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Title: Considerations for modeling small-particulate impacts from surface coal-mining operations based on wind-tunnel simulations

Conference ·
OSTI ID:28723
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Air Resources Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
  2. Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 provide for a reexamination of the current Environmental Protection Agency`s (USEPA) methods for modeling fugitive particulate (PM10) from open-pit, surface coal mines. The Industrial Source Complex Model (ISCST2) is specifically named as the method that needs further study. Title II, Part B, Section 234 of the Amendments states that {open_quotes}...the Administrator shall analyze the accuracy of such model and emission factors and make revisions as may be necessary to eliminate any significant over-predictions of air quality effect of fugitive particulate emissions from such sources.{close_quotes}

OSTI ID:
28723
Report Number(s):
CONF-940115-; TRN: 95:002816-0013
Resource Relation:
Conference: 8. Joint conference on applications of air pollution meterology. 74. American Meteorological Society annual meeting, Nashville, TN (United States), 23-28 Jan 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Eighth joint conference on applications of air pollution meteorology with A & WMA; PB: 359 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English