NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

An Air Quality Management Plan

For New York State

Robert D. Bielawa, P.E.

Division of Air Resources

Bureau of Air Quality Planning

2011 NAQC

San Diego, CA

March 9, 2011

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NYSDEC Multi-Pollutant Planning Goals

• The Department’s multi-pollutant planning effort, which is referred to as the Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP), addresses air quality concerns that include nonattainment and maintenance of criteria pollutant national ambient air quality standards, sector-based emission control strategies, emission and risk reductions of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs), climate change, regional haze and visibility. It will also address other considerations such as environmental justice, land-use, transportation, energy and ecosystem health to the extent practicable.

 • The multi-pollutant plan incorporates Department priorities and provides

details on the Department’s air quality planning goals and potential strategies by which these goals may be achieved, as well as the technical approaches that will be used.

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Pilot Project with EPA

• Began September 2007

• 4 Stages– Work-plan– Current Status Summary– Conceptual Model– Draft Final AQMP

• Completed December 2009

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Department Priorities

• Connect New Yorkers to Nature• Promote a Toxic-Free Future• Safeguard NY’s Unique Natural Assets• Work for Environmental Justice• Combat Climate Change (CP-49)• Foster Green and Healthy Communities

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AQMP Key Components

• Pollutants to be addressed• Air Quality in New York State• Environmental Goals• Energy Issues• Ecosystem Health• Human Health Impacts• Environmental Justice• Stakeholders

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AQMP Focus Pollutants

• 1,3-butadiene• Acetaldehyde• Acrolein• Ammonia• Benzene• Carbon Dioxide and other

GHG’s• Diesel Exhaust• Fine Particulate Matter

• Formaldehyde• Lead• Mercury• Nickel• Oxides of Nitrogen• Ozone• Particulate Matter• Polycyclic Organic Matter

(POM)• Sulfur Dioxide

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Air Quality In New York

• 2008 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment– Designations deferred

• 1997 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment– 8 areas designated nonattainment, but all with

clean data• 1-Hour Ozone Nonattainment

– 6 nonattainment areas, all with clean data• PM2.5 (Annual and 24-hr) Nonattainment

– 1 nonattainment area

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Environmental Goals (1)

• Combat Climate Change– 25% RPS by 2013– 45x15 by 2015– 10% VMT reduction by 2020– 52% CO2e emission reduction by 2030

– 80% CO2e emission reduction by 2050

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Environmental Goals (2)

• Foster Green and Healthy Communities– Attain all NAAQS by appropriate dates

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Environmental Goals (3)

• Promote a Toxic-Free Future– 50% reduction diesel PM by 2014– Reduce ambient nickel concentrations to coincide

with the 24-hr PM2.5 NAAQS of 35 ug/m3 by 2014

– Full implementation of Mercury Reduction Program to achieve region-wide TMDL projections by 2015

– Achieve 75% emission reduction in benzene emissions by 2016

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Environmental Goals (4)

• Safeguard NY’s Unique Natural Assets– Make progress toward achieving critical loads at

all areas that currently exceed critical loads for deposition of sulfur, nitrogen and mercury

• Connect New Yorkers to Nature– Promulgate a BART regulation that addresses

regional haze by 2013

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Energy Issues, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency• State Energy Plan

– Current goal of 30% by 2013• Wind• Hydroelectric • Solar• Biofuels

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Ecosystem Health

• Acid deposition– Adirondack Mountains– Catskill Mountains– Hudson Highlands– Rensselaer Plateau– Portions of Long Island

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Human Health Impacts

• Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT)• Asthma and Air Quality Project• Air Quality and Birth Outcomes• Public Health Surveillance Evaluation

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Environmental Justice (1)

• Existing State EJ Programs– Commissioner Policy 29

• Environmental Justice and Permitting

– EPHT– Green Building Initiative– EE Initiative– Stop Smoking Trucks NYSDEC Initiative

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Environmental Justice (2)

• Proposed State EJ Programs– Mobile Source Emission Reduction Programs– Stationary Source Emission Reduction Programs– Air Permitting Revisions

• 6 NYCRR Parts 201 and 212• Environmental Justice and Permitting

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Stakeholders

• All NYS Residents• All NYS Businesses• NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation• Other NYS Departments

– Transportation– Health– Energy Research Development Authority

• Local Governments (City and County)• Metropolitan Planning Organizations

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Technical Approach

• Applying the Northeast Regional Multi-Pollutant Policy Analysis Framework (MPAF) to New York– Began with NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use

Management) in late 2007– Funded by New York State Energy Research Development Authority

(NYSERDA)

• Modeling– NE-MARKAL (NorthEast MARKet ALlocation)– SMOKE/CMAQ– BenMAP– REMI (Regional Economic Models, Inc.)

• Project is in final stage

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MPAF Tasks (1)

1. Integrate key regional health, environmental, and economic targets for air quality and climate goals

2. Identify key regional strategies for achieving air and climate program goals

3. Represent goals and strategies in the regional MPAF modeling system

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MPAF Tasks (2)

4. Analyze solutions, trade-offs and cross sector interactions

5. Identify policy challenges and capacity building needs in order for states to use these tools in the future

6. Document findings, outreach to state and federal planning agencies

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Key Strategies – Air and Climate Program

Goals

• Power Generation Sector (6)• Transportation Sector (9)• R/C/I Sector (5)

• Meta-Scenarios (5) beyond NE-MARKAL

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Potential Environmental Indicators (1)

• Environmental– NAAQS– Resource efficiency (EE stds. on

appliances)– Progress toward GHG goals– Energy Consumption per capita– Number of Ozone Alert days

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Potential Environmental Indicators (2)

• Quality of Life– Commuting time– Park space per capita– Residences within walking distance of

public transit– Status of urban tree canopy

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Potential Environmental Indicators (3)

• Environmental Justice– Health Indicators

• Obesity• HBP

– Ambient air concentrations – Emissions Inventories for specific air toxics– Quality of Life indicators focused on EJ

areas

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Implementation

• The AQMP is a dynamic process• Current and Future programs• What next?

– Public Outreach– New York City Community Air Survey

• NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene

– Policy Decisions– Future Modeling

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Acknowledgements

• Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM)– Leah Weiss, Gary Kleiman, Jason Rudokas

• NYSDEC– Division of Air Resources

• Ona Papageorgiou, Scott Griffin, Kevin Watz– Office of Climate Change

• David Gardner• United States Environmental Protection Agency

– Valerie Broadway, OAQPS

• NYSERDA

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For more information

• http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/72213.html

• Robert D. Bielawa, P.E.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

625 Broadway

Albany, NY 12233-3251

(518) 402-8396

rdbielaw@gw.dec.state.ny.us