EPA`s overview of the Acid Rain Program`s emissions tracking system (ETS) quarterly report process

Conference · Wed Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:617842

Wockenfuss, M E ^[1]

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1. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States)

The Acid Rain Program`s Emission Tracking System (ETS) was developed to collect, quality assure and publish the monitored and sampled emissions data collected and reported by the electric utility industry. Data are collected from fossil-fuel burning electrical generating stations that are affected by the Acid Rain Program. Since its operational start in 1993 the ETS and the data collection that surrounds it, the quarterly report process, has evolved to handle the Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) increased expectations of quarterly report data quality. The quarterly report process that supports the ETS provides utilities with multiple data submission options. It also provides software tools so that utilities can perform their own data assessment. This paper highlights the quarterly report process and the systems that are at the center of that process. It also analyzes utility performance relating to their 1995 and 1996 quarterly data reports and previews how the EPA`s quarterly report process will evolve over the next year.

• OSTI ID: 617842
• Report Number(s): CONF-970145--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
ACID RAIN
AIR POLLUTION MONITORING
CLEAN AIR ACTS
E CODES
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS