From: Herb, Nancy

Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:21 AM

To: Mahinske, Jane

Subject: FW: James River Face and Shenandoah Consultation

Hi Jane - email below is confirmation that VA is not looking for additional reduction/consultation from PA.

-----Original Message-----

From: McLeod,Doris [mailto:damcleod@deq.virginia.gov]

Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:47 AM

To: Herb, Nancy

Cc: Ballou,Thomas

Subject: James River Face and Shenandoah Consultation

Hey Nancy,

Sorry I didn’t get this to you last night. 

VA is not asking PA for any additional reductions or for further consultation during this round of RH since our analysis shows that 

maximum normalized contribution of any PA source to Shenandoah or James River Face is <1%. For Shenandoah, the highest shown 

in the area of influence calculation is a facility called Cambria Cogen, 42-021-0046, with a calculated influence of 0.42%. The highest 

shown in the area of influence calculation for James River Face is a facility labeled PADEP BAQ, 42-007-0032, with a calculated 

influence of 0.15%. These calcs are all based on estimated 2018 emissions. 

Hope this helps, 

Doris McLeod

Air Quality Planner, VDEQ

804-698-4197 (phone)

804-698-4510 (fax)

damcleod@deq.virginia.gov

NOTE: New Mailing Address

P.O. Box 1105

Richmond, VA 23218

-----Original Message-----

From: Laura Crowder [mailto:LCROWDER@wvdep.org] 

Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:07 AM

To: McLeod,Doris; Nancy Herb

Cc: Jane Mahinske; Fred Durham

Subject: RE: James River Face and Shenandoah

Nancy,

You are correct, we are not going to ask PA to make any additional reductions or to consult further. Our analysis 

shows that PA sources contribute 5.26% to visibility impairment at Dolly Sods and the largest contribution from a 

single unit is 0.58% from Allegheny's Hatfield Ferry Unit 32, with next two largest contributors also being units at 

Hatfield Ferry, each with a contribution of 0.57%. 

Laura

Laura Mae Crowder

Division of Air Quality

phone: (304) 926-0499 ext. 1247

fax: (304) 926-0478

email: lcrowder@wvdep.org

>>> "Herb, Nancy" <nherb@state.pa.us> 9/12/2007 9:06 AM >>>

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Hi Laura and Doris,

I realized there was one more item I wanted to follow up on with you. I believe I may have spoken to Doris about it 

before, but I wanted to confirm that Virginia and West Virginia are not identifying Pennsylvania as an important 

contributor to visibility impairment in their Class I areas and are not requesting that Pennsylvania participate in their 

state-to-state consultation process for the first round of regional haze SIPs.

Thanks again,

Nancy

-----Original Message-----

From: Laura Crowder [mailto:LCROWDER@wvdep.org]

Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:41 AM

To: Doris McLeod; Nancy Herb

Cc: Jane Mahinske

Subject: RE: James River Face and Shenandoah

Nancy,

Dolly Sods is representative of Otter Creek. (There is not a monitor at Otter Creek.)

Laura

Laura Mae Crowder

Division of Air Quality

phone: (304) 926-0499 ext. 1247

fax: (304) 926-0478

email: lcrowder@wvdep.org

>>> "Herb, Nancy" <nherb@state.pa.us> 9/11/2007 7:34 AM >>>

Hi Doris,

Thanks so much for getting this to me so quickly! I really appreciate it. I added information to our SIP about 

the IMPROVE monitor locations, natural background and baseline conditions for Dolly Sods, Otter Creek, 

Shenandoah, and James River Face. Some of the information I got from your powerpoint, some from the 

VIEWS database. Would you prefer that I cite VIEWS as the source or correspondence with you? I think the 

FLMs might also ask us to include calculations of the uniform rate of progress for these 4 VISTAS areas. 

And, just to confirm, the Dolly Sods monitor is the representative monitor for Otter Creek, correct?

Thanks again,

Nancy

-----Original Message-----

From: McLeod,Doris [mailto:damcleod@deq.virginia.gov]

Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:48 AM

To: Herb, Nancy

Cc: Mahinske, Jane; Laura Crowder

Subject: James River Face and Shenandoah

Hey Nancy,

First off, I apologize for the size of this file. VISTAS does much of

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their information sharing using PPT charts and graphs, and I think this

file has the most recent data available for the VA sites. We are using

the new improve equation, and there are graphs showing new vs old, as

well as the changes to the natural condition numbers.

VISTAS has a large number of Class I's, so they lumped the Class I's

into groups by geography and other similarities. Since Shen and JRF are

lumped into an Appalachian region in VISTAS, the presentation also has

Dolly Sods info in it. I am still going through the torture of

reasonable progress, and I know Laura has a jump on me with the SIP

development, so I think she can tell both of us if these are indeed the

most recent numbers. 

Let me see what else I can dig up for you.

On a related note, have you guys made any changes to your 2018 SO2

inventory based on the controls you may be expecting due to your Hg

regulation? I asked Arleen Shulman about this a while back, and it

sounded like you guys haven't made any changes to your 2018 inventory.

Just wanted to double check, though.

Doris McLeod

Air Quality Planner, VDEQ

804-698-4197 (phone)

804-698-4510 (fax)

damcleod@deq.virginia.gov

NOTE: New Mailing Address

P.O. Box 1105

Richmond, VA 23218

-----Original Message-----

From: Herb, Nancy [mailto:nherb@state.pa.us]

Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:05 AM

To: McLeod,Doris

Cc: Mahinske, Jane

Subject: regional haze

Hi Doris,

We are still working on the regional haze SIP. We had a conference call

with the FLMs at the end of August. They asked us to add information

for Virginia and West Virginia Class I areas that our emission might

affect. For example, our draft SIP included a table of MANE-VU Class I

areas and the IMPROVE monitors that represent them. The next table

contains 20% Best and 20% Worst visibility conditions for Baseline and

Natural Conditions. I can get most of the data from VIEWS, but when I

got to that 2nd table, I realized that I don't know what adjustments you

made to natural conditions or if you are using the default or

alternative methods. 

I'm attaching the 2 tables in a word document, so you can see what I'm

talking about. Do you have this information easily available, or could

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you point me to a VISTAS report?

Also, I tried to find Fred Durham's email address to ask him about WV's

areas but couldn't find it. The WV website doesn't seem to be working

right now. Do you have it? 

Thanks for your help!

Nancy 

<<RH.Tables.doc>> 

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