Great Lakes Regional Toxic Air Emissions Inventory: Project background and overview
- Great Lakes Commission, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources, Madison, WI (United States). Bureau of Air Management
- Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield, IL (United States). Div. of Air Pollution
The eight Great Lakes states and Ontario, Canada, working together through the Great Lakes Commission, have developed a pilot regional emission inventory of 49 airborne toxic pollutants from point and area sources for calendar year 1993. Driven by the state/provincial Toxic Substances Control Agreement and the US federal Clean Air Act, project development was funded by the US EPA and the states themselves through the Great Lakes Protection Fund. The inventory will be repeated annually, beginning with base year 1995. At that time a mobile source component will be added to the inventory. Before emission estimations could be performed, the groundwork had to be laid to ensure consistency among the states and the province. This included identifying pollutants of concern, obtaining emission factors for these pollutants, developing a protocol and developing software, Regional Air Pollutant Inventory Development System (RAPIDS) to implement the protocol and facilitate transfer of the inventory data to the regional repository. This paper presents background on the project; introduces the inventory software system and protocol; and highlights lessons learned from the 1993 regional pilot. The paper also provides insights gained from nearly ten years of cooperative project development by the federal, state and provincial partners.
- OSTI ID:
- 351202
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970677--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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