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- Hearing support and expert testimony
- Toxic tort or nuisance legal proceedings
- Regulatory permit support and planning (including contested hearings)
- Risk Management Plans (under CAAA Section 112(r))
- Health effects assessments and risk analyses
- Plant siting studies
- Ambient air monitor siting
- Evaluation of normal and emergency releases, including real-time systems
- Modeling for criteria and toxic pollutant impacts
- Correlation of monitoring data and modeling predictions (i.e., calibration of model)
- Emission source characterization or source culpability ("fingerprinting") analyses
- Preparation of clear and concise reports which meet federal and state modeling report guidelines
- All EPA-approved models, and pre- and post-processing programs
- Staff with modeling experience: 11
- Individual years of experience: 1 to 12
- 13 networked Pentium-powered PCs (runs can be queued and executed in
parallel on all specified computers for maximum efficiency and turnaround)
- Electronic integration of facility and physical structure data from AutoCAD
plots with computerized downwash analysis and inputs
- Analysis and processing of raw meteorological data or use of electronic
meteorological data sets
- Most often used models:
- EPA Industrial Source Complex and SCREEN
- INPUFF
- Toxics SCREEN (TSCREEN)
- In-house customization and optimization of models
- Tracking of modeling developments and changes in state/EPA guidance or policy
- Regular review and comment on state/EPA modeling guidelines
- Regular attendance of EPA's Conference on Air Quality Modeling
- Completion of tens of thousands of modeling runs conducted for hundreds of sites
- Solid reputation with state/EPA staffs
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