LADCO 2024 Annual Business Meeting
September 24-27, 2024 Rosemont, IL
OLC Education and Conference Center
9400 W Higgins Rd Ste 100, Rosemont, IL 60018
Schedule and Meeting Links
| Date | Description | Agendas | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, September 25 | Air Directors | Agenda (details) | |
| Thursday, September 26 | Technical Oversight Committee | Agenda (details) | |
| Friday, September 27 | Training Committee | Agenda (details) | Part 1 | Part 2 |
Meeting Details
Day 1: Wednesday September 25 – LADCO Air Directors
Meeting Objectives and Agenda
- Understand the financial health of LADCO and review the plan for our technical work over the next year, and discuss if LADCO is well-positioned to meet the needs of our members
- Discuss current and emerging state air program planning requirements with US EPA OAQPS and Region 5 leadership
- Advance state air program understanding of EJ requirements/expectations in planning
- Identify opportunities to work across states to meet ozone, PM2.5, and regional haze planning goals
- Develop strategy/priorities for LADCO to support state planning efforts for 2025
Day 1 Agenda
| Time (CST) | Topic | Session Lead(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 – 9:00 | Breakfast and Networking | |
| 7:45 | Welcome, Roll, and Agenda Review | Annette Switzer, MI EGLE LADCO Board Chair |
| 8:00 | LADCO Business Update and FY2024-25 Work Plan Director’s Report Slides (PDF) | Zac Adelman LADCO Executive Director |
| 9:00 | US EPA Technical Updates and Discussion Presentation Slides (PDF) | Chet Wayland, EPA OAQPS |
| 10:15 | PM and O3 NAAQS attainment planning and compliance LADCO Technical Discussion Slides (PDF) | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| noon | Lunch Presentation: 2024 Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report LADCO 2024 Trends Report (PDF) | Angie Dickens, LADCO Mark Janssen, LADCO |
| 1:00 | EJ and Title VI Discussion with US EPA | John Mooney, EPA Region 5 |
| 2:30 | Open Discussion | |
| 3:30 | State-Only Meeting | |
| 5:30 | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 | Group Dinner @ Crust Brewing |
Day 1 Agenda Details
LADCO Business Update and FY2024-25 Work Plan
- Participants: LADCO Board and Executive Director
- LADCO Director’s Update, FY24 year in review; looking forward to FY25
EPA Presentation on Technical Updates
- Presenters: Chet Wayland (EPA OAQPS)
- Monitoring system plans and updates, including 5-year monitoring network review, and 103 grant budget projections for PM2.5 monitoring
- EPA modeling for regional haze and the PM2.5 NAAQS
- Final updated Air Emissions Report Rule
- Open conversation touching on the following topics
- PM2.5 monitoring funding (CAA section 103)
- Sensors
- EPA technical guidance and the overturned Chevron decision
- NAAQS and regional haze planning technical support
O3 and PM2.5 NAAQS Attainment Planning and Compliance
- Facilitator: Zac Adelman
- O3 and PM planning timelines review
- Meaningful engagement
- Designations
- Monitoring requirements
- Modeling requirements and SIPs
- Permitting and enforcement, including modeling guidance and SIL updates
- Precursor demonstrations
- Considerations for upcoming designations, opportunities to communicate with U.S. EPA
- Exceptional event analyses to impact designations
- Lessons from previous PM NAAQS attainment planning in the Great Lakes region
- Ozone planning topics
- Discussion about bump ups coming in late 2024/early 2025
- NOx and VOC emissions reductions
Air Quality and Emissions Trends in 2024
- Participants: Angie Dickens and Mark Janssen
- Trends in air quality and emissions through September 2024
EJ and Title VI Discussion with US EPA
- Participants: LADCO Board + John Mooney (EPA R5)
- EPA guidance review
- How to incorporate EJ into air program activities: permitting and enforcement, SIPs, communication, monitoring plans, others?
- Filling in the gaps: what the state air programs need from EPA to enable effective EJ and Title VI activities
- Cumulative impacts
- Legislation in states
- Policy and planning applications: permitting, SIPs, regional haze, monitoring
- Hear from EPA and states on EJ considerations in planning, such as 105 planning, SIPs, monitoring, and enforcement
- Meaningful engagement for communities
- How are compliance and enforcement actions playing out in EJ communities
Open Discussion with EPA Staff
- Participants: LADCO Air Directors and EPA
States-Only Meeting
- Open discussion between LADCO member state staff
- Debrief on meeting discussions
- Identify follow-up or action items
- Develop priorities for LADCO and the TOC over the next year
Day 2: Thursday September 26 – Technical Oversight Committee
Meeting Objectives and Agenda
- Plan LADCO technical work during 2025
- Define LADCO’s role in upcoming ozone, PM2.5, and regional haze planning
- Identify key dates and interaction periods for regional air quality planning in the next year
- Review ozone and PM2.5 exceptional event requirements, and develop a plan to pursue demonstrations to exclude regulatory significant data
Day 2 Agenda
| Time (CST) | Topic | Session Lead(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Breakfast and Networking | |
| 8:30 | Welcome, Roll, and Agenda Review | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 8:45 | PM2.5 NAAQS Attainment Planning, Compliance, Precursor Analyses LADCO Technical Discussion Slides (PDF) | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 11:00 | Regional Haze Planning | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 11:30 | LADCO Workgroup Update | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| Lunch Presentation: Speciated PM2.5 and Emissions Trends LADCO 2024 Speciation Trends Report (PDF) | Angie Dickens, LADCO | |
| 1:00 | Ozone NAAQS Attainment Planning and Emissions Controls | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 2:00 | Exceptional Events | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 3:00 | Chicago Summer Field Campaign Update AGES+ Campaign Update (PDF) | Angie Dickens, LADCO |
| 4:00 | Mobile and Stationary Source Emissions: Expected impacts of recent federal regulatory programs | |
| 5:00 | States Only: Meeting debrief and LADCO priority setting | |
| 6:00 | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 | Group Dinner @ Bub City – Rosemont |
Day 2 Agenda Details
PM2.5 NAAQS Attainment Planning, Compliance, Precursor Emissions Controls
- Participants: TOC and US EPA R5
- Review the PM2.5 NAAQS attainment planning schedule
- PM2.5 NAAQS compliance discussion: what will be the key requirements with permitting, monitoring, enforcement, modeling, and SIPs; including exceptional events planning
- Training needs for agency staff
- Actions to be taken between now and the designations in 2025
- Urban increment analysis, and precursor significance testing
- Recommendations to the Air Directors
Regional Haze Planning
- Participants: TOC and US EPA R5
- Review the 3rd haze implementation period planning schedule
- Coordination among the states on planning strategies for the 3rd implementation period
- Discuss a need for communication to the U.S. EPA about consensus opinion from the region 5 states on how the 3rd implementation period should proceed
- Recommendations to the Air Directors
LADCO Workgroup Update
- Review line-up of LADCO workgroups and develop priorities
Speciated Air Quality and Emissions Trends in 2023-24
- Participants: Angie Dickens
- Trends in speciated PM2.5 through August 2024
O3 NAAQS Attainment Planning and Precursor Emissions Controls
- Participants: TOC and US EPA R5
- Review ozone planning schedule through the next attainment date in August 2027
- Coordination among the states on emissions control strategy development
- LADCO work plan to support attainment efforts
- Emissions inventory and control option analysis
- Analysis of NOx emissions from different sectors and a discussion on emissions control programs
- What are states doing for emissions controls? Are you writing regs? Anything beyond the federal requirements Are there regional control strategies that are needed
- Are there federal enforcement efforts or emissions strategies that LADCO and/or members could request from the US EPA?
- IRA opportunities
- Recommendations to the Air Directors
Exceptional Events
- Participants: TOC and US EPA R5
- Review the ozone and PM2.5 monitoring data and LADCO EE screening results for 2023 and 2024
- Understand regulatory significance for the annual PM2.5 standard
- Identify where LADCO should be putting resources for ozone and PM applications
- Recommendations to the Air Directors
Chicago Summer Field Campaign
- Presenter/facilitator: Angie Dickens
- Review results and insights from the LADCO summer 2023 field study
- How can these results be used to inform ozone and PM planning
Mobile and Stationary Source Emissions: Expected impacts of recent federal regulatory programs
- Presenter/facilitator: Zac Adelman
- A look at the Biden administrations docket of rules, with estimates of how these rules will impact criteria pollutant emissions in the LADCO region
- Discussion on how to consider these federal rules on PM and ozone planning activities in the region
States-Only Meeting
- Open discussion between LADCO member state staff
Day 3: Friday September 27 – LADCO Training Committee
Meeting Objectives and Agenda
- Meet the other training coordinators in the LADCO region
- Learn about recent training program development activities at the US EPA
- Identify resources that could help us do our jobs more effectively
- Formulate a draft training plan for FY25
- Identify how we can support the LADCO members with EJ and Title VI work
Day 3 Agenda
| Time (CST) | Topic | Session Lead(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Breakfast and Networking | |
| 9:00 | Welcome, Roll, and Agenda Review LADCO Training Committee Discussion Slide (PDF) | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 9:15 | LADCO Training Committee Hangout: meet-and-greet for the training coordinators; share best practices | |
| 10:30 | Emerging Training Needs: what do we anticipate will be needed for training over the next year, and what topics are not well covered in the existing training program | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| Noon | EPA Training Updates: Activities at OAQPS and Region 5 to support state/local air program training | Angie Dickens, LADCO |
| 1:00 | FY2024 Regional Training Plan | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 3:00 | Training Operations @ LADCO | Zac Adelman, LADCO |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |
Day 3 Agenda Details
LADCO Training Committee Hangout
- Meet and greet
- Discuss best practices for surveying staff on training needs: what works?
- Work-training balance: how do you balance your day job responsibilities with your training coordinator role? Project management tips or favorite tools?
- Internal training: what does each state offer and how do you make the courses interesting? How do you find speakers?
- Performance indicators: how do you measure the success/gaps in your training program?
Emerging Training Needs
- Brainstorm on the topics that will need to be available for training in the coming 1-3 years
- Discussion on emerging logistical and delivery needs for training
- Discuss state air program EJ and training needs
US EPA Training Updates
- Meet the US EPA training staff
- Get a tour of airknowledge.gov
- Learn about US EPA’s 3-year training plan
- Q&A/Open discussion
FY2025 Regional Training Plan
- Review the results of the annual training needs assessment
- Identify areas of common interest/need
- Prioritize the responses for each state
- Formulate a draft training plan for FY24
Training Operations @ LADCO
- How to find what courses are available: course catalog
- How to schedule courses: US EPA LMS and the LADCO Training Committee
- How to manage training funds: the LADCO budget spreadsheet
- How request travel and registration
- Expense reimbursements
- Internal training support
