design and analysis, programming,
testing and implementation in a
variety of industrial settings. Richard
has an undergraduate degree in
Business Administration and a
Master's in Industrial Relations. In
our Branch, he's been quite effective in
extracting data from various places for
our evaluation. Richard spent 36 years
with the National Guard, mostly in
data processing. He likes reading,
gardening/landscaping, and being a
handyman at home. He's active in the
IBMer social groups.

Laurel Schultz, an
Environmental Engineer in the
Ozone/CO Branch of our Air Quality
Management Division, is working
with EIB on a 5-month rotation
assignment. She's already involved in
producing the next Trends report and in
inventory validation efforts, and she
will be our contact with one of the
Regional Offices on O3/CO inventory
matters, Laurel's lending us an
important hand here.

We have two young energetic
college students aboard, thanks to the
EPA summer hire program. They are
both adept with computers, and we're

glad to have them with us.

Greg Bryant, a resident of Raleigh
and a 4.0 GPA student at NC State
University, is now only one year away
from degrees in both electrical engin-
eering and applied mathematics. He
likes music, photography, reading and
swimming, having spent two years on
the NCSU swim team. Greg tells us
that, after several years of lifeguarding
and coaching swimming in the
summers, he's happy with “an air-
conditioned job far away from
screaming children." He's engaged and
hence goes around a bit glassy-eyed
sometimes.

Scott Royston is a rising senior
at what he calls the "prestigious whole
grain academic center" of Rice
University. After growing up in
Rockville, MD, which he calls "the
Mecca of toad farming", he's now
playing cowboy in Houston while
pursuing his degree in Mechanical
Engineering. Scott says his head got
good and brain-baked painting houses
for the previous two summers, the
latter of which saw him fall off a roof,

and somehow it makes him happy to
be working here with us for awhile.
OTHER NEWSLETTERS

EIB is certainly not the only
organization with a healthy and
informative newsletter. We have seen
a very interesting bulletin called On
The Air, put out by Elizabeth Waddell
in EPA's Region 10 office in Seattle.
Call her about it at (800) 424-4EPA or
(206) 553-8578. There is also a
helpful periodical being produced by
the Wisconsin agency which deals
with emission factors and inventories,
and for information on this one,
contact Ralph Patterson at the WI
DNR Bureau Of Air Management, Box
7921, Madison, WI 53707.

If everyone else putting out
newsletters will send us copies, we'll
be glad to exchange issues with you
and to mention your work here, which
will "expose" you to our more than
4300 addressees in the U. S., its
territories and 43 other countries.
— Jim Southerland

— THE HUMAN FACTORS ... KEITH BAUGUES —

The Emission Inventory Branch
member in the spotlight this issue is
our favorite ole Hoosier of French
lineage, Keith Baugues. Keith holds
down EIB's vanguard position on the
topics of emission projections,
biogenic emission estimations and the
major issues involving the role of
photochemical modeling in emission
inventory development.

Keith was born and reared in West
Terre Haute, Indiana, and has a B. S.
degree from Rose Hulman Institute Of
Technology in Terre Haute. After
graduation, he worked for over 6 years
with the Indiana Air Pollution Control
Division in Indianapolis, where he
became Chief of the Modeling And
Data Analysis Section. Then for a
time, he was a consultant in the
private sector, first with an EPA
contractor in Chicago, then with

another in Dallas. In January 1984,
Keith joined the EPA at its Regional
Office in Dallas, and he came here to

the Office Of Air Quality Planning
And Standards in December of that
same year. Before joining EIB and

taking up his present tasks, Keith
analyzed ambient NMOC and NO,

data, prepared O3 design values,
prepared and provided guidance on how
to use photochemical models, and
oversaw the development of inven-
tories for use in ROM, the Regional
Oxidant Model.

Keith and his wife live in Durham
with their son. Away from the desk,
he enjoys reading (mostly science
fiction), listening to music (almost
anything but jazz and C&W), and
playing basketball and tennis. His
concentrated gaze can take the fur right
off the ball. Keith can be reached at
EIB by mail, by phoning (919) 541-
5366, or through The CHIEF Bulletin
Board E-mail. Remember to
pronounce both syllables in his last
name, although he'll stilJ talk to you
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THE EMISSION INVENTORY BRANCH

J. David Mobley, Chief
(919) 541-4676
Sherry Russell, Secy.

EMISSION FACTOR AND
METHODOLOGIES SECTION

Jim Southerland, Chief
(919) 541-5522

Dennis Beauregard

Michael Hamlin

Whit Joyner

Joe McSorley

Ron Myers

Anne Pope

Ron Ryan

Dallas Safriet

Dennis Shipman

Edna Winstead, Secy.

INVENTORY GUIDANCE AND
EVALUATION SECTION

Marty Martinez, Chief
(919) 541-0875

Richard Basom

Keith Baugues

Steve Bromberg

Sharon Bruno

Lee Gabele

Bill Kuykendal

David Misenheimer
Laurel Schultz

Mary Ann Warner-Selph
Susan Curtis, Secy.



DIRECT ASSISTANCE FOR EMISSION INVENTORY PREPARERS —

To provide quick and direct help to
those preparing emission inventories,
the CHIEF BB now is listing
questions and answers which have
come up through the EIB Direct
Assistance Program. Frequently
encountered problems in reviewing
emission inventories are also listed,
with suggestions on how they can be
dealt with, An “Alert” will appear on
the CHIEF screen to direct you to the
new information. If you need quick
assistance with your inventory work,
you can send us your questions under
the "Public Messages" part of The
CHIEF BB. We will have a response

to you within a week of receiving your
inquiry.

This program is going full speed
ahead, and it has already met with
success. The Direct Assistance Team
has conducted workshops in Missouri,
Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey,
Texas, Louisiana and Delaware, to
give participants a lot of valuable
assistance in preparing their
inventories. Other States have
requested our visits, and we will be
going to them as the program
progresses. We are using The CHIEF
BB to get information to you even
quicker than through the visits. For

example, the bulletin board now offers
technical memoranda discussing
emissions from wineries, underground
storage tanks, and several other
sources. We hope to convince you all
that "We're from the Government, and
we're here to help you" is true at the
Emission Inventory Branch!

For more information about the
Direct Assistance Program, or with
any questions on the technical
memoranda, contact Sharon Bruno here
at the Newsletter, phone (919) 541-
2825. A

DRAFT GUIDANCE AVAILABLE ON EMISSION STATEMENTS —

A draft of the document, Guidance
On The Implementation Of An
Emission Statement Program, is now
available. This document was pre-
pared in response to a provision in the
1990 CAAA requiring that sources in
both ozone nonattainment areas and
attainment areas of ozone transport
must submit a statement listing their

actual VOC and NO, emissions. The
guidance serves to interpret this
provision in the Clean Air Act by
addressing 1) which sources are subject
to the requirement, 2) what constitutes
an emission statement, 3) what should
be submitted, and 4) the dates for these
submissions.

This document is being placed on
the bulletin board, also.

For copies of the draft guidance, call
the Info CHIEF at (919) 541-5285.
For more information about the
program, contact Mary Ann Warner-
Selph here at the Newsletter, phone
(919) 541-1192, #4

— — DOWN IN THE EFMS CHIEF'S CORNER — -

Recently, I gave the readers an
overview of our plans for a complete
update for AP-42, EPA's longest
running and all-time best selling
document. This effort is well under
way, and significant activity has taken
place, affecting each AP-42 chapter.
Some new sections are being added,
some revised, and some for now only
superficially modified. In the
upcoming Supplement E, which will
go into printing in October, I had
projected a "hope" to update as much
as 75% of the book. I've come to
realize what a big bite that is — many
hundreds of pages — and now the sights
are lowered to a more realistic 40 -
50%. It now looks as if the rest of
this huge update work will follow in a
Supplement F about October 1993.

The reasons for the delay are
severalfold. We have had a

multiplicity of projects in our office,
many of them with timetables and
other requirements, many of them
mandated under the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990, and all has
strained our resources and capabilities.
Also, there have been problems with
contract capacity, contractor and
contract personnel availability, new
data and numerous comments at the
advanced stages of the work - a
plethora of delays here and there. Not
to whine and complain too much, but
it's clear that Murphy has been
working on our plans.

We have started putting draft AP-42
sections on The CHIEF BB for you to
see and to comment on, so tap in
periodically and look at what's there.
Remember — these drafts are subject to
change. They are in a special part of
the bulletin board, away from the

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current sections and any final sections
not yet published in a supplement.
The first major draft update to go on
the BB was the new AP-42 Chapter 12
on petroleum storage tanks.

We think you're going to like the
improvements, format changes and
significantly enhanced factors. After
the big AP-42 update program is
finished, maybe our lives can get back
to a more organized pace. Meanwhile,
please bear with us.

NEW PEOPLE

EIB has been helped in its recent
work by the arrival of four talented
people.

Richard Basom, following a long
career with IBM, has come to us as a
computer technician in the Agency's
Senior Environmental Employment
Program. He has over 23 years
experience in the computer industry,
significantly involved with system


THE SOUTH COAST AQMD'S RECLAIM PROGRAM —

The South Coast Air Quality
Management District is developing a
regulatory program called the Regional
Clean Air Incentives Market
(RECLAIM). RECLAIM will require
a 5% annual reduction of mass
emissions from all sources of volatile
organic compounds, nitrogen oxides
and sulfur oxides. These sources can
be flexible in determining which of
them should be controlled to achieve
the requisite 5% per year decrease.

Under this program, most sources
which expected to participate will have
to install continuous emission
monitoring devices. Some of the
sources, storage tanks for example, do
not lend themselves easily to stack
monitoring, and it is proposed that
these sources use AP-42 factors.

This program is a positive step
which could be quite effective.
However, to meet its demands, it may
be necessary to develop new techniques

for estimating emissions which require
far more resources than traditionally
have been devoted to producing factors
in AP-42, We plan to follow the
RECLAIM program closely and to be
actively involved as it progresses and
is implemented.

For more information about the
RECLAIM program, contact Dennis
Beauregard here at the Newsletter,
phone (919) 541-5512. 4

88 — 03/CO INVENTORY PREPARATION PLAN (IPP) STATUS - Final IPPs for 43 States were due to the Regions
on October 1, 1991. All 45 plans have been received in both draft and final form, and 38 plans have been approved. EIB will
continue to work with the Regions on their strategies for dealing with any problems. For more information, contact Lee
Gabele at the Newsletter, phone (919) 541-5292.

88 — SURFACE COAL MINING - Section 234 of the 1990 CAAA requires that emission factors and models applying to
surface coal mining activities be reviewed and revised, to assure that they don't overpredict emissions. EIB, with the Source
Receptor Analysis Branch, is planning a multiyear program to meet the CAAA provision, and we will begin source testing
this Summer of high priority surface coal mining operations. For more information, contact Dennis Shipman at the
Newsletter, phone (919) 541-5477,

88 — CRUSHED STONE PROCESSING - EIB has begun source testing of tertiary crushers and screens to develop PM-10
factors for AP-42 Section 8.19.2. Two facilities have been tested, and the next test is scheduled for early summer. For more
information, contact Dennis Shipman at the Newsletter, phone (919) 541-5477.

88 — REMEMBER THE INFO CHIEF FOCAL POINT — We have activated a central telephone contact here at the
Newsletter to answer general questions and to direct your calls to the technical staff people who can best help you. If you
already know whom you want to talk with here, please call her or him. But if your inquiry is general in nature, or if you
need further information, first try the Info CHIEF at (919) 541-5285.

88 — AUTO-MOTIVATION — A car produces about 20 pounds of CO) with each gallon of gasoline used. A well-tuned car

with properly inflated tires can use 20% less gas than a poorly running one with slack tires, for an annual reduction of about
1000 Ibs of CO, Also: drive less, pool your cars, take the train.

8 — LIGHT BULBS GOING OFF — Replacing one ordinary 50 watt incandescent bulb, used about 4 hours a day, with a
fluorescent bulb giving the same amount of light (lumens) can save 110 Ibs of CO, per year.

98 — RECYCLE! — Turning in 100 aluminum cans saves 34 pounds of CO,; 100 average glass bottles recycled save 30
Ibs. Recycle 100 Ibs of paper and eliminate 20 Ibs of CO2. 4

REGRETS, REGRETS, REGRETS. ...

To all who called and wrote about getting your own 1992 - The Year Of The Emissions
Inventory tee shirts, we can only apologize and admit we've gone down for the third time
in the Sea Of Red Tape. As some of you already know, questions about use of the
Agency seal and about handling the costs and receipts involved proved to be stronger than
our desire to call a lot of attention to getting those emission inventories done.

Thanks to everyone who contacted us. It was a good idea. #



OFFICE OF ATR QUALITY PLANNING AND STANDARDS we
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARI

EMISSION INVENTORY BRANCH

TECHNICAL SUPPORT DIVISION (MD 14)

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WuiTMEL M. JOYNER, EDITOR

JuLy 1992

AIR CHIEF CD-ROM, VERSION 2.0 BETA,
Is NOW AVAILABLE

The Emission Inventory Branch
(EIB) has released the second version
of its latest air emissions tool, the Air
CHIEF CD-ROM (Compact Disc-
Read Only Memory). Air CHIEF
compiles numerous documents and
other emission estimation products
into a single compact disc. These
products include the entire stationary
source volume of AP-42; the Locating
And Estimating... series of toxic
emission reports; and the two data
bases, XATEF and SPECIATE, which
address emissions from toxic air
pollutants. The Air CHIEF CD

allows for easy search and retrieval of
emission estimation data, by pollutant
or source description. Air CHIEF is
updated annually. The disc and its
user's manual are distributed free of
charge to government agencies and
nonprofit organizations and are
available to others from the Govern-
ment Printing Office (GPO) at a price
of $15.00, Users will need an IBM®
compatible personal computer and a
CD-ROM player. A brochure is
available describing Air CHIEF, its
equipment requirements and technical
data, and GPO ordering information.

For more information about Air
CHIEF, or to get the CD brochure,
contact the Info CHIEF service phone
line, (919) 541-5285, or write Info
CHIEF, US EPA (MD 14), Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711.
An ordering form for the Air CHIEF
compact disc from the Government
Printing Office can be found on p. 7
below. The form may be copied, if
you wish to keep your Newsletter
intact. For further information, call
the Info CHIEF, (919) 541-5285. #

KUDOS! - For TIMELY EMISSION INVENTORY SUBMISSIONS -

EIB takes this opportunity to applaud and to congratulate the following States and Localities for meeting the May |
deadline for submitting a Draft 1990 Base Year Emission Inventory:

Kentucky Oregon

Alabama Washoe Co., NV
Massachusetts (for CO)
Albuquerque, NM Washington

Here at EIB and in the Regional Offices, we sincerely appreciate your efforts, and we're glad to give you recognition for
your work. Our "kv506" goes out to you, and we are looking forward to working with you on your FINAL entries! These
timely responses from you have strongly emphasized the concept that 1992 is THE YEAR OF THE EMISSION
INVENTORY.

More draft inventories are arriving as this is written, and we hope to have over half of the total in hand by the time you read
this. 4

This newsletter is printed on recycled paper.


UPCOMING MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

— National Title III Implementation Workshop, 12-14 August, Durham, NC. Contact Kathy Ward, Alliance Technologies, 100 Europa Drive,

Suite 150, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, phone (919) 968-9900.

— Symposium On Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Mitigation Research, EPA/Acurex Environmental, 18-20 August, Washington, DC, phone

(919) 544-5690

— 9th World Clean Air Congress & Exhibition, AWMA/Environment Canada, 30 August-4 September, Montreal, Canada Contact Marci
Mazzei, AWMA, Box 2861, Pittsburgh, PA 15230, phone (412) 232-3444/FAX (412) 232-3450.

— Emission Inventory Issues And Progress, second annual EPA/AWMA specialty conference, 19-22 October, Durham, NC Contact Larry
Jones, Emissions Modeling Branch (MD 62), EPA/AEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, phone (919) 541-7716; or John O'Connor,

Radian Corp , Box 1

3000, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, phone (919) 541-9100 4

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NEW MOBILE SOURCE INFORMATION —

Two new products are available to
help in the estimation of emissions
from motor vehicles, both on- and off-
highway. EPA's Office Of Mobile
Sources (OMS) has completed its
latest revision of Procedures For
Emission Inventory Preparation,
Volume IV: Mobile Sources, EPA-
450/4-81-026d Revised. This is the
third and latest version of this volume,
first published in 1981 and reworked in
1989, and of course, it supersedes both

earlier ones. It contains an overview
of the mobile source category,
identifying specific methods which can
be used to identity sources, estimate
their emissions, and establish and
maintain a useful, current vehicle
emission inventory. When men-
tioning this guidance, remember to
specify the 1992 version. Paper
copies of this document can be gotten
from the Info CHIEF, (919)541-5285,

UPDATE FROM THE CHIEF BB —

Bulletin Board activity continues to
grow, and we now have over 675
registered CHIEF users. Since the last
Newsletter, there have been several
improvements installed on the BB.
We are still opening more access lines
for you to reach the BB, and some of
the questions that have arisen during
registration about the necessary
configuration of your systems have
been eliminated. In addition to the list
of current Alerts, there is now a list of
old Alerts for those who want to make
sure they're up to date. Current Alerts
will stay on the list for at least a
month before they become "old" and
are moved off the current list.

The new draft updates of AP-42

sections are coming in continuously,
and they are being put on the bulletin
board as they arrive. We encourage
you to review these drafts, and we
hope you'll give us any comments you
have on them. You can do this easily
through the E-mail capability on the
BB. Remember that the drafts are
subject to change before their
publication in an AP-42 Supplement.
The Surface Impoundment Modeling
System (SIMS) is still the most
popular data base downloaded from The
CHIEF BB. New programs and
information on the BB_ include
WATER 7, CHEMDAT 7, and several
memos from EIB's Inventory Guidance
And Evaluation Section regarding the

and from the CH/EF bulletin board
here.

Also, The beta version of the
emission factor model, MOBILES,
will presently be available soon for
distribution. As soon as this pc
program is ready, probably some time
in August, it will be put on our BB.

For further information on either of
these items, contact Natalie Dobie at
OMS, phone (313) 741-7812.

Direct Assistance Program, which is
discussed on p. 4 below. These
memos have helpful material on
assessing such sources as wineries,
bakeries, landfills and municipal waste
combustors. Also, the long awaited
TANKS pe program for estimating
VOC storage emissions, will be
available on The CHIEF BB about
August 1.

Let us hear from you — help us
make the bulletin board as useful as
we can with your comments and
suggestions. Write, phone or E-mail
to Michael Hamlin, bulletin board
System Operator, here at the
Newsletter. 40

EIBERS TEACH FOUR EMISSION ESTIMATION COURSES
AT THE AWMA MEETING & THE COMING SPECIALTY CONFERENCE

Jim Southerland and Anne Pope were involved in teaching four popular courses at the 1992 annual Air & Waste
Management Association gathering in Kansas City, and they will repeat this important work at the Emission Inventory
Issues And Progress specialty conference this October in Durham, NC (See "Upcoming Meetings", p. 7). These classes are
clear opportunities to learn about EIB's tools for estimating air emissions of criteria and toxic pollutants, and people are
taking advantage of them in considerable numbers. In Kansas City, some actually rearranged their plans to stay beyond the
scheduled hours. These are the courses:

AIR 150 - Overview Of EPA (And Related) Air Emissions Data Reporting (Jim Southerland and Anne Pope) - This course
defined the various air emission reporting needs and requirements for EPA. It provided information on how different reporting
requirements are related, and it included general assistance on locating tools for estimation.

AIR 152 - Demonstration And Hands-on Experience With EPA's Emission Estimation Tools (Anne Pope and Jim
Southerland) - This course covered the use of EIB's pe data base management systems (XATEF and SPECIATE), the Air
CHIEF CD-ROM, and The CHIEF Bulletin Board System. Attendees were provided with these tools and shown how to use
them, and this proved to be a very popular event.

AIR 154 - Estimating Evaporative Emissions From Storage Tanks (Bill Moody/MRI, Robin Barker/MRI, and Anne Pope)
- This course examined the various types of storage tanks used for organic liquids and the variables that affect their air
emissions. The newly revised AP-42 equations for estimating emissions from storage tanks were presented. TANKS, EIB's

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new pc program that computerizes the new AP-42 equations, was demonstrated and provided to the attendees. (Look for this
program on The CHIEF bulletin board around the first of August.)

AIR 156 - Estimating Fugitive Particulates From Various Sources (John Kinsey/MRI and Jim Southerland) - This course
gave guidance on PM-10 emission estimation procedures and inventory techniques for open fugitive dust sources. It presented
basic terminology, data requirements, calculation procedures and decision criteria, with detailed examples of emission

inventory applications, #9

INTEGRATING EMISSIONS DATA REPORTING —

Before 1985, estimated emissions
data were gathered primarily for the
annual National Emissions Data
System (NEDS) reporting, under the
Code Of Federal Regulations, or for
occasional nonattainment area State
Implementation Plan (SIP) devel-
opment. Since that time, emissions
reporting requirements have markedly
increased for many pollutants and
sources, particularly industrial sources.
This significant expansion has resulted
from the Superfund Amendments And
Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title III
release reporting requirements, which
particularly involve toxic air
pollutants; and from requirements of
the Clean Air Act. As a result of the
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
(CAAA), EPA has been busy
implementing the requirements in the
Act's eleven Titles.

Each Title establishes one or more
emissions reporting requirements, such
as emissions statements, operating
permits, emission compliance report-
ing, acid precipitation, and expanded
SIPs. Then, each reporting require-
ment must be implemented by sources
and State control agencies, and must
be tracked by EPA.

The expansion of the number and
types of emissions data reporting has
prompted the Emission Inventory
Branch to begin long-term discussions
among the various federal emissions
programs, in hopes of coordinating
efforts toward streamlining data
collection for individual plants, State
and Local agency experts, and EPA
Headquarters and Regional staff. As a
first step in this process, EIB is
identifying sources’ emission reporting
requirements to EPA and other federal

UPDATE ON BIOGENIC EMISSIONS —

Supplemental guidance is now
available on the CH/EF bulletin board
which will detail how States should
prepare the meteorological files to run
the Personal Computer program on the
Biogenic Emissions Inventory System
(PC-BEIS).

In addition, to make this an easier
process for the States, meteorological
files for each nonattainment area, ready
for use with PC-BEIS, will be
uploaded to The CHIEF BB at the
same time as the guidance. States are
encouraged to use these meteorological

agencies. Several issues have already
been identified that must be resolved,
involving reporting frequency,
synchronized timing of submissions,
incompatible data element require-
ments, inconsistent data element
definitions, and inconsistent size
cutoffs.

The ultimate goal of this effort is to
integrate, to the extent possible, the
different emissions reporting require-
ments. Doing this should help ease
the reporting burden on emission
sources and on State/local air pollution
control agencies. EIB will also be
addressing each of the previously
mentioned issues as well as any new
problems uncovered in the process of
resolving these issues. For more
information, contact David Misen-
heimer at the Newsletter, phone (919)
541-5473. 4

files to speed up the computation of
biogenic emissions.

Any questions on this program
should be addressed to Keith Baugues
at the Newsletter, phone (919) 541-
5366. 4

1992 Is THE YEAR OF
THE EMISSION INVENTORY!

- FINAL EMISSION INVENTORIES FOR O3/CO NONATTAINMENT AREAS

ARE DUE TO EPA BY 11/15/92.

DRAFTS ARE DUE NOW!