WESTAR Staff Reports

2014 Spring Business MeetingBoise, Idaho

Jeff Gabler

FY2013 Activities:

•28 Courses Offered•51 Training Days•814 Students Trained•1516 Student Training Days

FY2014 Activities:

•~26 Courses Offered•~51 Training Days•~650 Students Trained•~1250 Student Training Days

Summary of FY2014 Activities:

•APTI-Learn Committee: • Bi-Weekly Hour Long Conference Calls• Goal is to Improvement Overall Experience by:

• Increasing Functionality• Improve Appearance

• By Identifying:• Updates/Enhancements/Maintenance• Workable & Resource-wise Solutions

• Redesigned• Home Page• Curriculum Page• Numerous Small Changes

Summary of FY2014 Activities•National Training Strategy Workgroup:

• Review/Prioritize Long-Term Issues• Identify Potential Opportunities & Solutions• Identify Cooperative Working Opportunities

•NACAA’s Joint Training Committee

http://review.em-assist.com/courses/epa/lms_home/plan/review/03/index.html

Bob Lebens

•Planning

•Technical

•Ad hoc Work Groups•Regional Haze 2018 Work Group•Residential Wood Heating NSPS•Modeling Platform

• Ongoing Committee Support•Agenda development•Recruit new members/leaders

•Ad Hoc Work Group Support•Modeling Platform•SO2 Data Requirements Rule

•IMPROVE budget

Tom Moore

• Planning and Technical Committees’ support• Regional Haze “Plan to Plan” • Comments to EPA on 2011/2018 modeling platforms

• Ad hoc activities• Future CAA §111d existing power plant regulations – panel participant on Regional Haze planning experience and O&G methane leakage at Western Interstate Energy Board meetings

• Administrative• Prepared SoW and budgets for new Funding Opportunities with:

•BLM MT-Dakotas, for completion of O&G emissions inventories•BLM national air program for first phase of Drill Rig 1-Hour NO2 Study•NPS for 3-State Study work (Oct. 14 through Sept. 17)•NASA, for competitive proposal to test/implement satellite data in Western Modeling Framework for regional analysis/planning

• Re-started Fire Sciences Program project & 3-State Study project

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• Board and administrative activities • Board call and planning for May 29th meeting • WESTAR Council calls• Outreach with Tribes, Local Air Agencies, and Federal WRAP member agencies • Completed WGA reporting to close projects

• WRAP Technical Steering Committee• 2014-18 Integrated Workplan development

• Coordination, development , implementation

• w/ OAQPS on Fire/Ozone Exceptional Events technical tools

• w/ CAMD on Electrical Generating Units – Integrated Planning Model

• Invited speaker at Central/Midwestern States’ Technical Workshop

• w/ USFS on integration of FETS & USFS fire activity/emissions systems

• w/ NPS and other 3-State Air Quality Study cooperators on developing future Western Modeling Framework & Data Warehouse for regional air quality analysis and planning

• Invited participant in NASA Air Quality proposal review panel

• w/ NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) – Jan. meeting

• Invited speaker at EPA R10 Smoke Management annual meeting

• w/ participants in July-August 2014 FRAPPE and DiscoverAQ studies