Scope Study for Expanding the Great Lakes Toxic Emission Regional Inventory to include Estimated Emissions from Mobile Sources

Prepared for:

Great Lakes Commission
Regional Emission Inventory of Toxic Air Contaminants Steering Committee

October 1996

Prepared by:

Chun Yi Wu, Clifford J. Twaroski
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
520 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155

Deborah L. Swackhamer
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
420 Delaware Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Lung Chi Chen
New York University Medical Center
Institute of Environmental Medicine
Tuxedo, NY 10987

Copyright October 1996, Great Lakes Commission

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank the Steering Committee for the Great Lakes Emission Inventory of Toxic Air Contaminants for the guidance, particularly the following individuals: Carol Ratza (Great Lakes Commission), Dave Kolaz, Buzz Asselmeier (IL EPA) , Susan Bem, John Bates (IN Department of Environmental Management), Gary Baker (MI Department of Environmental Quality), Cathy Tran (MN Pollution Control Agency), Orlando Cabrera-Rivera, John Shenot, Keith Warnke (WI Department of Natural Resources), Pet er Wong (Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy), Mark Janssen (Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium), Suzanne King (U.S. EPA Region 5), and Anne Pope (U.S. EPA). The authors also want to express their appreciation to Innocent Eyoh and Mary Hoffman (MN Pollution Control Agency), who helped to conduct the survey in the Great Lakes States and Province and reviewed the scope study results. In addition, special thanks are given to those who responded to the survey in the Great Lakes States and Province. This study was supported by the Great Lakes Commission with funding provided by the U.S. EPA Great Waters Program.

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• Executive Summary (44 K)
• Introduction (3 K)
• Chapter 1: Significance of Toxic Air Emissions from Mobile Sources (95 K)
• Chapter 2: Identification and Characterization of Toxic Air Pollutants from Mobile Sources (112 K)
• Chapter 3: Level of Detail in the Estimation of Mobile Source Air Toxic Emissions (60 K)
• Chapter 4: Estimating Toxic Air Emissions from Highway (52 K)
• Chapter 5: Estimating Air Toxics Emissions from Nonroad Sources (20 K)
• Chapter 6: Estimating Air Toxics Emissions from Aircraft (26 K)
• Chapter 7: Estimating Air Toxics Emissions from Locomotives (7 K)
• Chapter 8: Framework for Computer Software Development (5 K)