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Seasons Greetings to Air-Inventory members!
A number of additions have been made to DEP's Emissions Inventory website that I wanted to let you know about.
(1) Refrigerants page - The Greenhouse
Gas section now has a page to help facilities decode the "R-22" and "R-409" into
greenhouse gas constituents.
A chart on the page lists refrigerants by ASHRAE 34 naming convention (the "R-"),
the greenhouse gas components and the nominal composition by percent weight.
We received many calls during the last round of reporting looking for this
information and decided to dedicate a webpage to it.
http://www.state.me.us/dep/air/emissions/refrigerants.htm
(2) Expansion of Calculation Tools Page
- We have added a number of new links to the Greenhouse Gas calculation
tools page, including the new NCASI link, AP-42, and the DOE, Energy Information
Administration. We also have a PDF version of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Form (the "green" sheet)
on the site for facilities to download (should they need to).
http://www.state.me.us/dep/air/emissions/ghg-tools.htm
(3) Air-Inventory Listserver digests have been posted through October 2004 on the listserver page, http://www.state.me.us/dep/air/emissions/listserver.htm#Digests.
(4) DEP-Published Reports and Papers page
- On the "How do I find out
about air emissions and air toxics near my home?" page, we have now posted
a page with DEP-published reports and papers on a variety of inventory and
toxics issues. The first four documents, available for download as either
a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF document, are on the 2002 inventory, the 1999
inventory, mercury and dioxin.
http://www.state.me.us/dep/air/emissions/dep-air-info.htm
The DEP will also soon be updating its Air Toxics webpages and providing an expanded Maine Air Toxics Initiative website. Stay tuned....
Other News
Becky Hodsdon has been entering and uploading the 2003 criteria pollutant inventory information into i-Steps. Quality Assurance reports are starting to be sent to our Licensing Unit Engineers for review. Facilities can expect to receive QA reports after the beginning of the year.
Greenhouse gas QA forms have been returned throughout the fall. The DEP expects that inventory to be complete in late January.
More than 95% of facilities required to file their 2003 emissions inventories have now done so. Twenty Letters of Warning were sent to non-submitting facilities earlier this fall and, unfortunately, a number of those have now been referred on to our Enforcement Unit.
And, finally, two items from EPA...
There is a new version of the FIRE (Factor Information and REtrieval) database available on line. This is version 6.25. You can download it at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/software/fire/index.html.
Also, the latest version of the 1970 to 2002 national emissions trends summary
data has been posted to the CHIEF web site at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/trends/index.html.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gould, Tammy [mailto:Tammy.Gould@maine.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:02 AM
To: air-inventory@informe.org
Subject: air-inventory New Air Toxics Website at DEP
We have significantly revised and reorganized our Air Toxics website at DEP.
The new address is http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/toxics/. The new Air Toxics
site contains an expanded Maine Air Toxics Initiative section, including
a listing of stakeholders, subcommittees, and a document archive, http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/toxics/mati.htm.
There is also a new Mercury page that specifically discusses mercury deposition
from air sources, http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/toxics/mercury.htm. Please
update any existing bookmarks you may have with links to these Air Toxics
sites.
Thank you.