Title: The Effect of Ozone Transport on Western Michigan Background and Historical Perspective
1The Effect of Ozone Transport on Western
MichiganBackground and Historical Perspective
- Lou Pocalujka
- Environmental Laboratory Services
- Consumers Energy
- Jackson, Michigan
2The Energy Policy Act of 2005
- Sec. 996
- Western Michigan Demonstration Project
3The Administrator of the EPA
- In consultation with
- Shall conduct a demonstration project
- Shall assess any difficulties such areas may
experience in meeting the 8-hour NAAQS - Shall determine the extent of ozone and ozone
precursor transport - Assess alternatives to achieve compliance
4And Now for the Historical Perspective
- In the beginning, there was
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6The Original SIP Mindset
- If your county has a nonattainment problem, your
county has to fix it.
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8Enter Reality
- Via Science and Rational Thought
9But to do this, we (Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois
and Indiana) need to pony up 12,000,000 to
13,000,000
10Enter Reality
- Via Science and Litigation
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13I need a model that can deal with the real
situation in and around Lake Michigan.
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18Ozone nonattainment around Lake Michigan begat
rational scientific thought and litigation.
19Rational scientific thought and litigation begat
a MOA
- (and 12,000,000 to 13,000,000)
20The MOA money begat the Lake Michigan Ozone
Study
21LMOS begat the Lake Michigan Air Directors
Consortium (LADCO)
22LADCO begat a lot of things (most of them good).
- A philosophical shift in dealing with regional
air quality issues. - A forum for regional cooperation
- A body of science
- Regional air quality, meteorological and
emissions models - Attainment of the old 1-hour ozone standard
- The foundation for attainment of the 1997 ozone
and PM 2.5 NAAQS - The foundation for attainment of the new ozone
and PM 2.5 NAAQS
23LADCO was the logical choice to conduct the EPA
study required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.