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AGENDA
Sheraton Gateway Suites (Chicago O’Hare Airport)
6501 N. Mannheim Road
Rosemont, Illinois 60018
June 2
10:00am CDT Welcome and Introductions
Overview
of project (Phase III) – Hilary Hafner, STI
Lessons learned from Phases I and II
Summary of deliverables
Summary of important messages for policy makers
11:00 Database
preparation (data cleaning, averaging, flagging) –
Mike
McCarthy ,STI
11:30 How good are the data?
• Putting concentrations in perspective (comparison
of MDL, benchmarks, and annual average concentrations – and what this
means to decision makers – Mike
McCarthy ,STI
12:00 Lunch (to be provided)
1:15 What
are air toxics concentration levels nationally and locally? - STI
• Background
concentrations–
Mike McCarthy ,STI
• Spatial
variation –
Sean
Raffuse (part I), Mike McCarthy (part II)
3:00 Break
3:30 What do air toxics data say about the effectiveness of control
programs? - STI
• Temporal
trends – Hilary Hafner (part I), Mike McCarthy (part II)
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Identification of air toxics sources (source apportionment analyses) –
Hilary Hafner
5:00 Adjourn
June 3
8:00 am Community-scale monitoring projects - EPA/State/local presentations
• Cincinnati
– Sergey A. Grinshpun, University of Cincinnati
• Detroit
– Linda Sheldon, USEPA, ORD
• New
York – Nenad Aleksic, NYDEC
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Seattle – Mike Gilroy, Puget Sound CAA
• Summary and action items
10:00 Break
10:30 Example
prescribed analyses, including case studies – Mike
McCarthy, STI
Overview
of data validation tools - STI
• VOCDat software, 1-page summary sheets, key species list,
data summary CD, outline for data analysis workbook, USEPA/CIRA website
(and database)– Hilary Hafner
• Bar chart mapping tool, AMDAS – Sean Raffuse
12:00 Lunch (to be provided)
1:15 Model evaluation results
• ISC
modeling for pilot cities – Neil Wheeler, STI
• CMAQ
modeling for pilot cities – USEPA (Deborah Leucken, USEPA)
2:45 Wrap-up
• Summary
of lessons learned from phase III – Hilary Hafner, STI
• Ideas
for future analyses - STI
• Where
do we go from here? (FY05 funding and plans) – Sharon Nizich, USEPA
• Methods
Development – Joanne Rice, USEPA
3:30 Adjourn
3:30 – 5:00 STI staff will be available for computer demonstrations
of VOCDat, bar chart mapping tool, and USEPA/CIRA website. STI will also
be available to answer questions regarding their data analyses.
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