Comparing STN Data from the Liberty and Lawrenceville Monitoring Sites in Allegheny County, PA
Jason Maranche, Allegheny County

State and Local Agency PM2.5 Web Sites in the MARAMA Region,
Alice Lutrey, MARAMA

Update and Discussion of Implementing the National Monitoring Strategy
Tim Hanley, OAQPS and the MARAMA/NESCAUM States

• Status and schedule of the federal rule to implement the National Monitoring Strategy
• What will the new network look like?
  
• What do we hope to learn from trace gas monitoring?
  
• An update on the development of trace gas monitors analyzers
  
• What will S/L agencies have to do to put a network in place?
  
• Implementing the network: The NCore Level 2 pilot program

Update and Discussion of Other Important Air Monitoring Issues
Tim Hanley, OAQPS and the MARAMA/NESCAUM States

• Status and schedule of the new PM standards
  
• Update on and future of the Speciation Trends Network (STN) program
  - Do we need separate urban and rural networks?
  
• The new QA requirements for criteria pollutants: The impact on S/L agencies
  
• PMcoarse monitoring methods - a look into the future
  
• The new Federal Equivalent Method for PM2.5
  
• Managing continuous PM2.5 data in AQS
  
• Exceptional events policy: improving the criteria for flagging data…

Air Toxics

• Update on the National Air Toxics Program
  Tim Hanley, EPA
  
• The Air Toxic Project in Allegheny County
  Jason Maranche, Allegheny County
  
• Airport air toxics monitoring
  Roy Heaton, RI
  
• NJ Community Assessment Grant
  Linda Bonanno, NJ
  
• The Vermont experience with Chrome VI
  George Apgar
• Notes on Chrome +6 Sampling Issues
  Roy Heaton, RI

Discussion: Is the Chrome VI Method ready?
Discussion Continued - NATTs Metals Analysis: HCl no longer needed for digestion now that chrome is off the target list. This allows arsenic to be done in the same analysis as other metals….

Analyzing STN and IMPROVE Data in the MARAMA and NESCAUM Regions

• An analysis of data from collocated STN monitors
  Tom McKenna, NJ
• Analyzing STN data in the MARAMA Region
  Bill Gillespie, MARAMA
• Screening/Validating STN data
  Paul Sierzenga, NY
• STN/IMPROVE data differences at Pinnacle State Park, NY
  George Allen, NESCAUM
• UNMIX results for the MANE-VU region, summer 2002
  Rich Poirot, VT
• Recent source apportionment analyses and understanding differences in STN and IMPROVE data
  Dr. Eugene Kim, Clarkson University
• Discussion:
  o How can we or should we estimate the "urban excess?"
  o Auditing IMPROVE flow rates: Who will do this?

PM2.5 and Regional Haze Monitoring  

• FDMS TEOM/BAM field studies (New York Supersite winter intensive)
  Dirk Felton, NY DEC
• Pennsylvania field studies comparing BAM, FDMS and FRM monitors program
  George Mentzer, PA DEP
• Efforts to adjust continuous PM2.5 data to ensure regional consistency in the NESCAUM Region
  George Allen, NESCAUM

Practical Experiences Operating Rural Aerosol Intensive Network (RAIN) Sites

• Piney Run MD, Dave Krask, MD
  
• Mohawk Mountain, CT, Pete Babich, CT
  
• Acadia National Park, ME, Jeff Emery, ME

A "First Look" at Rural Aerosol Intensive Network (RAIN) Data
George Allen, NESCAUM

Training Environmental Statisticians - Tomorrow's Problem Solvers
William F. Hunt, Jr., North Carolina State University

• An Analysis of North Carolina PM2.5 Nonattainment Areas
  
• Validating the Emission Inventory for Houston, TX Using PAMS data