The MARAMA technical group works with agency staff (within and beyond the MARAMA region) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to coordinate and enhance capabilities to create needed technical products, develop agency technical abilities and respond to current challenges impacting air quality and to meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. MARAMA has championed, developed, and coordinated agency work in creating emissions inventories for submission to the National Emissions Inventory (NEI), which is used in a variety of planning and modeling applications. Additionally, MARAMA was a key participant in the development of the Eastern Regional Technical Advisory Committee Electrical Generating Unit (ERTAC EGU) Projection Tool, which projects electric generating unit and other selected industrial unit emissions, as well as the Emissions Modeling Framework (EMF), for management and projection of emissions inventories.
Due to MARAMA’s expertise in developing inventories and providing alternative scenarios on electrical generating unit projections, MARAMA participates and supports the Ozone Transport Region (OTR) with technical support, which focuses on NOx and VOC emissions for ozone attainment planning purposes. MARAMA is also a member of the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (MANEVU), which supports regional haze strategies that include evaluating all visibility impairing pollutants from the District of Columbia and the states of Maryland through Maine.
MARAMA consistently presents technical workshops and webinars to further educate and share information with agency technical staff from across the region and beyond that align with meeting the Clean Air Act requirements.
Finally, MARAMA assists member agencies in their responses to current air quality challenges including: