Cape Romain

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Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge
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• Acadia National Park July 26-27
• Proposed IMPROVE Equation
• bext (?inorg) f(RH)new Ammonium Sulfate
• (?inorg) f(RH)new Ammonium
  Nitrate
• (?POM) 1.8 Organic Carbon
• 10 Light Absorbing or Elemental Carbon
• 1 Soil
• 0.6 Coarse Mass
• 1 f(RH)new Sea Salt
• 10 (Rayleigh scattering)
• where
• f(RH)new includes water below RH 40 , and is
  often higher than the older curve for
  corresponding RH values
• POM 1.8OC
• Sea Salt 1.8Cl- or 3.27Na
• ainorg 3(0.7.02Mmix)
• aPOM 3.63(0.7.02Mmix)
• Mmix Ammonium SulfateAmmonium NitratePOM

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• National RPO meeting
• Regional Updates
• Ammonia/ammonium monitoring -Donna Kenski
• RAIN (regional haze supersites) - Gary Kleiman
• Focus sites - Scott Reynolds
• Ammonia monitoring evaluation Carbon speciation
  monitoring plans - Mary Pettijohn
• CASTNET monitoring initiative - Gary Lear
• Weight of Evidence
• EPA Guidance on WoE - Brian Timin
• WRAP - Tom Moore
• VISTAS - Pat Brewer
• MANE-VU - Gary Kleiman
• MidWest RPO - Donna Kenski
• CenRAP - Annette Sharp/Bret Anderson
• Final Session
• VIEWS Status/Examples
• FASTNET Status
• Monitoring strategy guidance for SIPs
• Brief overview of SIP Requirements - Tom Moore

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Monitoring Plans for SIPS

• The Requirements
• 51.305
• a)must include a strategy for evaluating
  reasonably attributable visibility impairment by
  visual or other appropriate monitoring
  techniques.
• b) ... must provide for the consideration of
  available visibility data
• 51.308
• 4). ..a monitoring strategy for measuring,
  characterizing and reporting Must be coordinated
  with .. Sect 51.305
• may be met through participation in (IMPROVE)
• Must provide for
• Additional monitoring needed
• Procedures to use the data
• If no Class1, use of info for determination of
  contribution
• Reporting of data
• (VI) Other elements..

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• Monitoring strategy guidance for SIPs
• SIP Template.
• National Monitoring Strategy
• Objectives
• Trends
• Understanding
• Identify
• Evauate Models
• Maintain Systeming
• Haze Monitoring as a component of the NAMS
• IMPROVE, CASTNet, Ncore, NADP
• Priorities
• Support and base for Regional and State
  Strategies.
• . which feeds the SIPs

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Next Steps

• Contribute to the development of the National
  Monitoring Strategy
• Revise the VISTAS Monitoring Strategy
• Work with PWG on the monitoring pieces of the
  Template
• Keep aware of developments in other monitoring
  networks

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Purchase Knob, Great Smoky Mountains National
Park
Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge