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WESTAR Technical Committee
2023-10-25 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-09-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
The WESTAR Technical Committee includes technical professionals from the 15 member states. Participants come from a variety of backgrounds including monitoring, emissions inventory, and modeling analysis. Technical professionals from Tribal and local air agencies as well as EPA and Federal Land Management agencies are welcome to attend. These calls occur every month on the First Thursday at 2:00 Mountain Time. The purpose of the call is to identify policy issues of concern, make recommendations and comment on EPA policies and proposals, and exchange information and expertise on relevant topics.
If you are interested in attending these calls, please contact Jay Baker at jbaker@westar.org.

TSC/WG Co-Chairs Monthly Coordination Call
2023-10-25 12:30 - 14:00, 2023-08-30 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Denver)
Monthly Coordination Call with WRAP Technical Steering Committee and WRAP Work Group Co-Chairs
Agenda
Work Group Updates

Advanced Inspector Training (NACT355)
2023-10-23 08:30 - 2023-10-25 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maricopa County Air Quality Dept, 301 W. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85003, United States
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Advanced Inspector Training Course focuses on issues and techniques for the more senior inspector to help enhance and improve their inspection techniques and results. This course does not focus on any specific media but covers subject applicable to inspections in all media. The course is intended to provide additional tools to obtain information before, during, and after an inspection. The course will present “best practices” for conducting inspections and give the students an opportunity to discuss how these “best practices” apply or not to their own inspections. Each class will have the opportunity to discuss and evaluate specific issues or areas of interest to them.
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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HAQAST Utah
2023-10-19 - 2023-10-20 | Salt Lake City, UT

NACAA Fall Membership Meeting
2023-10-18 - 2023-10-19 | Alexandria, VA

IMPROVE Steering Committee Meeting
2023-10-17 - 2023-10-18 | Glacier National Park, MT

CMAS Conference
2023-10-16 - 2023-10-18

Landfill Gas Control Facilities (TOXC229)
2023-10-06 08:30 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Bachechi Open Space Educational Buidling, 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87114, United States
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Those completing this course will gain a basic understanding of the Landfill Gas control systems. The following topics will be covered in this course:
• Facts and figures regarding Landfills
• Primary and Secondary air pollutants at Landfills
• Methane monitoring equipment
• Inspections and safety tips
• Scientific principles behind landfill gas generation
• Landfill gas collection technologies and principles
• Landfill gas controls and energy uses
• Description of landfill gas monitoring equipment and proper use
• Regulatory Overview and Update on Green House Gas Regulations, CCR Title 17, Section 95460
• Inspection and Safety Tips
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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WESTAR Planning Committee
2023-10-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
The WESTAR Planning Committee includes air quality planners from the 15 member states. Planners from Tribal and local air agencies as well as EPA and Federal Land Management agencies are welcome to attend. These calls occur every month on the First Thursday at 2:00 Mountain Time. The purpose of the call is to identify policy issues of concern, make recommendations and comment on EPA policies and proposals, and exchange information and expertise on relevant topics.
If you are interested in attending these calls, please contact Jay Baker at jbaker@westar.org.

VOC Control Devices (TOXC106)
2023-10-05 08:30 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Bachechi Open Space Educational Buidling, 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87114, United States
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Those completing this course will gain a basic understanding of the general information associated with volatile organic compound control devices. Attendees will be able to perform regulatory reviews involving the following elements of gaseous emissions control: The following topics will be covered in this course:
• Absorbers
• Adsorbers
• Condensers
• Oxidizers
• Process descriptions
• Rule discussion
• Inspection procedures
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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Aggregate, Hot Mix Asphalt, & Concrete Batch Facilities (TOXC219)
2023-10-03 08:30 - 2023-10-04 17:00 (America/Denver) | Bachechi Open Space Educational Buidling, 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM, 87114, United States
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Those completing this course will gain a basic understanding of the general information associated with aggregate, asphalt, & concrete batching operations plants. Attendees will be able to perform regulatory reviews involving the following elements of Aggregate, Asphalt, and Concrete Batching operations:
The following topics will be covered in this course:
• Emissions and Health Impacts
• Aggregate Industry
• Aggregate Process
• Engineering Evaluation
• Inspection Procedures for Aggregate, Asphalt and Concrete operation
• Concrete Emissions and Effects
• Hot Mix Process and Control
• Permit Requirements
• Health Impacts
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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WESTAR/WRAP Fall Business Meeting
2023-10-03 - 2023-10-04 | Anchorage, AK

Monitoring Compliance Testing & Source Test Observation
2023-09-26 08:30 - 2023-09-28 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cal Center Boardroom, 8800 Cal Center Drive, Sacrament, CA, 95826, United States
WESTAR’s Training Center will host this training course for state, local and tribal air quality professional staff working, or planning to work, in source testing.
This lecture-based course is designed for state, local and tribal air quality professional whose role is to observe source testing, evaluate source test methods, approve test protocols and review source test results as required under various federal and state regulations or as required by issued permits. This class is intended for compliance and field engineers, scientists and technicians who have responsibility for the above source testing tasks.
Those completing this course will gain a basic understanding of the general information associated with source testing and source test methods. This course develops the ability to plan, guide, evaluate, and (after experience on the job) perform source sampling measurements to determine rates of emissions from stationary sources. It clarifies EPA Reference Methods 1 to 4, and Method 5. The course develops knowledge of the equipment employed, understanding of why the prescribed methods are established, and ability to perform the calibrations and calculations which are a part of the reference methods.
To ensure that the source test methods utilized to demonstrate compliance are performed according to EPA guidelines, both agency and industrial personnel will be required to observe stack tests to document that compliance with the methodology is being achieved. This will mean that an observer must be intimately familiar with numerous stack test methods, each one with its own particular operation.

International Inventory Conference
2023-09-26 - 2023-09-29

AAPCA Fall Business Meeting
2023-09-26 - 2023-09-28 | Raleigh Marriott City Center

ONLINE - Effective Permit Writing
2023-09-19 10:00 - 2023-09-21 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This online course presents information on the major national programs in air pollution stationary source permitting. This course was designed to provide methods and procedures used to effectively draft and review permit conditions used with a variety of permit programs. This course is designed for personnel of state and local permitting agencies who are new to permit programs, managers of programs which are impacted by permits, and inspectors who must read and interpret permit conditions. Examples of the various types of permit conditions are presented along with practical exercises.
MAJOR TOPICS:

Identification of the components required in a complete permit application evaluation,
Explanation of the functions and purposes of each component of a complete permit application,
Description of the characteristics of an effective permit,
Explanation of the process, approaches that can be used to assure an effective permit is produced.

WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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Advanced Inspector Training (NACT355)
2023-09-12 08:30 - 2023-09-14 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | State of Wyoming, 5221 Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, WY, 82002, United States

WESTAR Planning Committee
2023-09-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
The WESTAR Planning Committee includes air quality planners from the 15 member states. Planners from Tribal and local air agencies as well as EPA and Federal Land Management agencies are welcome to attend. These calls occur every month on the First Thursday at 2:00 Mountain Time. The purpose of the call is to identify policy issues of concern, make recommendations and comment on EPA policies and proposals, and exchange information and expertise on relevant topics.
If you are interested in attending these calls, please contact Jay Baker at jbaker@westar.org.
WESTAR Planning Committee September 2023 Agenda

WRAP Board Meeting
2023-09-06 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-08-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver)
Agenda

ECOS Fall Meeting
2023-08-28 - 2023-08-30 | Boulder, CO

Rocky Mountain Wildfire Smoke Symposium
2023-08-24 - 2023-08-25 | Denver, CO
Agenda and hotel info: https://www.toxicology.org/groups/rc/mtwsot/index.asp

Theory & Application of Common Air Pollution Control Devices (BASC107)
2023-08-24 - 2023-08-25 | Northern Nevada Public Health, 1001 E. Ninth Street, Reno, NV, 89512, United States
Course Description: This course will provide a detailed introduction to air pollution control equipment and methods used to control particulate and gaseous air emissions. The course will cover theory, operation, applications, design considerations, inspection strategies, compliance assurance monitoring and regulations for cyclones, baghouses, wet and dry scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, carbon beds, bio filters, condensers, flares, thermal and catalytic oxidizers. NOx controls like selective catalytic reduction (SCR), selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR), flue gas recirculation (FGR), and ultra-low NOx burners will also be discussed.
Target Audience: This course is intended for entry-level staff.
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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WESTAR Joint Planning and Technical Committee
2023-08-23 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
The WESTAR Planning and Technical Committees will hold a joint call to hear about research and resources from the NASA HEALTH AND AIR QUALITY APPLIED SCIENCES TEAM (HAQAST).
If you are interested in attending these calls, please contact Jay Baker at jbaker@westar.org.

Incinerators (TOXC222)
2023-08-23 | Northern Nevada Public Health, 1001 E. Ninth Street, Reno, NV, 89512, United States
Incinerators (TOXC220):
Course Description: This course will focus on the process, emission control equipment and inspection procedures of small to medium sized solid waste incinerators. The types of incinerators include biomedical, pathological, crematories and commercial heat stripping ovens. This course does not address municipal waste combustors, biomass or hazardous waste incinerators. There is an afternoon field visit where students will receive first-hand experience during a mock inspection of a local business
The following topics will be covered in this course:

3 T’s of combustion
Types of combustion
Categories of Industrial Incinerators
Typical Incinerator Operating Procedures
Typical Operational Errors
Incinerator Emissions & Control
Incinerator Inspection
Air Pollution Control Points of Inspection

Target Audience: This course is intended for entry-level staff.
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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Compliance Assurance Monitoring (PERM204)
2023-08-22 | Northern Nevada Public Health, 1001 E. Ninth Street, Reno, NV, 89512, United States
Course Description: Those completing this course will gain a basic understanding of the general information associated with compliance assurance monitoring. CAM concepts like background, 40 CFR part 64 (CAM) applicability, who will be affected by CAM, who is exempt from CAM, CAM timing, monitoring design criteria, frequency of monitoring, source, District & EPA roles in evaluating CAM plans, quality improvement plans will be discussed in this course.
Attendees will be able to perform regulatory reviews involving the following elements of CAM:

Effect of Title V
Background of CAM
Part 64 applicability
Exception
CAM monitoring design criteria
Source, district, and EPA Roles
Quality Improvement plan

Target Audience: This course is intended for entry-level staff.
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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Air Quality Dispersion Modeling
2023-08-15 08:30 - 2023-08-16 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maricopa County Air Quality Dept, 301 W. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85003, United States
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This 2-day training course is not intended to produce modelers but rather to focus on atmospheric science principles, model options, and configurations, as well as pre- and post-processing steps that ultimately determine the outcome of the modeling study. The course will develop a solid understanding of regulatory air dispersion modeling fundamentals combined with the application of this knowledge toward solving real-world air quality challenges. Practical and real-world AERMOD examples will be utilized throughout the course to effectively demonstrate how these topics work together to influence model outcomes. In addition, hands-on training is incorporated throughout the training to reinforce concepts.
The intent of the course is to empower permit engineers and managers with the knowledge and real-world experience needed to quickly assess the validity of model selection, configuration, and results interpretation as related to specific regulatory programs. Emphasis is on explaining and demonstrating important modeling concepts that permit writers and managers must understand to make informed and defensible decisions during the permitting process to ensure the permit conditions meet regulatory requirements.
WESTAR’s funding and mission limit attendance at WESTAR’s educational opportunities to staff from government air pollution control agencies.
Course Brochure
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EPA Air Sensors QA Workshop
2023-07-25 - 2023-07-27 | Research Triangle Park, NC
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sonicwall.url-protection.com/v1/url?o%3Dhttps%253A//www.epa.gov/amtic/2023-air-sensors-quality-assurance-workshop%26g%3DYWE5ODc4ZDg4Mjc2OGYxYQ%3D%3D%26h%3DNjczMTYxMGMxNjNkY2RjMmJkMmJiZGY5NmU5OTAzNTI4NGQ4Mzc1OTY3MTEyZmEyNjlmMDk2ZDI5ZWFkOGQyOQ%3D%3D%26p%3Dc3A1Om1hcmFtYTpzb25pY3dhbGw6b2ZmaWNlMzY1X2VtYWlsc19lbWFpbDo3MjQyMTMwNmIyZmRmMjA2YmUxYjNmNGM3ODE1YTI4NTp2MQ%3D%3D&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw0824uEjcmqkZWke0JNLSJI
