MAC Committee Meeting, November 2005

General Documents

• Final Agenda (PDF)

Presentations

• CASAC-SAB AAMM September PM-coarse method meetings (Nov 30 Final Version) (George Allen)
• STAPPA/ALAPCO October Monitoring Steering Comm. Meeting (Dirk, Charlie)
• Nescaum Air Toxics and Public Health Committee - Update (Heidi Hales)
• NJ Tekran Hg monitor experience - Is the RGM species module practical? (Charlie P, Dirk F)
• Possible National Network of Tekrans (Kevin Cavender, others)
• Summary of STAPPA PAMS poll (Charlie P)
• FY 07 and beyond projected cuts (EPA)
• NMHC at “cut” sites? Thermo 55C: sufficient sensitivity only for urban areas
• Update on FY05 and 06 PM 103 grants (Norm Beloin, Mazeeda Khan)
• Ammonia Monitoring Near Real-time instrument inter-comparison
  Why do we need good time-resolved ambient NH3 measurements? What has promise? (Jim Schwab)
• NOw-x-y-z: Can the NCORE instrumentation as specified (Version 4 of precursor TAD, September 2005) produce meaningful urban results? What else is needed to produce useful NOy-z data? What’s the desired end product: true NO2 and NOz. Why is 10 meters essential? Should we turn off our existing NOw instruments? (Cavender, others)
• RADNET: What is it, Do we want to do it, When does it start, Who is Paying for it? (Cavendar / Beloin)
• Air Now Tech Major Overhaul: (Allen)
  • New parameters to submit (Met, SO2, NOw, CO...)
  • new user features; Significance to RAIN sites
• EPA Pre-cursor gas Training for NCORE Level 2 sites - Spring and Fall 2005
  Was it useful? Is more detail needed? (EPA, states)
• Through the Probe Audits: an in person impression. (Avi Teitz, discussion)
• NCORE and other Regs Brief Update (EPA)
• PM Staff Paper and Proposed PM Standards; implications for monitoring (Allen)
• Upcoming changes in technologies: Caveats and Cautions
  Changes to Rev B FDMS, New TEOM Platform, dichot TEOM, new Aeth, etc. (Dirk F.)
• Informal summary of existing monitoring program structures for each state:
  Who does what in your program, data collection (cradle to grave) and quality assurance (who and how in your program) -- Discussion lead: NH-DES
• Data Acquisition and validation systems:
  Digital Data Acquisition: Overview of DRDAS (Montz)