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RECORD NUMBER: 182 OF 1885

Main Title Calculations from compliance emissions of long- and short- term SO2 concentrations in the Southwest Pennsylvania air quality control region.
CORP Author Cramer (H.E.) Co., Inc., Salt Lake City, UT.;Environmental Protection Agency, Philadelphia, PA. Region III.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Year Published 1981
Report Number EPA-903/9-81-001; 68-02-2547; TR-81-136-01; EPA-68-02-2547
Stock Number PB81-226078
OCLC Number 37287447
Subjects Air--Pollution--Pennsylvania
Additional Subjects Air pollution ; Sulfur dioxide ; Mathematical models ; Concentration(Composition) ; Pennsylvania ; Transport properties ; Monitoring ; Inventories ; Air quality control region ; Numerical solution
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EJAD  EPA 903/9-81-001 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 07/18/1997
NTIS  PB81-226078 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Abstract
This report describes the results of dispersion-model calculations of maximum annual, 24-hour and 3-hour average ground-level SO2 concentrations for selected areas in the Southwest Pennsylvania Air Quality Control Region (AQCR). The primary purpose of the model calculations was to assist EPA Region III and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources in determining the attainment or non-attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for SO2 in the Beaver Valley and Monongahela Valley Air Basins exclusive of Allegheny County. All of the dispersion-model calculations were made using the LONGZ and SHORTZ dispersion models with 1980 compliance emissions inventories containing 492 major SO2 sources located within the Southwest Pennsylvania AQCR and in Ohio and West Virginia near the western border of the AQCR. The only calculated maximum that exceeds the NAAQS for SO2 is the maximum annual average concentration at an isolated grid point located on high terrain about 1 kilometer north of the Monessen Plant of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. The model calculations also indicate contributions of major SO2 sources located along the Ohio River in Ohio and West Virginia to the air quality in the Southwest Pennsylvania AQCR.
Notes
Prepared for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by H.E. Cramer Company, Inc. under contract no. 68-02-2547, task order no. 2. "May 1981." "EPA-903/9-81-001." Project officers: Brian McClean and Alan Cimorelli.