Course descriptions and trainers - US EPA



Agenda and Course DescriptionsEmissions Inventory Training May 5-7, 2020Day 1 Tuesday May 5th, 2020Room:May 5C111AMay 5C111BMay 5C111CMay 5C113AMMOVESWagon WheelEmissions Modeling Inventory Prep for Modeling Q & A with EPAPMMOVESNonpoint ICIEmissions Modeling Inventory Prep for ModelingQ & A with EPADay 2 Wednesday May 6th, 2020Room:May 6C111AMay 6C111BMay 6C111CMay 6C113AMMOVES Nonpoint RWCInventory Guidance for Ozone, PM and Regional HazeQ & A with EPAPMMOVESHow to Review the National EmissionInventory Using the Emission InventorySystem (EIS) and Other ToolsCombined Air Emissions Reporting (CAER)Q & A with EPADay 3 Thursday May 7th, 2020Room:May 7C111AMay 7C111BMay 7C111CMay 7C113AMCMV/RailWagon Wheel (Repeat)How to Review theNational EmissionInventory Using theEmission InventorySystem (EIS) and Other Tools (Repeat)Emission Factor Procedure GuidancePMNO CLASSNO CLASSNO CLASSNO CLASSCourse descriptions and trainers1. MOVES: **If you select this course, you will be registered for both days and will not be able to register for other courses during these days** Daniel Bizer-Cox, U.S. EPA and Chris Dresser, U.S. EPAEPA developed this detailed, two-day hands-on course for state and local agency staff who will use MOVES2014b for developing emissions inventories for SIP and conformity analyses. This course is intended for new users of MOVES. If you have already taken MOVES2010 or MOVES2014 training and are familiar with the basic operation of MOVES, please refrain from signing up for this course to leave course spaces open for new users.Download course materials from attendee expectations: Arrive at the course with your own laptop computer with the latest version of MOVES2014b already installed and tested.Be sure to install MySQL Workbench when prompted during the MOVES installation process.?Give yourself adequate time to install MOVES prior to leaving for the course as the course instructors do not have time to help with installation or to resolve any installation problems on the day of the course.Download the MOVES training materials (presentations and files needed for course exercises) to a folder on the desktop of your laptop computer.The laptop you bring will also need to have MS Excel or some other Excel compatible spreadsheet software installed.Many course attendees also find it helpful to bring a notebook with the course presentations to annotate during the course.2. Combined Air Emissions Reporting (CAER): Julia Gamas, U.S. EPA and Kevin Brundage, U.S. EPA For the past few years, the CAER project has worked to streamline the way industry reports air emissions to meet EPA and state/local/tribal (SLT) program requirements.? The “Common Emissions Form” (CEF) is an electronic reporting tool that will allow facilities to reduce reporting burden by reporting emissions data for several programs in one application.? The goal of training will be to demonstrate the tool so that SLT air program staff and managers can understand how it works and how industry would be able to use it.? The training will also include a discussion of next steps in CEF development and provide an opportunity for attendants to provide feedback on how the CEF system would have to be adapted for their state.3. Inventory Guidance for Ozone, PM and Regional HazeMarc Houyoux, U.S. EPAThis half-day training will be an overview of the Emissions Inventory Guidance for Implementation of Ozone, PM, and Regional Haze. The class should be most helpful for those who are not familiar with State Implementation Plan (SIP) inventory requirements and for those who support SIP development for areas where the attainment status has changed.? The course will include information about the legal basis for these SIPs, types of inventories required under different cases for each rule, and illustrative examples.?This course has been slightly updated for Regional Haze from past versions, based on the finalization of the Regional Haze Implementation Rule and additional information regarding how to use the 2016 Collaborative Emissions Platform to support Regional Haze SIPs.4. Emissions Inventory Preparation for Modeling **If you select this course you will be registered for the entire day and unable to select other courses on this day**Alison Eyth, U.S. EPA, Caroline Farkas, U.S. EPA, and Jeff Vukovich, U.S. EPAThis full day course will review the concepts involved in preparing emissions inventories for air quality modeling of historic and future years.?5. How to Review the National Emission Inventory Using the EIS and Other ToolsJonathan Miller, U.S. EPAThis training is for state, local, and tribal air agency staff who need to review the National Emissions Inventory using the Emissions Inventory System (EIS) and other tools as part of ensuring their data submissions to EPA are complete and accurate. The topics covered include:EIS report tools?Common features of reports?Using Microsoft? Excel? / Access? with reports?Common report issues?Things to consider when running EIS reports?2020 CERS Schema (for 2020 emissions submissions)6. Wagon Wheel and Nonpoint Survey Rich Mason, U.S. EPA and David Cooley, Abt Associates Inc.This half-day course is designed for the nonpoint inventory state, local, tribal (SLT) developer, and it shows how to use the Nonpoint Survey and Wagon Wheel to help create the Nonpoint NEI. We will demonstrate the Wagon Wheel tool and its associated Input Templates and Nonpoint Emissions Method and Operator instructions (NEMOs) and highlight how the Nonpoint Survey should be used in relation to SLT-submitted Input Templates and/or emissions. We will also touch on recent EIS inventory selection rules as they relate to the Nonpoint Survey and how these new rules impacted the 2017 Nonpoint Selection.7. Nonpoint Industrial and Commercial/Institutional (ICI) fuel combustionRich Mason, U.S. EPA and David Cooley, Abt Associates Inc.This half-day course will dive deep into the Input Template for the Nonpoint Industrial and Commercial/Institutional (ICI) fuel combustion component of the Wagon Wheel. We will describe the 4 options for submitting an Input Template, and dive into detail on the pre-processing steps introduced the NEMO for populating the Input Template. We will also discuss how the Nonpoint Survey responses and potential SLT-submitted emissions relate the resulting NEI selection and Input Template submittals. Lastly, we will solicit ideas and solutions for how SLT agencies approach this key source category in the development cycle for the 2020 NEI.8. Nonpoint Residential Wood CombustionDavid Cooley, Abt Associates Inc. and Rich Mason, U.S. EPAThis half-day course will focus on each component of Residential Wood Combustion (RWC) in the Wagon Wheel. We will describe the new 2017 NEI methodology, including the RWC survey data used in the tool and the method to extrapolate the data to all counties. We will also review and discuss each spreadsheet in the RWC Input Template. Lastly, we will solicit areas for prioritization of 2020 NEI improvements such as emission factors and more local activity data.9. Commercial Marine Vessels and Rail EmissionsRichard Billings, Eastern Research Group (ERG) and Mark Janssen, Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium The methods used in the development of the 2017 NEI commercial marine vessel (CMV) and locomotive (i.e., rail) inventories will be discussed. 10. Emission Factor Procedure GuidanceMichael Ciolek, U.S. EPA, Ketan Patel, U.S. EPA, Casey Bray U.S. EPA, Teresa Lowe, U.S. EPA, and Monti Ali, U.S. EPAThis 1-hour course will cover the emissions factor development process that includes (1) a facility using the Electronic Reporting Tool (ERT) to develop stack test reports (performance tests), (2) submitting these reports to the Compliance Emission and Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI), and (3) the processes that EPA uses to calculate and finalize emissions factors with WebFIRE. The training includes how to access and use the ERT, including a high-level summary of supported test methods and specifications. The training details how to submit the performance test reports to CEDRI after being created through the ERT. We will describe and discuss CEDRI’s performance test review process for EPA and state/local/tribal reviewers. The last portion of the presentation will focus on emission factor issues. We will cover our approach and recent WebFIRE enhancements for developing emissions factors and provide an overview of how performance test data proceeds through statistical evaluations before being included in an emissions factor (Outlier Test, BDL/ADL check, CTR, t-test, etc). A short status of AP-42 and new SCC updates in WebFIRE will be also be provided. ................
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