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Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team Overview

Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team Overview. Technology Development Teams Meeting September 26, 2005. Team Objective. Serve as the NRCS technology development team responsible for all air quality, atmospheric change and related information and tools needed by the agency.

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Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team Overview

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  1. Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team Overview Technology Development Teams Meeting September 26, 2005

  2. Team Objective • Serve as the NRCS technology development team responsible for all air quality, atmospheric change and related information and tools needed by the agency

  3. Air Quality & AtmosphericChange Issues • Air resources often have not been focal points in agency activities • Air resource issues often are intimately tied to soil and water issues; sometimes in parallel, sometimes in conflict; airsheds are not necessarily watersheds • However, agriculture increasingly is being examined as both a source and a sink in this issue • There are 2 driving forces behind this: the regulatory “hammer” (EPA, states, local), as well as our commitment to total conservation

  4. PM10 PM2.5 Excessive Ozone Odor Excessive GHG—CO2 Excessive GHG—N2O Excessive GHG—CH4 Ammonia Chemical Drift Reduced Visibility Undesirable air movement Adverse air temperature 12 of 79 NRCS ResourceConcerns are in Air Quality

  5. 6 Broad Air Resource Focus Areas • Reducing particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5) • Reducing odors • Reducing airborne chemical drift • Reducing ammonia emissions • Reducing Ozone precursors (VOC’s, NOx) • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O) and increasing carbon sequestration

  6. AQAC Team Focus Areas • Technology Development and Integration • Support to NRCS Programs & Planning • CSP • EQIP • Practice Standards, CPPE, CSG’s, CMP’s • Education and Outreach • AQAC Web Site • Committee, Workgroup & Professional Activities

  7. Key Accomplishments in 2005 • Support for AQAC in CSP: Preparation of more than 35 job sheets and worksheets; training at all regional meetings; work with states • Roll out of COMET-VR tool for carbon sequestration potential; development of information for 1605b voluntary reporting • Review of new NEH AQ chapters • Carbon model review • Responsibilities with Ag. Air Quality Task Force • NRCS AQAC web page development • Committee and other responsibilities • Team formation and development

  8. AQAC Team Goals • Development of all tools and materials needed for GHG voluntary reporting (expansion of COMET-VR, training, etc.) • Further support for NRCS Programs (On-farm demos, etc.) • Odor emissions tool • Particulate matter tool • Emission factors for all CMP’s (CA example) • Web expansion; educational materials • Team fully staffed • State AQAC Contacts (37 so far)

  9. AQAC Issues • AFO/CAFO AQ issues • Odors, Ammonia, VOCs, digesters • Ozone precursors (NOx, VOCs) • SJV, VOC emission factors • Chemical drift • Windbreaks and Filters • Ohio, MN, MO, IA work • PM, drift, odors • EPA interaction • Consent Agreement, Diesel reduction, PM coarse fraction

  10. AQAC Team Staffing • Greg Johnson: Leader, AQAC Meteorology & Climatology • John Brenner: GHGs and Carbon Sequestration • Roel Vining: Particulate Matter, Windbreaks • Greg Zwicke: Animal AQ issues • Physical Scientist: Ozone Precursors, Chemical Drift, Smoke Mgmt.

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