust, wildfires, Asian)  Characteristics of each  Value of an ongoing database  WestJumpAQMS – WRAP

6 1-hour NO2 letter Comments on Chet Wayland's reply to WESTAR's comments on the NO2 NAAQS Comments Review of Past Six Months

7 Training Review of Past Six Months Late April 2013 NASA satellite training workshop in Salt Lake City Announced Western states workshop—2nd week of July 2013 in Boulder, CO HY-SPLIT training in the West Not in budget

8 M ODELING VERTICAL CYLINDERS ( TANKS ) Utah report on oil and gas emissions in Unitah Basin Oregon DEQ residential wood heating (RWH) survey  Potential collaboration with Washington and Idaho  SCRAM and Linux distributions Studies Review of Past Six Months

9 Information/Discussion Review of Past Six Months Review and discussion of the 2013 EPA Regional/State/Local Modelers' Workshop  General accolades for developing a matrix of topics to direct OAQPS efforts Discussed implications of the DC Court Decision  Impact of the revocation of the SILs and SMCs  Impact on air quality analyses for PSD

10 Information/Discussion Review of Past Six Months Discussion of implications on air quality modeling of the proposed QMP/QAPP rules New wording could include permit modeling Update on the status of IMPROVE budget cuts Many Western states rely on IMPROVE data

11 Information/Discussion Review of Past Six Months Continued discussion of the Draft Guidance for PM2.5 Permit Modeling  Importance of precursors  Need for tools to evaluate impacts of precursors  Background concentrations

12 Looking Ahead The Next Six Months Continue to follow the evolving PM2.5 Guidance  Special emphasis on secondaries and background concentrations Review and comment on OAQPS's workload matrix Continue to review the evolving 1-hour SO2 landscape Other as directed by WESTAR or events


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