# OFFICE OF AIR AND

**RADIATION Sally** **S haver**  **Associate Counselor**  **for Ag Policy Office of Air and Radiation**  **March 13, 2008**

# OFFICE OF AIR & RADIATION  **Office of Air Quality**  **Planning & Standards** – **Sets ambient air quality standards and implementation guidance** – **Sets standards for stationary sources for both toxics and criteria**  **pollutants**  **Office of Transportation**  **and Air Quality** – **Sets standards for motor v ehicles**  **and engines** – **Sets standards for fuels**  **Office of Atmospheric**  **Programs** – **Ac id**  **Rain** – **Climate Change** – **Stratospheric Ozone Depletion**  **Office of Indoor Air & Radiation** 

# AIR QUALITY STANDARDS  **National Ambient Air Quality Standards**  **(NAAQS)**  **New Particulate Matter Standards (PM) in 2006**   **New Ozone Standards 2008**   **NOx and SOx reviews ongoing** –**Consideration of new indicators**  

##  **CO, Pb, and PM reviews ongoing**

## STANDARDS **IMPLEMENTATION**  Revised ozone and PM standards in 1997 – Ozone SIPs due in 2007, PM SIPs in 2008 – Attainment dates for ozone 2007 - 2024 – Attainment dates for PM 2010 - 2015 

###  Revised PM standards in 2006 – Nonattainment designations in 2008 – SIPs due 3 years later – Attainment 5 - 10 years later 

###  Revised ozone standards in 2008

# AIR ISSUES  **Implementation of NAAQS**  **Ammonia not regulated as a**  **precursor of PM2.5**  **Exceptional Events Rule –**  **Treatment of data due to natural events (fire,**  **wind)**  **Regulation of pesticide use to reduce**  **VOC emissions**  **Revision of Fire Policy**

## FIRE POLICY  **The 1998 Interim Wildland and Prescribed Fire Policy**  **does not address agriculture burning**   **EPA committed to revising this policy by** **July 2008**   **Revisions w ill**  – **Make policy consistent w**  **ith the Exceptional Events**  **Rule** – **Address agricultural burning** – **Reflect new N**  **AAQS, conformity , and regional haze**  – **Be developed by s**  **eeking input from ag community**  **at state and local level –** **Agency has initiated**  **dialogue w ith**  **NASDA**

## STATIONARY **SOURCE ISSUES**   **Applicability of CAA**  **requirements to farms** – **Source definition issue**   **What is an affected facility? (ow nership,**  **common control, support facility, etc.)**  **Case -**  **by -** **case determinations made considering multiple factors.**  – **Fugitive emissions –**  **Cannot reasonably pass through a**  **stack, chimney**  **, vent or other functionally equivalent opening**   **Industrial/Commercial Boiler MACT rule and CISWI**  **rule vacated** – **Solid Waste Definition**   **OSWI rule vacated**  – **Disposal of mortalities at AFOs** 

# MOBILE SOURCE ISSUES  Proposed Rule for renewable fuels standard program required under EISA of 2007  Locomotive and marine engines standards – March 14, 2008 

###  Spark ignition marine engines, small land based engines, and category 3 marine engines rules  Engine testing program

# MOBILE SOURCE ISSUES  Voluntary Partnership Programs to reduce emissions from in - use engines and fleets – SmartWay Transport Partnership – SmartWay Heavy Duty Truck Emissions Initiative 

###  National Clean Diesel Campaign – $49.2M for FY08  **$34.4M Direct grants**  **$14.8M for state programs**

# ATMOSPHERIC **PROGRAMS**  Climate Change – Greenhouse Gases Inventory 

###  Methane to Markets – Ag Star 

###  Energy Star  Stratospheric Ozone Protection – Montreal Protocol  **Methy l Bromide Phase Out** 

# OAR INFORMATION  **Website**  **www.epa.gov/oar Organization**  **Information Regulatory** **I nformation**  **Technical Information**  **(Technology Transfer**  **Network) Monitoring,**  **Modeling, Inventories, Air Data**