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Air Resource Specialists is experienced with a wide variety of ambient air quality and visibility monitoring, modeling, and permitting projects. Example projects include:

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Ambient Air Quality and Meteorology Monitoring, Data Analysis, and Auditing National Park Service Air Quality Division Operational support of the NPS Gaseous Pollutant Monitoring Program. Support includes: • Maintenance, calibration, and training visits twice a year to over 50 sites that include continuous gas, dry deposition (CASTNet), meteorology, and other parameters • Laboratory recertification, calibration, servicing, and repair of gaseous monitors, meteorological sensors, dataloggers, and other support equipment • Data collection, reduction, validation, and reporting • Production of SOPs, TIs, and training videos • Software development and maintenance for data management, special study databases, DataView, Internet data access, and other data systems • Operator telephone support • Equipment fabrication • Site installations   Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Air Quality Program Installation, operational support, and data analyses of a three (3) station pariculate and meteorological monitoring network near Pocatello, Idaho. Instrumentation includes FRM PM2.5 samplers, PM10 and PM2.5 TEOMs, High Volume PM10 samplers, and meteorological measurements. Responsibilities include: preparation of QAPP and SOPs, managing audit and filter handling subcontracts, quarterly maintenance and calibration of instruments, telephone support, data collection, quarterly validation and reporting, and data submittal to AIRS.   Sierra Pacific Power Company Quality assurance audit services for a meteorological and ambient air quality monitoring network that includes four monitoring sites at two power plants in northern Nevada. Each facility has a 100-meter meteorological monitoring tower with measurements taken at 4 levels: 2, 10, 55, and 100 meters. Gaseous parameters audited, include: NOx, SO2, CO, O3, and PM10 particulates.   Rocky Mountain Steel Mills PSD Air Monitoring Program Conduct a gaseous, particulate, and meteorological monitoring program at two monitoring stations at the facility. The project includes station fabrication and installation, data collection, reporting, analysis, validation, and station maintenance, calibration, audits, and operator support. Collected parameters include: TSP and PM10, NO, NO2, NOx, CO, SO2, and meteorology.

Visibility Monitoring, Modeling, and Data Analysis IMPROVE/NPS Visibility Monitoring Program Complete technical and operational support of the IMPROVE, NPS, and FWS visibility monitoring networks at more than 50 sites. Calibration, maintenance, data collection, reduction, validation, reporting, and quality assurance documentation. Research and development of visibility monitoring instrumentation and analysis techniques, including transmissometers, nephelometers, camera systems, and meteorological instrumentation. Development and application of radiative transfer models and computer image simulations. Support of field research programs, including ACE2, Grand Canyon special studies, and BRAVO.   USDA Forest Service Air Monitoring and Modeling Complete technical and operational monitoring and data analyses in support of the USDA-FS visibility monitoring network of more than 30 monitoring sites in Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9. Services include instrument fabrication, calibration, maintenance, data collection, reduction, validation, reporting, digital image analysis, modeling, and quality assurance documentation. All current and historical image data are uploaded and presented on a publicly available Web site.   Wyoming Visibility Monitoring Network Monitoring of visibility air quality, and meteorology at state-wide sites. Services include site selection, station fabrication, installation, operation, data collection, validation, analyses, and reporting. (QAPP, SOP, and TI quality assurance documentation).   Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Operational support of transmissometer, nephelometer, and Web camera sites in Phoenix and Tucson. Services include instrument calibration, maintenance, data collection, reduction, validation, and reporting. All collected data are uploaded and presented on a publicly available Web site. ARS has developed and maintains a comprehensive air quality data collection system for the program. Visibility Improvement - State and Tribal Association of the Southeast (VISTAS) Analysis of the spatial and temporal characteristics of particulate mass concentration and visibility data within and bordering the 10-state VISTAS region. Compilation of relevant national, regional, and state databases, and analysis of data gaps. Review of multiple methods to estimate extinction from PM measurements. Investigation of meteorological back trajectories for periods of high and low extinction and specific mass species.

Air Quality Modeling, Permitting, and Compliance Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation Diversity Energy Specialists Ongoing environmental permitting and compliance services for ethanol facilities in Nebraska, New Mexico, and Kansas. Services include facility compliance activities with applicable regulations and site-specific permits for air, water, stormwater, toxic release inventories, etc. Conducted facility audits to determine applicable environmental regulations, prepared Title V permits, NSR and PSD applicability, and air dispersion modeling for facility expansions.   National Park Service - Yellowstone EIS Completed analyses of potential air quality impacts from snowmobile and snowcoach operations in support of the Winter Use Plans Final Environmental Impact Statement for Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. Assessed potential air quality impacts for several preliminary alternatives. Impacts for each preliminary alternative were assessed relative to current and historical conditions, with respect to the NAAQS, PSD increments for particulate matter, and potential visibility impacts. Emission estimates were calculated for criteria pollutants, hydrocarbons, and hazardous air pollutants. Fagen, Inc. Assistance with project planning activities and permitting of several ethanol facilities in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Compliance assistance with respect to air and water permitting regulations, including NSR, PSD applicability requirements. Performed air dispersion modeling and conducted environmental site assessments for some of the project sites to determine any environmental constraints prior to operation.   Tom Brown, Inc. Environmental consulting services regarding oil and gas production plants. Services included assistance in obtaining a Title V operating permit, PSD permitting issues, and negotiations with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. Services also include ongoing facility compliance activities as required including air quality permits, emissions inventories, self-reporting., etc.   Colorado State University Facilities Management Assist with negotiating appropriate Title V permit conditions for boiler plant and pathological waste incinerator operations on campus. Reviewed upcoming medical and infectious waste regulations and advised CSU on potential compliance options. Preparation of Title V operating permits to cover university air emissions. Ongoing compliance assistance with respect to air permits. Also provide additional water and stormwater compliance assistance with respect to main campus activities as well as off-campus university holdings (research laboratories, etc.).