2005 Air Toxics Summit
MARAMA and EPA Region III held the Air Toxic Summit on October 18 – 20, 2005 in the Philadelphia, PA at EPA Region III’s conference center.
This year the Summit included panel discussions between the MARAMA States and local agencies. The agenda included discussions on the “area source program and the flexible approach,” mobile sources with an emphasis on Ports, diesel retrofits and anti-idling, community air toxic risk assessments and risk reduction activities, and the risk – based MACT program.
Presentations:
(PDF format)
The Area Source Program: An Update (presentations)
The Area Source Program Categories (listing)
Yvonne Johnson-OAQPS
MACT Enforcement: Sucess Storys
- MACT Enforcement Case Study in Maryland Frank Courtright – MDE
- Natural Gas Dehydration Robert Keatley/Jesse Hanshaw – WV DEP
- Centralia Coal Mine Fire Study Ramamurthy-PA DEP
- Air Toxics Modeling Research Program: An Overview Eric Hall-EPA ORD
- Philadelphia Air Toxic Risk Assesment Jim Smith-EPA
- Mobile Source Air Toxic Rule Brian Rehn-EPA
- Ports Perry Pandya-EPA
- Philadelphia Port Tom Weir, Philadelphia AMS
- Reducing Diesel Emissions from Port Drayage Operations Ken Adler, OTAQ
Anti-Idling
- National model (not presented at meeting) Kelly Sheckler, EPA
- DC Anti-Idling Program (not presented at meeting) John Nwoke, DC DoH
- Philadelphia Anti-Idling Program Tom Weir, Philadelphia AMS
- Community Based Air Toxics Reductions and Risk Assessments David Campbell, EPA
Community Based Projects in Region III
- Community Based Air ToxicsYvonne Johnson, OAQPS,
- Reducing Air Toxis Locally: A Bias for Action Susan McDowell EPA Region III,
- Allegheny County, PA Erin O’Brian-Allegheny Co. DoH,
- Camden Waterfront South Air Toxics Pilot Project Joann Held-NJ DEP
Communicating Risk to the Public: The Good/The Bad/The Ugly
- Communicating Risk to the Public Linda Bonanno-NJ DEP
- Communicating Delaware’s Air Toxics Assessment Study Terri Brixen -DE DNREC
Risk-based Permiting Program
- Risk in EPA Rules Ray Chalmers, EPA
- Air Toxics: Industrial Boiler and Plywood MACT Bill Glover-VA DEQ