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DEVELOPMENT OF HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTORS FROM STATE SOURCE TEST PROGRAMS
Citation:
Jones, D., C. Blackley, J. Battiste, J. Gilbert, AND K. Mesich. DEVELOPMENT OF HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTORS FROM STATE SOURCE TEST PROGRAMS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-98/036 (NTIS PB98-142110), 1998.
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Description:
The report gives results of a study in which emission factors were evolved from test data obtained from several Air Quality Management Districts in California and from state environmental agencies in Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, and Texas. The emission factors were developed for 9 of 23 relatively important source categories which lacked good quality emission factors. Over 100 test reports were screened for completeness: 69 of them contained sufficient information for emission factor development. From the 69 complete reports, 983 individual hazardous air pollutant (HAP emission factors were developed and entered into EPA's Factor information Retrieval (FIRE) system emission factor database. The number, data quality, and range of emission factors developed--for each source classification code and source category tested--are also included in the report. (NOTE: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 require EPA to identify sources of HAP emissions, estimate the quantities of HAPs emitted from these sources, and evaluate the potential health risks associated with these emissions. A major method used to estimate these emissions is the use of source-test-based "emission factors," which, when multiplied by measurable activity data, yield an estimate of the quantity of a HAP emitted by the source.)