MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL AIR MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Emissions Inventory Improvement Program (EIIP) Residential Wood Combustion Coordination Project

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OMNI Consulting Services, Inc. working under contract for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association (MARAMA), has prepared this website as an information resource for state, local and regional organizations that are planning or conducting residential wood combustion (RWC) surveys. Surveying is the method preferred by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for data collection in the development of RWC emissions inventories. As part of this work, OMNI conducted a national search to identify U.S. RWC surveys and coordinated a conference call with an expert forum on the subject of RWC survey methodology. It is hoped that this work will provide information to improve RWC emissions inventories. This website contains a general discussion on survey preparation as well as specific recommendations for RWC survey contents.

Unfortunately, many RWC surveys, including some of those listed on this website, have been conducted for reasons other than emissions inventory development and it has been difficult to derive emissions inventory values from these surveys. In addition, there are many subtleties associated with RWC that require careful survey design. Moreover, many parts of the country have never been surveyed. Included on this website is a compilation of all the identified RWC surveys conducted since 1981. For the surveys conducted in the last ten years contact information has been provided along with the survey sample size and survey area population.