# Presentation: 141010

## Michigan Air Program & Ozone NAAQS 

**Michigan Air Program &**** ****Ozone NAAQS**** **

**Laura J. DeGuire**
**Air Quality Division**
**Department of Environmental Quality**

## 
To those who say the new standard is too strict: 
We need to protect the health of all Michigan residents – especially those in the sensitive groups category.

To those who say new ozone standard is too weak:
Michigan will be very busy striving to meet the new standard of 75 ppb and don’t worry ... the standard will be reviewed again in 5 years.

*To those who say the new standard is too strict:*
**We need to protect the health of **_**all**_** Michigan residents – especially those in the sensitive groups category**.
*To those who say new ozone standard is too weak:*
**Michigan will be very busy striving to meet the new standard of 75 ppb and don’t worry ... the standard will be reviewed again in 5 years.**

- Michigan NAAQS comments:     “*Follow the science*.”

## Air quality in Michigan is usually pretty good ... but not always where it needs to be to protect everyone’s health. 

- MIair is ***Your*** air!

- 2008 National Air Quality Conference

**The tighter ozone standards will be **_**very**_** difficult to meet ... in part, due to things    beyond air agency control. (i.e. transport, background, biogenics)**

**Air quality in Michigan is usually pretty good ... **_**but**_** not always where it needs to be to protect everyone’s health.**** **

**Notes:**
IS AIR QUALITY GETTING WORSE?:  
No ...Actually it is improving.  We just understand the health effects of air pollution better and that it’s not yet clean enough to protect everyone.  

Research clearly indicates that children [whose lungs are still developing], people with heart or lung disease [such as asthma], and older adults [because they are more at risk for heart disease]are affected by air pollution at lower concentrations than the general public is. 

## Implementing new ozone standard in Michigan will be ... (insert your phrase here)

- Various comments have been that 75 ppm is:
- Not protective enough (What about health?)
- Too restrictive (Can you spell e-c-o-n-o-m-y?)
- Tough to meet (have you taken a look at 2005-2007data?)
- A communications nightmare (Wait - isn’t the air cleaner?)
- An unfunded mandate for air agencies
- The “worst timing ever” considering grant funding cuts to monitoring. The Michigan monitoring network is not just down to bare bones,              we are taking out ribs!

## OLD 8-HR NAAQS WERE NEARLY MET!

**2004-2006**

**Detroit area attains**

*Base DV for EPA info*

**2005-2007**

***Oops!***

## Double-Check Your Estimates

**2004-2006:  14 Counties would not meet new NAAQS **
**2005-2007:  22 Counties would not meet new NAAQS **
**2005-2007:  31 **_**MSA**_** counties would not meet new NAAQS**

**Historically Nonattainment area size has been determined by census MSA’s or county borders**.

**2004-2006**

**2005-2007 ****DV by county**

**2005-2007 ****DV by MSA**

**Base DV for EPA info**

## Michigan Ozone Design Values - Comparing Old and New 8-Hr Stds 

- Michigan Ozone Design Values - Comparing Old and New 8-Hr Stds

| County Monitors | OLD 8-hour standard  
≥ 85 ppb highlighted |  |  |  | NEW 8-hour standard 
≥ 75 ppb highlighted |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 2003-2005 |   2004-2006 | 2005-2007 |  | 2003-2005 |    2004-2006 | 2005-2007 |
| Allegan - Holland | 89 | 88 | 93 |  | 89 | 88 | 93 |
| Benzie - Frankfort | 83 | 80 | 82 |  | 83 | 80 | 82 |
| Berrien - Coloma | 84 | 79 | 84 |  | 84 | 79 | 84 |
| Cass (IN downwind site) | 84 | 78 | 80 |  | 84 | 78 | 80 |
| Clinton - Rose Lake/Bath | 78 | 73 | 76 |  | 78 | 73 | 76 |
| Genesee - Flint
Genesee - Otisville | 80
82 | 75
77 | 77
79 |  | 80
82 | 75
77 | 77
79 |
| Huron - Harbor Beach | 77 | 72 | 78 |  | 77 | 72 | 78 |
| Ingham - Lansing | 78 | 73 | 77 |  | 78 | 73 | 77 |
| Kalamazoo | 79 | 74 | 76 |  | 79 | 74 | 76 |
| Kent – Gr. Rapids
Kent - Evans | 78
82 | 77
78 | 83
83 |  | 78
82 | 77
78 | 83
83 |
| Leelanau - Peshawbestown | 76 | 74 | 77 |  | 76 | 74 | 77 |
| Lenawee - Tecumseh | 81 | 76 | 79 |  | 81 | 76 | 79 |
| Macomb - New Haven
Macomb -Warren  | 90
87 | 82
79 | 86
86 |  | 90
87 | 82
79 | 86
86 |
| Manistee – site began in 2006 | - | n/a | n/a |  | - | n/a | n/a |
| Mason - Scottville | 81 | 77 | 81 |  | 81 | 77 | 81 |
| Missaukee - Houghton Lake | 75 | 72 | 74 |  | 75 | 72 | 74 |
| Muskegon | 84 | 83 | 88 |  | 84 | 83 | 88 |
| Oakland - Oak Park  | 81 | 75 | 78 |  | 81 | 75 | 78 |
| Ottawa - Jenison | 81 | 79 | 85 |  | 81 | 79 | 85 |
| Schoolcraft - Seney  | 78 | 78 | 82 |  | 78 | 78 | 82 |
| St. Clair - Port Huron | 82 | 80 | 85 |  | 82 | 80 | 85 |
| Washtenaw - Ypsilanti  | 81 | 76 | 78 |  | 81 | 76 | 78 |
| Wayne - Allen Park
Wayne - East 7 Mile 
Wayne - Linwood | 75
81
76 | 70
74
71 | 74
83
Monitor shut down |  | 75
81
76 | 70
74
71 | 74
83
Monitor shut down |

## Preaching to the Choir

**Michigan’s goal – like yours – is to protect public health and to be proactive in communicating the new ozone standard to residents.**

- In 2008, we plan to:
- Plan to call *Action!* Days at 75 ppb
- Increase AQI awareness
- Encourage EnviroFlash enrollment
- Work to get more voluntary reductions

## NAAQS Changes on Top of           Funding Cuts Create a Dire Situation

-    **LESS IS LESS!  **Eliminating sites for pollutants that have new NAAQS is unprecedented
- FUNDING CUT$:  Cuts to funding levels at a time when air agencies most need grant dollars to ensure adequate network designs to protect peoples health is just plain wrong.
- GRANT SHELL GAMES:  Converting 103 funded programs to the 105 Grant places huge stress on a tight budget.  Many states  can’t make $ match, so monitors could be cut - even ozone monitors.  Do we sacrifice an ozone site in order to save a PM2.5 site?  And the new lead standards are coming.

## NAAQS Changes on Top of Funding Cuts Create a Dire Situation (continued)

- NETWORK DESIGN:  Is the design of the ozone network appropriate for assessing crop and vegetation damage - especially where the ozone susceptible species are located?
- LENGTH OF OZONE SEASON:  Michigan data shows that no adjustments are needed to the extend the length of the ozone season.

- NAAQS Changes on Top of Funding Cuts Create a Dire Situation (continued)

## NAAQS Changes on Top of Funding Cuts Create a Dire Situation (continued)

- Regional Planning Organizations have provided innovative science and public outreach. So, ***why*** propose to cut the budgets of RPOs in the FY2009 grant guidance?

- LESS FAVORED CHILD?
- One supervisor asked, “*Why are ambient air monitoring networks always taking the funding hits?  And why is EPA talking about expanding other programs (**e.g., CASTNET, IMPROVE**) whose data is unavailable to both AIRNOW and AQS*?”

- NAAQS Changes on Top of Funding Cuts Create a Dire Situation (continued)

## DEQ’s PUBLIC OUREACH MESSAGE TO RESIDENTS

** **Michigan’s message will continue to be:
- Any action that results in cleaner air is good.
*Action! Days* stress the need to:
-   Reduce Air Pollution and
-   Protect Health
- Promote use of the AQI and EnviroFlash via **MIair** to provide a quick picture of current air quality.

- MIair is ***Your*** air!

## A PUBLIC OUTREACH NIGHTMARE

-   Big challenges communicating the new stricter ozone standard include ...
- Explain _wh_y there will be more *Action! *Days called when Michigan’s air quality continues to improve.
- Too many *Action! Days* = “Crying Wolf”?
- Question of balance between ozone & PM and other serious air pollutant concerns                       (i.e. mercury, new lead std, air toxics, etc.)

## Actions! - Exactly what more can the public do when so much is beyond control? i.e. met transport, border idling, agriculture, biogenics.
Why punish the [transport] victims?
Explain why we are shutting down air monitors if NAAQS was just revised to be more stringent? 

- Why punish the [transport] victims?
- Explain why we are shutting down air monitors if NAAQS was just revised to be more stringent?

**A PUBLIC OUTREACH NIGHTMARE ****continued ...**

*Hello EPA top management ... we just don’t have the matching $ - please don’t make us beg!*

## THANK YOU 

**       ****Visit us at www.michigan.gov/deqair**
** ****and select the “     ****MIair**** ****” icon**

- MIair is ***Your*** air!

- 2008 National Air Quality Conference

## MIair

- MIair is ***Your*** air!

-  ... is Michigan’s tool to provide Air Data Online.

- 2008 National Air Quality Conference

-  Air Quality Index and Forecasts
-  *Action! Day* Notices & Info
-  EnviroFlash Notifications
-  Raw Air Monitor Data
-  Ozone and Fine Particle Maps