Regional Haze

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MARAMA is cooperating with NESCAUM and the OTC to provide staff support to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regional Planning Organization (MANE-VU). MANE-VU is an organization of states and tribes working together to improve visibility and implement the requirements of EPA's regional haze rule.

Section 16.9A of the Clean Air Act requires the "prevention of any future, and the remedying of any existing, impairment of visibility in Class I areas which impairment results from manmade air pollution."  Class I areas are national parks exceeding 6000 acres, wilderness areas and national memorial parks exceeding 5000 acres, and all international parks in existence on August 7, 1977.  There are 156 Class I areas in the U.S., including seven in the MANE-VU region:

• Acadia National Park
• Brigantine Wildlife Refuge
• Great Gulf Wilderness Area
• Lye Brook Wilderness Area
• Moosehorn Wildlife Refuge
• Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness Area
• Roosevelt-Campobello International Park

• Reasonable Progress Goals Project Webpage

Emissions Inventory Projects

Residential Wood Combustion Project

MANE-VU Regional Haze SIP Planning

• Comparison of CAIR and CAIR+ Proposal using the Integrated Planning Model (IPM®)
  
  
  • Final Draft Report - May 30, 2007 (PDF Format)
    • Summary of and response to Stakeholder Comments - August 2, 2007 (PDF Format)
  • Fact Sheet - June 5, 2007 (PDF Format)
    
    
• Source Apportionment Analysis of Air Quality Monitoring Data - Phase II

• Source Apportionment Analysis of IMPROVE and Castnet Data - Phase I
  
  
  • Final Report - May 2002 (PDF format)
  • Fact Sheet - September 2003 (PDF format)
    
    
• Combined Aerosol/Trajectory Database Tool
  
  
  • Fact Sheet - February 2005 (PDF format)
    
    
• Open Burning in Residential Areas, Emissions Inventory Development Report - Please contact MARAMA with any questions.

• Final Report - January 2004 (PDF format)
• Emissions Database - January 2004 (MS Access format)
• NIF Database - February 2004 (MS Access format)
• Fact Sheet - September 2003 (PDF format)


• Residential Wood Combustion and Open Burning Survey and Work Plan Development
  
  
  • Final Report - July 2001 Work Plan for a Survey to Determine Residential Wood Combustion Activity and Open Burning Activity (PDF format)
  • Fact Sheet - July 2001 (MS Word format)
    

• National RPO Meeting, St. Louis - November 4-6, 2003
• Sources of Fine Particle Concentration and Composition in Northern Vermont - September, 2000 (PDF Format)
• Overview of Regional Haze Program - April, 2000, Denny Lohman, Region III EPA (PDF format)

• Q&A from the 2001 MANE-VU Communications Meeting in Philadelphia, PA - January 9-10, 2005 (PDF Format)

• MANE-VU members (exit MARAMA)
• MANE-VU Technical Committee members (exit MARAMA)

Updated: 08/03/07