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Committee
on
Air
Emissions
from
Animal
Feeding
Operations
Project
Scope
The
Committee
on
Air
Emissions
from
Animal
Feeding
Operations
will
review
the
scientific
basis
for
estimating
air
emissions
from
concentrated
animal
feeding
and
production
systems
in
the
United
States.
The
committee
will
review
and
evaluate
the
scientific
basis
for
estimating
emissions
of
various
air
pollutants
(
including
PM10,
PM
2.5,
hydrogen
sulfide,
ammonia,
odorous
substances,
VOCs,
methane,
and
nitrous
oxide);
relevant
characteristics
of
agricultural
animal
industries
that
may
affect
emissions;
and
mitigation
techniques
and
best
management
practices
for
reducing
emissions.
The
committee
will
evaluate
the
influence
of
animal
life
stages,
weather
patterns,
and
other
biologic
and
physical
factors
on
the
variability
of
emissions
from
concentrated
animal
feeding
production
systems.
It
will
also
consider
approaches
and
information
needed
to
evaluate
local
and
long­
range
health
and
ecologic
effects
of
such
emissions.
The
committee
will
consider
relevant
literature
and
data,
including
reports
compiled
by
the
EPA
and
USDA
on
air
quality
research,
air
emissions,
and
air
quality
impacts
of
livestock
waste.
The
committee
will
identify
critical
short­
and
long­
term
research
needs
for
improving
approaches
for
estimating
emissions
and
potential
emission
mitigation
techniques.

The
sponsor
has
provided
the
committee
with
the
following
documents:
U.
S.
EPA.
"
Air
Emissions
From
Animal
Feeding
Operations."
August
15,
2001
Draft.
EPA
Contract
No.
68­
D6­
0011
Task
Order
71.

U.
S.
EPA.
"
Air
Quality
Impacts
of
Livestock
Waste."
September
2000.
EPA
Contract
No.
68­
W­
99­
042
Work
Assignment
5­
7
USDA
Agricultural
Air
Quality
Task
Force
Confined
Livestock
Air
Quality
Committee.
"
Air
Quality
Research
and
Technology
Transfer
White
Paper
and
Recommendations
for
Concentrated
Animal
Feeding
Operations."
July
19,
2000.

Sponsor:
United
States
Environmental
Protection
Agency
The
approximate
starting
date
for
the
project
is
10/
01/
2001.
Two
reports
are
planned
to
be
issued,
as
follows:
(
1)
Interim
Report,
and
(
2)
Final
Report
at
the
end
of
the
project.

Meeting
Schedule
January
7­
8,
2002
Washington,
DC
January
24­
26,
2002
Durham,
North
Carolina
February
24­
26,
2002
Denver,
Colorado
June
3­
5,
2002
Sacramento,
California
August
19­
21
Washington,
DC
Committee
on
Air
Emissions
from
Animal
Feeding
Operations
Board
on
Agriculture
and
Natural
Resources
National
Research
Council
Harris
Building
394
2001
Wisconsin
Avenue,
NW
Washington,
DC
20007
tel
202­
334­
3062
fax
202­
334­
1978
ba@
nas.
edu
Committee
Membership
PERRY
R.
HAGENSTEIN,
Chair,
Institute
for
Forest
Analysis,
Planning,
and
Policy
ROBERT
G.
FLOCCHINI,
Vice­
Chair,
University
of
California,
Davis
JOHN
C.
BAILAR
III,
University
of
Chicago
CANDIS
CLAIBORN,
Washington
State
University
RUSSELL
R.
DICKERSON,
University
of
Maryland,
College
Park
JAMES
N.
GALLOWAY,
University
of
Virginia
MARGARET
ROSSO
GROSSMAN,
University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana­
Champaign
PRASAD
KASIBHATLA,
Duke
University
RICHARD
A.
KOHN,
University
of
Maryland,
College
Park
MICHAEL
P.
LACY,
University
of
Georgia
CALVIN
B.
PARNELL,
Jr.,
Texas
A&
M
University
ROBBI
H.
PRITCHARD,
South
Dakota
State
University
WAYNE
P.
ROBARGE,
North
Carolina
State
University
DANIEL
A.
WUBAH,
James
Madison
University
KELLY
D.
ZERING,
North
Carolina
State
University
RUIHONG
ZHANG,
University
of
California,
Davis
STAFF
Board
on
Agriculture
and
Natural
Resources:

CHARLOTTE
KIRK
BAER,
Program
Director
JAMIE
S.
JONKER,
Program
Officer
TANJA
PILZAK,
Research
Assistant
STEPHANIE
PADGHAM,
Project
Assistant
Board
on
Environmental
Studies
and
Toxicology:

RAYMOND
WASSEL,
Program
Director
CHAD
TOLMAN,
Program
Officer
BRYAN
SHIPLEY,
Project
Assistant
Committee
on
Air
Emissions
from
Animal
Feeding
Operations
Committee
Biographies
Perry
R.
Hagenstein,
Ph.
D.
(
Chair)
is
president
of
the
Institute
for
Forest
Analysis,
Planning,
and
Policy,
a
non­
profit
research
and
education
organization.
Prior
to
this,
he
was
executive
director
of
the
New
England
Natural
Resources
Center
and
served
as
a
Charles
Bullard
Research
Fellow
at
the
John
F.
Kennedy
School
of
Government
at
Harvard.
He
also
served
as
senior
policy
analyst
for
the
U.
S.
Public
Land
Law
Review
Commission
and
was
a
principal
economist
for
the
USDA
Forest
Service.
Hagenstein
received
his
B.
S.
(
1952)
from
the
University
of
Minnesota,
M.
F.
(
1953)
from
Yale
University,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1963)
in
forest
and
natural
resources
economics
from
the
University
of
Michigan.
He
currently
serves
on
the
NRC
Board
on
Agriculture
and
Natural
Resources
and
previously
on
the
Board
on
Earth
Sciences
and
Resources
and
Board
on
Mineral
and
Energy
Resources.
Hagenstein
has
served
on
nine
prior
NRC
committees
including
the
Committee
on
Noneconomic
and
Economic
Value
of
Biodiversity:
Application
for
Ecosystem
Management,
Committee
on
Hardrock
Mining
on
Federal
Lands
(
Chair),
the
Committee
on
Onshore
Oil
and
Gas
Leasing
(
Chair),
and
the
Committee
on
Abandoned
Mine
Lands
(
Chair).

Robert
G.
Flocchini,
Ph.
D.
(
Vice­
Chair)
is
professor
of
the
Department
of
Land,
Air
and
Water
Resources
and
director
of
the
Crocker
Nuclear
Laboratory
at
University
of
California,
Davis.
His
interests
include
the
identification,
transport,
and
fate
of
particulate
matter
with
regard
to
agricultural
sources
and
application
of
nuclear
techniques
for
emission
measurement
and
characterization
in
agriculture
and
environment.
He
received
his
B.
A.
(
1969)
from
the
University
of
San
Francisco,
and
M.
A.
(
1971)
and
Ph.
D.
(
1974)
in
Physics
from
the
University
of
California,
Davis.
Flocchini
currently
serves
as
a
member
of
the
USDA
Task
Force
on
Agricultural
Air
Quality
and
trustee
of
the
National
Institute
for
Global
Environmental
Change.
He
only
receives
research
funding
from
USDA
on
"
Sources
and
Sinks
of
PM10
in
California's
San
Joaquin
Valley."

John
C.
Bailar
III,
M.
D.,
Ph.
D.
is
Professor
Emeritus
at
the
University
of
Chicago.
He
is
a
retired
commissioned
officer
of
the
U.
S.
Public
Health
Service,
and
worked
for
the
National
Cancer
Institute
for
22
years.
He
has
also
held
academic
appointments
at
Harvard
University
and
McGill
University.
Dr.
Bailar's
research
interests
include
assessing
health
risks
from
chemical
hazards
and
air
pollutants
and
interpreting
statistical
evidence
in
medicine,
with
a
special
emphasis
on
cancer.
Bailar
received
his
B.
A.
(
1953)
from
the
University
of
Colorado,
M.
D.
(
1955)
from
Yale
University,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1971)
in
statistics
from
American
University.
He
is
a
member
of
the
Institute
of
Medicine
and
has
served
on
over
twenty
NRC
committees
including
the
Committee
on
Estimating
the
Health­
Risk­
Reduction
Benefits
of
Proposed
Air
Regulations
(
Chair),
Committee
on
Risk
Assessment
of
Hazardous
Air
Pollutants,
and
Committee
on
Epidemiology
of
Air
Pollutants.

Candis
Claiborn,
Ph.
D.,
is
an
associate
professor
in
the
Department
of
Civil
and
Environmental
Engineering
at
Washington
State
University.
Prior
to
that
she
was
a
senior
process
control
engineer
at
ARCO
Petroleum
Products
and
a
process
engineer
at
Chevron.
Her
areas
of
expertise
include
airborne
particulate
matter
measurement,
characterization,
and
emissions,
and
air
pollution
control.
She
received
her
B.
S.
(
1980)
in
chemical
engineering
from
the
University
of
Idaho
and
Ph.
D.
(
1991)
from
North
Carolina
State
University.
Claiborn
was
a
member
of
the
Western
Governor's
Association's
"
Western
Regional
Air
Partnership
Expert
Panel
on
Windblown
and
Mechanically
Generated
Fugitive
Dust"
and
contributing
author
for
the
USEPA
"
Air
Quality
Criteria
Development
for
Particulate
Matter".
She
currently
receives
15
percent
of
her
research
funding
as
subcontracts
from
other
universities
with
EPA
grants
in
the
areas
of
air
emissions
and
particulate
matter
characterization.

Russell
R.
Dickerson,
Ph.
D.
is
professor
and
chair
(
effective
1
July
2002)
of
the
Department
of
Meteorology
at
the
University
of
Maryland,
College
Park.
Prior
to
Maryland,
he
worked
at
the
National
Center
for
Atmospheric
Research
and
at
the
Max
Planck
Institute
for
Chemistry,
in
Mainz,
Germany.
He
received
his
A.
B.
(
1975)
from
the
University
of
Chicago,
and
M.
S.
(
1978)
from
the
University
of
Michigan,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1980)
in
Chemistry
from
the
University
of
Michigan.
His
areas
of
expertise
include
atmospheric
chemistry,
air
pollution,
and
biogeochemical
cycles
with
an
emphasis
on
NOx,
O
3,
CO,
black
carbon,
and
ammonia.
Dickerson
previously
served
on
the
NRC
Panel
to
Review
the
Langley
Distributed
Active
Archive
Center
(
DAAC)
and
US/
Mid
East
Research
Grants
Panel.
He
has
previously
received
research
funding
from
EPA
for
research
on
gaseous
and
particulate
pollutants.

James
N.
Galloway,
Ph.
D.
is
professor
Department
of
Environmental
Sciences
at
the
University
of
Virginia
and
is
currently
a
visiting
scientist
at
the
Marine
Biological
Laboratory
and
the
Woods
Hole
Oceanographic
Institution.
His
major
interests
include
the
biogeochemistry
of
emissions,
transport,
and
fate
of
nitrogen
and
sulfur
and
their
potential
effects
on
ecology.
He
received
his
B.
A.
(
1966)
from
Whittier
College
and
Ph.
D.
(
1972)
in
chemistry
from
the
University
of
California,
San
Diego.
Galloway
has
given
expert
testimony
to
state
and
federal
agencies
and
legislatures
on
environmental
issues.
Galloway
has
previously
served
on
the
NRC
Global
Climate
Change
Study
Panel
(
Chair),
Panel
on
Processes
of
Lake
Acidification,
Tri­
Academy
Committee
on
Acid
Deposition,
and
Committee
on
Transport
and
Transformation
Chemistry
in
Acid
Deposition.
He
received
research
funding
from
the
Chesapeake
Bay
Program
on
"
Atmospheric
Deposition
of
Organic
Nitrogen."

Margaret
Rosso
Grossman,
Ph.
D.,
J.
D.,
is
professor
of
agricultural
law
in
the
Department
of
Agricultural
and
Consumer
Economics
at
the
University
of
Illinois.
She
has
spent
sabbatical
leaves
(
1986­
87,
1993­
94,
2000­
01)
and
many
summers
in
the
Law
and
Governance
Group
(
formerly
Department
of
Agrarian
Law)
at
Wageningen
University,
The
Netherlands.
Her
research
interests
include
domestic
and
international
agricultural
and
environmental
law.
She
received
her
B.
Mus.
(
1969)
from
the
University
of
Illinois,
A.
M.
(
1970)
from
Stanford
University,
Ph.
D.
(
1977)
from
the
University
of
Illinois,
and
J.
D.
(
1979)
from
the
University
of
Illinois.
Grossman
is
past
president
(
1991)
of
the
American
Agricultural
Law
Association
and
received
the
AALA
Distinguished
Service
Award
(
1993).
She
was
awarded
the
Silver
Medal
of
the
European
Council
for
Agricultural
Law
(
1999),
and
she
has
received
three
Fulbright
grants
to
support
her
research
in
Europe.
Grossman
is
a
member
of
the
Bar
in
Illinois
and
the
District
of
Columbia
(
inactive).

Prasad
Kasibhatla,
Ph.
D.
is
associate
professor
Division
of
Environmental
Science
and
Policy
at
Duke
University.
His
areas
of
expertise
include:
tropospheric
chemistry
and
transport;
global
tropospheric
oxidants;
global
tropospheric
aerosols;
regional
air
quality;
anthropogenic
impacts
on
atmospheric
composition
and
ecosystems;
and
global
and
regional
tropospheric
chemistry
modeling.
He
received
his
B.
S.
(
1982)
from
the
University
of
Bombay,
M.
S.
(
1984)
from
the
University
of
Kentucky,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1988)
in
chemical
engineering
from
the
University
of
Kentucky.
Kasibhatla
has
previously
served
on
the
NASA
Committee
for
Measurement
of
Air
Pollution
from
Satellites
and
proposal
review
panels
for
NOAA
and
DOE
atmospheric
chemistry
programs.

Richard
A.
Kohn,
Ph.
D.
is
associate
professor
Department
of
Animal
and
Avian
Sciences
at
the
University
of
Maryland.
His
areas
of
expertise
include
environmental
impact
of
animal
production
systems;
effect
of
diet
on
nitrogen
and
phosphorous
excretion;
and
modeling
of
nutrient
metabolism
and
whole
farm
nutrient
management.
He
received
his
B.
S.
(
1985)
from
Cornell
University,
M.
S.
(
1987)
from
the
University
of
New
Hampshire,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1993)
in
animal
science
from
Michigan
State
University
all
in
animal
science.
In
1999,
Kohn
gave
an
invited
presentation
on
"
Calculating
the
environmental
impact
of
animal
feeding
and
management"
to
the
NRC
Committee
on
Animal
Nutrition.
He
currently
receives
USDA
funding
for
research
on
effects
of
animal
nutrition
on
nutrient
losses
to
the
environment.

Michael
P.
Lacy,
Ph.
D.
is
professor
and
chair
Department
of
Poultry
Science
at
the
University
of
Georgia.
His
area
of
expertise
is
poultry,
specifically,
production
and
management;
housing
and
equipment;
ventilation;
management
in
hot
climates;
and
mechanical
harvesting.
Lacy
received
his
B.
S.
(
1974),
M.
S.
(
1982),
and
Ph.
D.
(
1985)
from
the
Virginia
Polytechnic
Institute
&
State
University.
He
previously
had
research
funding
on
"
Ammonia
Emissions
from
Broiler
Houses"
from
the
U.
S.
Poultry
and
Egg
Association.

Calvin
B.
Parnell,
Jr.,
Ph.
D.,
PE
is
a
Regents
professor
of
the
Department
of
Biological
and
Agricultural
Engineering
(
BAEN)
at
Texas
A&
M
University.
He
has
special
expertise
in
the
air
pollution
regulatory
process,
including
permitting
and
enforcement
of
air
pollution
regulations.
His
research
expertise
includes
pollutant
measurements,
dispersion
modeling,
emission
factor
development,
and
air
pollution
abatement.
In
addition,
Parnell
is
known
for
his
expertise
of
agricultural
processing,
grain
dust
explosions,
and
energy
conversion
of
biomass.
He
received
his
B.
S.
(
1964)
from
New
Mexico
State
University,
M.
S.
(
1965)
from
Clemson
University,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1970)
in
environmental
systems
engineering
from
Clemson
University.
Parnell
is
a
registered
professional
engineer
in
Texas,
Fellow
of
the
American
Society
of
Agricultural
Engineers,
and
a
member
of
the
Air
and
Waste
Management
Association.
He
has
provided
expert
testimony
to
state
and
federal
legislatures
on
agricultural
air
quality.
Parnell
has
previously
served
on
the
Texas
Air
Control
Board
and
currently
serves
on
the
USDA
Task
Force
on
Agricultural
Air
Quality.
He
currently
receives
research
funding
from
a
Texas
Legislative
Initiative
on
"
Air
Pollution
Regulatory
Impacts
on
Agricultural
Operations".
Parnell
teaches
undergraduate
and
graduate
courses
in
air
pollution
engineering.
He
served
as
a
consultant
in
2000
for
the
J.
G.
Boswell
Company
on
emission
factors
for
dairies
and
the
air
pollution
permitting
process.

Robbi
Pritchard,
Ph.
D.
is
professor
Department
of
Animal
and
Range
Sciences
at
South
Dakota
State
University.
His
interests
include
beef
feedlot
management
and
ruminant
nutrition.
Pritchard
received
his
A.
A.
(
1975)
from
Black
Hawk
Junior
College,
B.
S.
(
1977)
and
M.
S.
(
1978)
from
Southern
Illinois
University,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1983)
in
Animal
Science
from
Washington
State
University.
He
previously
served
on
Farmland
Industries'
University
Advisory
Board
and
was
an
ex­
officio
member
of
the
Board
of
Directors
of
the
Dakota
Feed
Manufacturers.
Wayne
P.
Robarge,
Ph.
D.
is
Professor
of
Soil
Physical
Chemistry
in
the
Department
of
Soil
Science
at
North
Carolina
State
University.
His
research
interests
include
studies
of
emissions
of
ammonia
from
swine
lagoons,
temporal
and
spatial
patterns
in
ambient
ammonia
and
ammonium
aerosol
concentrations,
nitrogen
budgets
using
Geographical
Information
Systems
(
GIS),
and
dry
deposition
of
ammonia
and
ammonium
aerosols
to
crop
and
woodland
canopies.
He
received
his
B.
S.
(
1969)
and
M.
S.
(
1971)
from
Cornell
University,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1975)
in
Soil
Science
from
the
University
of
Wisconsin­
Madison.
He
currently
serves
on
the
USDA
Task
Force
on
Agricultural
Air
Quality.
He
currently
receives
research
funding
from
the
North
Carolina
State
University
Animal
and
Poultry
Waste
Management
Center
as
part
of
"
An
Integrated
Study
of
the
Emissions
of
Ammonia,
Odor
and
Odorants,
Pathogens
and
Related
Contaminants
from
Potential
Environmentally
Superior
Technologies
for
Swine
Facilities,"
and
the
National
Pork
Producers
Council
for
"
Monitoring
Atmospheric
Concentrations
of
Ammonia/
Ammonium
in
Eastern
North
Carolina
Using
Annular
Denuder
and
Passive
Filter
Technology."

Daniel
A.
Wubah,
Ph.
D.
is
associate
dean
College
of
Science
and
Mathematics
at
James
Madison
University.
Prior
to
this,
Wubah
was
chairperson
of
the
Department
of
Biology
at
Towson
University.
His
special
expertise
includes
rumen
microbiology
and
anaerobic
zoosporic
fungi.
He
received
his
B.
S.
and
B.
Ed.
(
1984)
from
the
University
of
Cape
Coast
(
Ghana)
M.
S.
(
1987)
from
the
University
of
Akron,
and
Ph.
D.
from
the
University
of
Georgia.
Wubah
previously
served
on
the
NRC
Panel
for
Review
of
Proposals
Under
the
AID
Research
Grants
Program
for
the
Historically
Black
Colleges
and
Universities
­
Agriculture,
Health,
and
Social
Sciences.
He
is
a
member
of
the
Board
of
Governors
of
the
National
Aquarium
in
Baltimore.

Kelly
D.
Zering,
Ph.
D.
is
associate
professor
Department
of
Agricultural
and
Resource
Economics
at
North
Carolina
State
University.
His
special
expertise
is
economics
of
swine
production
and
processing.
He
received
his
B.
S.
(
1977)
and
M.
S.
(
1980)
from
the
University
of
Manitoba,
and
Ph.
D.
(
1984)
in
agricultural
economics
from
the
University
of
California,
Davis.
Zering
has
extension
responsibilities
in
the
areas
of
swine
management
and
marketing.
He
has
completed
research
funded
by
EPA
and
the
Animal
and
Poultry
Waste
Management
Center
for
"
Economic
Analysis
of
Alternative
Manure
Management
Systems."
He
currently
is
conducting
research
on
manure
technology
evaluation
funded
by
the
North
Carolina
Attorney
General
 
Smithfield
Agreement
via
the
Animal
and
Poultry
Waste
Management
Center.
Ruihong
Zhang,
Ph.
D.
is
associate
professor
in
Department
of
Biological
and
Agricultural
Engineering
at
the
University
of
California,
Davis.
Her
main
interests
include
control
of
gaseous
and
particulate
emissions
from
animal
feedlots,
and
wastewater
treatment.
She
is
a
member
of
the
USDA
multi­
state
research
project
NCR­
189,
"
Air
Quality
Issues
Associated
with
Livestock
Facilities"
and
a
member
of
the
American
Society
of
Agricultural
Engineers
Committee
on
Environmental
Air
Quality.
Zhang
received
her
B.
S.
(
1983)
from
InnerMongolia
Engineering
University
(
China),
M.
S.
(
1986)
from
the
Northeast
Agricultural
University
(
China),
and
Ph.
D.
(
1992)
from
the
University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana­
Champaign.
She
has
a
U.
S.
patent
approved
(
filed
by
University
of
California,
Davis)
for
a
"
Biogasification
of
Solid
Wastes
by
Anaerobic
Phased
Solids
Digester
System."