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EPA'S INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR TRACKING REASONABLE FURTHER PROGRESS
Citation:
Barnard, W., C. Moore, T. Dean, AND E.S. Kimbrough. EPA'S INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR TRACKING REASONABLE FURTHER PROGRESS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/A-93/149.
Description:
The paper describes operating characteristics of a personal-computer (PC)-based Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) tracking system developed for use by EPA to evaluate the progress that nonattainment areas are making toward meeting a 15% volatile organic compound (VOC) reduction specified in the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990. etails of the program's capabilities, file handling, reporting, and graphics are reported. (NOTE: The CAAA called for RFP inventories to be submitted to EPA for the purpose of demonstrating strategies by which a 15% reduction in VOC emissions will be achieved over the years 1990 to 1996. his requirement applies to moderate, serious, severe, and extreme ozone nonattainment areas. n addition, serious, severe, and extreme areas must demonstrate at least a 3% annual average reduction beginning in 1996 and continuing thereafter until attainment is reached.) In order to track the emission reductions resulting from these strategies, emissions reported in the RFP projection inventories will be compared with actual emissions reported in periodic adjusted-base inventories, that are also required by the CAAA. owever, this comparison will take place a number of years in the future.