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Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Handbook provides a straightforward, easy-to-read, nonlegal explanation of the regulatory and technical concepts of air quality compliance, explaining how to effectively manage air compliance at a facility. Although the majority of the book is devoted to a wide general applicability, it also describes the actual permit submissions that are required under regulations (many of which end up being state requirements) and the technical and analytical approaches which are needed in preparing the information required in the permit applications. Useful topics include: Fundamental 1990 and previous Clean Air Act concepts, Permitting, Compliance Checklists and risk assessment methodologies.
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Chapter 1: The Paper Maze Chapter 2: The Tools of Regulation Chapter 3: Regulatory Foundations and Structures Chapter 4: Air Pollutants Chapter 5: Sources Chapter 6: Permits Chapter 7: Emissions Determinations Chapter 8: Rules Chapter 9: The Permit Application Chapter 10: Compliance Paperwork Chapter 11: Enforcement Chapter 12: Staying Current Chapter 13: Your Neighbors Chapter 14: Special Topics Chapter 15: Looking Ahead and Looking Behind Appendix A: Regulatory Agency Contact Information: Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Agencies Appendix B: Nonattainment A...:Tables and Maps for All Criteria Pollutants Appendix C: Selected Chapters from AP-42 Appendix D: USEPA Air Test Methods as Found in Title 40: Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 60 and 63 Appendix E: VOC Exempt Compounds as Defined by USEPA Appendix F: Equipment Leak Emission Factors for VOCs: SOCMI and Oil Refining Factors Appendix G: MACT Standards: Promulgated, Proposed, and Upcoming Appendix H: Listing of Hazardous Air Pollutants: Including Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Numbers Appendix I: Selected Control Device Fact Sheets
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Richard Trzupek is a partner and Air Quality Manager at Huff & Huff, Inc. Mr. Trzupek has been involved in the air quality field since 1982. He has worked with a wide variety of industries, including the petro-chemical, utility, steel, graphic arts, metal finishing, synthetic organic chemical, consumer products, automobile and food processing industries. He has served as an expert witness for a variety of testing and permitting issues, as well as providing other types of litigation support. His consulting experience not only includes air pollution, but involves analyzing the business, community and environmental concerns inherent to industrial projects. Mr. Trzupek is frequently called into projects during the conceptual stage to provide strategic advice and to facilitate communication between stakeholders. He has testified before the Illinois Pollution Control Board and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. He has participated in the development of environmental rules, including: Illinois' VOM trading program, Illinois' Nox SIP rules, USEPA's air toxics program and the South Coast Air Quality Management District's VOM emissions progam. He has also testified as an expert witness in environmental litigation and is a guest lecturer for Loyola Law School's Environmental Law program for the past four years. Mr. Trzupek developed techniques used to measure emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants from steel mill coke ovens. He was also the project manager for a research program used to develop new measurement techniques for the determination of Volatile Organic Compounds: USEPA's Method 204 series. He has been a frequent speaker for organizations such as USEPA's Emission Measurement Technical Information Center, the Air & Waste Management Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Midwest Cogeneration Association and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. He is also the past Director of Air Quality for the Lake Michigan States Section of the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA). He has been a frequent contributor to a number of publications and also writes a weekly newspaper column for Examiner Publications in the Chicago suburbs.