RE: Minutes Corrections and Files from EPA R5 Meeting

["Jon Dettling" <dettling@glc.org>]

Mark,

At the recent EPA Region 5 Inventory meeting that took place the day before
our group's meeting in Chicago, several changes to the NEI system were
discussed that members of our Steering Committee flagged as having some
potential impacts on the RAPIDS programming tasks. A list of these are
below. It would be good if we reviewed this list on next week's programming
call and decided which will require some significant further attention and
which ones won't. The materials from the meeting should offer some more
information and are available at the link below.

Jon

-There are some unit changes, such as for flow rates.
 
-There is a new field called "status" for facility stacks. This will allow
non-operating stacks to be included, but marked as not operating.  Chun Yi
feels that these could slow things down.
 
-Another new addition is the "facility type" field and "emission unit type."
Chun Yi thinks these may be similar to some other fields, such as emission
unit code. The region could possibly work on a mapping for this once it is
published.
 
-There are also field to allow or require local regulations to be included. 
 
-The XML schema is somewhat similar to what we've done in RAPIDS3.
 
-The new schema will allow for multiple release points. The group doesn't
recall what the status of RAPIDS 3 is on this. 
 
-There are also some possible changes in the PM10 reporting to divide
between condensable and filterable. 
 
-For metals, emissions are now wanted only in the weight of the metal
element. The EPA will be producing a conversion table. 


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Jon Dettling
Great Lakes Commission
734-274-5183
dettling@glc.org

From: owner-airtoxics@great-lakes.net
[mailto:owner-airtoxics@great-lakes.net] On Behalf Of Jon Dettling
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:21 AM
To: 'Hetherington, Grant D - DNR'
Cc: 'Airtoxics'
Subject: Minutes Corrections and Files from EPA R5 Meeting

Grant,

I?ve posted the set of files you mentioned on yesterday?s call here:
http://wiki.glin.net/download/attachments/12550147/Reg5_wkshp.zip

Jon



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