RPO National Technical Workgroup Meeting

St. Louis, MO

November 4-6, 2003

Theme: Integration

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Original Agenda (Revised October 25, 2003)			Agenda Revisions Made at Meeting
DAY 1 B Tuesday, November 4, 2003
12 B 1	Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-On Training (PCs and trainers also available during the course of the meeting) Director=s Row 46, 4^th Floor
1 B 1:30	PLENARY SESSION	Promenade Ballroom D, 2^nd Floor
	Welcome and Logistics	RPO Directors and Bill Beal
	Goals of the Meeting	Discussion Group Leaders
	VIEWS & CATTS training announcement	McClure/Husar (10 minutes)	CATT and FASTNET Introduction VIEWS Introduction
1:30 B 4:30	Discussion Groups Meeting (based on the following agenda):
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS		St. Louis Ballroom H, 4^th Floor
1:30 B 1:45	Welcome & agenda overview Introductions (around the room)	Pitchford & Poirot
1:45 B 3:00	RPO data/monitoring overviews (15 min/RPO)	Each RPO Rep.	RPO Data/monitoring overviews (15 min/RPO)	Marc Pitchford Rich Poirot Scott Reynolds Ray Bishop Donna Kenski
3:15 B 3:40	CENRAP KS satellite super site monitoring	Jay Turner
3:40 B 4:00	Midwest RPO ion study	Donna Kenski	**Presentation part of MRPO update
3:00 B 4:30	IMPROVE ion study	Jeff Collett
EMISSION INVENTORY		St. Louis Ballroom G, 4^th Floor
	Welcome and Agenda Overview
	Introductions
	RPO Discussion/Consensus Session B	Moderators: Laura Boothe and Tom Moore
	8-9 projects, each for 25-30-minute in-depth presentations/discussion
	$ WRAP Windblown Dust Model development project $ WRAP Ammonia EI Improvement project $ WRAP Point/Area Chemical Speciation/Temporal Allocation Profile Improvement project $ MWRPO CEM/EGU analysis $ MWRPO NH3 Temporal Work/Ammonia Model Project $ MWRPO Nonroad Project (vessels, motorboats, ag, const, Rrs) $ MWRPO Area Source EI Methods Comparison project $ MWRPO IPM Review project $ VISTAS states 2002 inventory compared to 99 NEI		$ WRAP Windblown Dust EI $ EPA/EIIP Windblown Dust $ WRAP Point/Area Chemistry/Temporal Profiles QA $ MWRPO CEM/EGU Analysis $ EPA Commitment to reformat CEM/EGU data $ MWRPO Nonroad $ MWRPO Area Source EI Methods $ EPA Area Source Calculations for 2002 NEI $ MANE-VU Residential Wood Combustion Survey	Ralph Morris Tom Pace Tom Moore Mark Janssen Marc Houyoux Mark Janssen Mark Janssen Pat Brewer Megan Schuster
Photochemical and Meteorological MODELING		St. Louis Ballroom F, 4^th Floor
1:30	CENRAP Update		Calvin Ku
1:45	MANE-VU Update
2:00	MIDWEST RPO Update		Kirk Baker
2:15	VISTAS Update		Sheila Holman
2:30	WRAP Update		John Vimont
3:00	Review last year=s work and goals for this meeting	Chad Daniel
3:30	EPA Modeling Guidance Update	Brian Timin
4:00	RPO Grant Guidance Review	Rosalina Rodriguez
PLENARY SESSION		Promenade D, 2^nd Floor
4:30 B 5:30	Session on PM Forecasting hosted by Monitoring & Data Analysis Group and open to all	Jim Szykman
5:30	ADJOURN
4:30 B 6:30	Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-on Training	Director=s Row 46, 4^th Floor
DAY 2 B Wednesday, November 5, 2003
7:30 B 8:30	Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-On Training	Director=s Row 46, 4^th Floor
8:30 B 11:30 Discussion Groups (based on the following agenda):
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS		St. Louis Ballroom H, 4^th Floor
8:30 B 9:30	Causes of Haze Assessment (WRAP/CENRAP)	Mark Green	Dave DuBois
9:00 B 9:30	SEARCH & VISTAS special studies	Eric Edgerton
9:30 B 9:50	Northeastern Monitoring Studies	George Allen
10:00 B 10:30	Ohio University Database & Analytical Tool	Kevin Crist	Kevin Crist and Charlie Crawford
10:30 B 11:15	VIEWS update and Plans	Shawn McClure
11:15 B 11:30	Group Discussion B Opportunities for Coordination	Rich Poirot	Postponed until 11/6
EMISSION INVENTORY		St. Louis Ballroom G, 4^th Floor
Status Report on 2002 National Wildfire EI Projects		Pete Lahm, USFS & WRAP	EPA Briefing	David Misenheimer
General fire EI discussion		Pete Lahm, USFS & WRAP	NEISGEI Overview	Stefan Falke
Midwest RPO Fire Emissions Project		Mark Janssen, Midwest RPO	RPO Virtual Inventories Inventory Schedules	Mark Janssen/Tom Moore
VISTAS Fire Emissions Project		Greg Stella, VISTAS	EI Projection Issues	Greg Stella
EPA Fire Emissions Work		Tom Pace, OAQPS	EPA plans/projects Soil Ammonia Presentation	Marc Houyoux Tom Pace
Questions for EPA: Haze SIP EI Requirements and Discussion		Tom Moore, WRAP	Fire Emissions Projects
	$ Coordination of consistent EI methods with EPA regions across RPO regions $ Clear Guidance on the use of Transport fractions $ Clear Guidance on reconciliation of modeling versus SIP inventories $ Specific list of area/nonroad categories to include $ Finalization of new Motor Vehicle NH3 emission factor $ Requirement for use of CEM versus State EGU inventory		$ MWRPO Fire $ VISTAS Fire $ EPA Fire $ Fire Data Bases	Mark Janssen Pat Brewer Tom Pace Stefan Falke
EPA briefing on:		Phil Lorang
	$ How the 2001 CERR is incorporated into 2002 NEI $ How the 2002 Ainterim@ NEI will be grown from the 1999 NEI $ How state data will incorporate state/tribal data splits into 2002 NEI
Photochemical and Meteorological MODELING		St. Louis Ballroom F, 4^th Floor	Changed location to St. Louis Ballroom E, 4^th Floor
8:30	CAMx4 Model Performance at Super Sites/Grid Resolution	Kirk Baker
9:00	Model Performance Evaluation Tool	CENRAP	Betty Pun
9:30	Synthesized REMSAD modeling (BRAVO)	John Vimont
10:00	VISTAS CMAQ Sensitivity Applications	Jim Boylan
10:30	Recent WRAP Modeling	WRAP
11:00	Application of CMAQ to assess particulate matter using two chemistry modules	Gopal Sistla	Cancelled
11:30 B 1:00	LUNCH and training room available for VIEWS/CATTS Hands-On Training	Director=s Row 46, 4^th Floor
1:00 B 2:30	PLENARY SESSION	St. Louis Ballroom H, 4^th Floor
	Update on Natural Background Guidance	Neil Frank	Guidance for Estimating Natural Visibility Conditions Under the Regional Haze Rule Tracking Progress Under the Regional Haze Rule
	Presentation on Natural Background	Dan Jacob
	Data Analysis for Transport Rule	Doug Solomon	Fred Dimmick
15 min.	BREAK
2:45 B 5:30	Discussion Groups Meeting (based on the following agenda):
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS		St. Louis Ballroom H, 4^th Floor
2:45 B 3:15	Aerosol extinction methodology assessment	Doug Lowenthal
3:14 B 3:45	Comparison from co-located IMPROVE/STN sites	Dennis Crumpler
4:00 B 4:15	Update on Las Vegas Toxic Metals Workshop	George Allen
4:15 B 4:30	Update on RPO & EPA Fire Emissions Systems	Tom Moore
4:30 B 5:00	Updates on new multi-RPO initiatives (Natural Haze Sensitivity Assessment, CATT, FASTNET)	Poirot/Pitchford	Included in Husar discussion
5:00 B 5:30	Uses of non-standard data for haze analysis	Rudy Husar
EMISSION INVENTORY & MODELING (Joint Session) Timelines for Inventory Development OPEM, Ammonia Model Emissions sensitivity related modeled runs		St. Louis Ballroom E, 4^th Floor	JOINT SESSION $ OPEM $ Ammonia and WB Dust EI projects $ Projections of Visibility Improvement and modeling sensitivity analysis $ SMOKE Improvement Discussion Items $ Inter-RPO timing, coordination, and deliverables $ Use of Dust Transport Fractions	Mark Janssen Ralph Morris Ralph Morris Kirk Baker Marc Houyoux
			EMISSION INVENTORY Fire Emissions Projects $ National Wildfire EI	Pete Lahm
5:30	ADJOURN
DAY 3 B Thursday, November 6, 2003
7:30 B 8:30	Training room available for VIEWS/CATT Hands-On Training	Director=s Row 46
8:30 B 12:30	Discussion Groups Meeting (based on the following agendas):
MONITORING and DATA ANALYSIS		St. Louis Ballroom H, 4^th Floor
8:30 B 9:15	Discussion of Monitoring & Data Analysis & Schedules in RPO Grant Guidance	Pitchford & Rodriguez
9:15 B 10:00	Discussion of opportunities for integration of RPO Data Analysis Activities (VIEWS, CATT, FASTNET, Modeling, etc)	Poirot and all
10:30 B 11:00	Updates from EI & Modeling Groups	TBA	Cancelled
11:00 B 11:45	Discussion for Opportunities for Coordinating Integration of Future RPO/EPA/IMPROVE Monitoring Activities	Collett/Allen/All
11:45 B 12:30	Discussion of next years workgroup process, co-chairs, etc., and any unfinished business	Poirot/Pitchford/All
EMISSION INVENTORY		St. Louis Ballroom G, 4^th Floor
Ideas for tracking and registry of inventories B Methods to exchange the data and maintain version control of inventories, including prospective schedule for keeping in touch as EIs are revised B Tom Moore and Mark Janssen (Combined schedule of major EI milestones for each RPO B Tom drafting. Review of minimum quality assurance needs and website formats for emissions data exchange B Mark drafting.)			$ Electric Utility Growth Methodology Review $ Building a Better Ammonia NEI $ Revision of the NEI of Ammonia from Animal Husbandry $ Emission Modeling Survey Results $ AGrill Phil@ Questions for EPA $ Closeout	Mark Janssen Mark Janssen Marc Houyoux Marc Houyoux All Tom Moore
EPA Projection Issues B Pat Brewer B open discussion, brainstorming
Emissions Closeout Session B Laura and Tom - Discussion of cooperative projects/combining resources, review remaining issues, selection of next year=s workgroup co-chairs
MODELING	Plans for next year	St. Louis Ballroom F, 4^th Floor
8:30	Selection of next years co-chairs
9:00	MM5 Sensitivity Analysis Applications (VISTAS)		Mike Abraczinskas
10:00	Meteorological Modeling Issues Discussion		Kirk Baker Mike Abraczinskas Chad Daniel
10:30	Discuss goals for group for the next year
11:00	Ideas for the next national RPO technical meeting
12:30	ADJOURN