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Air Inspectors' Workshop

The 10th Annual Air Inspectors' workshop was held April 17-19, 2007, in Galveston, Texas.

Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday, April 17, 2007

8:00 - 8:30 Registration

8:30 - 9:00 Opening Remarks

Stacey Bennett-Dwyer - Chief, Surveillance Section, EPA Region 6

Dr. Harlan "Mark" Guidry - CEO Galveston Health Co. Health District

David Bower - Coastal Area Director, TCEQ

9:00 - 10:00 Systems Approach to Inspections and Enforcement (PDF (284 KB) ,

Kris Goschen - EPA Region 7

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 11:15 Inspection to Enforcement - From an Enforcement Perspective (PDF (24.8 MB),

Nidhi Omeara - EPA Region 5

11:15 - 12:00 Compliane Assurance Plans (PDF (3.4 MB) ,

Barrett Parker - EPA (OAQPS)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:15 Tank Roof Landings / Oil and Gas Emissions and Remote Sensing Project (PDF (17.3 MB),

Russ Nettles - TCEQ

2:15 - 2:30 Break

2:30 - 3:30 Legal Considerations of Your Job as an Air Quality Inspector (PDF (44.7 MB)

Sarah Penn - ODEQ

3:30 - 4:15 ACC and Deviation Reports, What did the CAA intend?

Guy Donaldson - EPA

4:15 - 5:00 SMART LDAR Update & the Alternative Work Practice

Joe Wilwerding - NEIC

5:00 - 7:00 9th floor North Tower, Presidential/Captain's Suite

Day 2: Wedesnday, April 18, 2007

8:30 - 9:30 Basic Track: Session A

History of Air Pollution and Intro to the CAA (PDF (64 KB),

Mark Leidig - TCEQ

Session B (Misc.) How to Review LDAR Databases (PDF (936 KB),

Joe Wilweirding - NEIC

Session C (General Interest) Ensuring Representative Conditions for Performance Testing (PDF (624 KB),

Rhonda Jeffries - ODEQ

9:30 - 9:45 Break

9:45 - 10:45 Session A (Basic) Investigation Preparation, Safety, Entry and Procedures for Oil and Gas Facilities

Susan Thompson - TCEQ (PDF (232 KB),

Alice Cone - TCEQ (PDF (34.8 MB),

Session B (Misc.) Ethylene MACT (PDF (5.3 MB),

Jennifer Gibbs - EPA

Steve Thompson - EPA

Session C (General Interest) An Overview of Environmental Pollution (PDF (4.4 MB),

Bryan Lambeth - TCEQ

Ambient Air Monitoring - Why? (PDF (55.5 MB),

Bryan Lambeth - TCEQ

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session A (Basic) The Investigation (Refineries and Chemical Plants) (PDF (91.9 MB),

Adam Kuehn - TCEQ

Chris Megas - TCEQ

Session B (Misc.) Oil and Natural Gas Compliance Assistance (PDF (17.4 MB),

Tony Robledo - EPA

Remediation MACT (PDF (72 KB),

Kathleen Aisling - EPA

Session C (General Interst) Recent Updates to Methods 3A, 6C, 7E, 10 and 20 (PDF (1 MB),

Foston Curtis - EPA

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch

1:15 - 2:00 Open Forum and Brain Storming - TBA - EPA

2:00 - 3:00 FLIR Case Study

Mark Leidig - TCEQ

Tim Doty - TCEQ

3:00 - Networking

Day 3 - Thursday, April 19, 2007

8:30 - 9:30 Session A (Basic) Determining Root Causes for Emission Events/Malfunctions and What to Look for (PDF (12.2 MB),

Chris Megas - TCEQ

Adam Kuehn - TCEQ

Session B Air Emission Sources from Oil and Gas Operations (PDF (32.7 MB),

Brian Boyer - COMM Engineering

9:30 - 9:45 Break

9:45 - 10:45 Session A (Basic) Report Writing and Documentation

Kris Goschen - EPA (PDF (312 KB),

Documentation Guidelines for Compliance Related Field Activities

Elizabeth Milligan - LDEQ (PDF (1.6 MB),

Session B Overview of the Area Source Program (PDF (128 KB),

Bonnie Braganaza - EPA

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00

Session A Civil Proceedings and General Questions

Diane Stevens - Galveston Co. Health District

Roger Haseman - Harris Co. District Attorney's Office

Session B Overview of Aggregate Based Processes (Rock Crushing, Concrete Batch Plants and Asphalt Plants)

Jason Cooper - TCEQ

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch

1:15 - 2:30 What's That Thang?!

Berry Mantooth - ODEQ

Tire Plants

Arlene Brooks - LDEQ

Flares (PDF (12.9 MB),

David Cornell - ADEQ (PDF (7.5 MB),

2:30 - 3:30 Case Studies

Matt Paque - ODEQ Cement Plants (PDF (748 KB),

Debbie Ford - LDEQ From Ambient Air Monitoring to Enforcement (PDF (1.8 MB),

Jay Green - EPA Tyler Pipe Co. - The Case of the Lost Grandfather (PDF (29.8 MB),

There is a macromedia flash movie on the 2nd slide and here it is in the native flash format. Since the file is secured by the author, it may not play in some presentation programs, but will work in Macromedia's Flash Player.

Macromedia Flash (.swf) (168 KB)

3:30 Evaluations and Certificates

Abbreviations used above:

ADEQ - Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality
LDEQ - Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
TCEQ - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
NEIC - National Enforcement Investigations Center
PDF - Portable Display Format (Adobe Acrobat file format)
PPT - Microsoft PowerPoint file format (warning, these files are sometimes very large)

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