United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of
Reseach and
Development
Energy.
Minerals and
Industry
EPA 80«/7 77 024
March 1977
Western
Energy/Environment
Monitoring Study:
Planning and
Coordination
Summary
Interagency
Energy-Environment
Research and Development
Program Report
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RESEARCH REPORTING SERIES
Research reports of the Office of Research and Development, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, have been grouped into seven series.
These seven broad categories were established to facilitate further
development and application of environmental technology. Elimination
of traditional grouping was consciously planned to foster technology
transfer and a maximum interface in related fields. The seven series
are:
1. Environmental Health Effects Research
2. Environmental Protection Technology
3. Ecological Research
4. Environmental Monitoring
5. Socioeconomic Environmental Studies
6. Scientific and Technical Assessment Reports (STAR)
7. Interagency Energy-Environment Research and Development
This report has been assigned to the INTERAGENCY ENERGY-ENVIRONMENT
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT series. Reports in this series result from
the effort funded under the 17-agency Federal Energy/Environment
Research and Development Program. These studies relate to EPA's
mission to protect the public health and welfare from adverse effects
of pollutants associated with energy systems. The goal of the Program
is to assure the rapid development of domestic energy supplies in an
environmentally—compatible manner by providing the necessary
environmental data and control technology. Investigations include
analyses of the transport of energy-related pollutants and their health
and ecological effects; assessments of, and development of, control
technologies for energy systems; and integrated assessments of a wide
range of energy-related environmental issues.
This document is available to the public through the National Technical
Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161.
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WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
PLANNING AND COORDINATION SUMMARY
DECEMBER 1976
Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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DISCLAIMER
This report has been reviewed by the Office of Research
and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and
approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial
products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for
use.
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the
Western Energy/Environment Monitoring Study. This Study is a multi-
media, multi-agency research and development effort sponsored under
the auspices of the Interagency Energy/Environment Program administered
by the Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry (Office of Research
and Development) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The document provides a general description of the objectives of
the multi-media measurements research effort and its synthesis into a
Regional Atlas of baseline media quality and its relationship to the
existing and planned pattern of regional energy development.
The chief objective of the document is to provide to the Study
participants an organizational outline of the planning, management
and coordination of the Study as well as a listing of key personnel
from all agencies (EPA, NASA, NOAA, USGS) participating in the Study.
On this basis the document will foster interagency communication and
expedite the achievement of the Study's research objectives.
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CONTENTS
Figures ii
Tables ill
1. Western Energy /Environment Monitoring Study 1
Research Operations 2
Western Energy/Environment Atlas 4
2. Planning, Management, and Coordination 5
Planning 5
Management 5
Coordination 5
Output 6
Appendix 12
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FIGURES
Number . Page
1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Western Energy/Environment
Monitoring Study - Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry (ORD)
Coordination and Management 10
APPENDIX FIGURES
2 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Western Energy/Environment
Monitoring Study - Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry (ORD)
Resource Flow Format 13
3 Western States Energy Study Area 14
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TABLES
Number Page
1 Western Energy/Environment Monitoring Study - Interagency Energy/
Environment Program 7
2 Western Energy/Environment Monitoring Study - Interagency
Coordination 8
3 Western Energy/Environment Monitoring Study - Intra-Agency
Coordination 9
APPENDIX TABLES
4 Western Energy/Environment Monitoring Study - R and D Objective
Plans 15
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SECTION 1
WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
In anticipation of the increasing energy requirements of the next quarter
century, the Federal Government is promoting the development of untapped
national energy resources. Among the major resources approaching the initial
stage of development are low-sulfur coal reserves, oil shale and geothermal
resources, all of which are located in abundance in the western United States.
Development in this area will involve greatly increased strip mining of
coal along with the construction of large conventional power plants and coal
gasification plants throughout the presently pristine plains and deserts
throughout the West. The Northern Great Plains are expected to be the focus
of coal mining and conversion related efforts, with this area and areas of the
Southwest seeing markedly increased power plant development. Oil shale tracts
in the central area of the Rocky Mountains Province are under consideration for
at least limited development of synfuels demonstration plants.
It is difficult to accurately project the extent and severity of de-
gradation of environmental quality in these areas where, to a large extent,
the air is without pollutants, the land is in a pristine condition, and the
quality of water, while not abundant, is vital to all life including man.
Consequently, it is extremely difficult to plan the types, patterns, and
magnitude of energy developments which are environmentally acceptable in
these regions and to factor such energy development into national and re-
gional environmental planning and maintenance guidelines.
In order to establish the environmental information base for such plan-
ning and guidelines, it is necessary to accurately establish present values and
to track trends in media quality, pollution pathways, and the extent of adverse
impact from specific sources and patterns of resource development. Further-
more, in order to accurately assess how air and water quality and land use are
being and will be altered by energy development, the baseline or current values
of these parameters must be measured in a consistent, comprehensive manner
throughout the western region before major new developments take place. This
information is basic to concrete regional air and water quality planning and to
future decisions on significant deterioration, regional air quality classifi-
cation, and maintenance of water quality standards keyed to energy related
pollutants.
In response to this need for information, EPA's Office of Energy, Min-
erals, and Industry (Office of Research and Development) has planned a multi-
agency study to develop integrated baseline for air quality, water quality,
and land character information on a broad scale throughout the western region.
Emphasis is on those areas whose environment will bear the major new burden of
energy development. The objective of the study is to provide an accurate
multi-media data base keyed to air and water pollutants and surface effects
associated with projected western energy resource developments. This
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multimedia data base will include not only energy development intensive locales,
but will also focus on broad areas where long-range transport of pollutants
may result in multi-jurisdictional pollution control issues. The synthesis
of this baseline data into a multi-area overview of multi-media quality as
related to the evolving pattern of energy development will be a key element
in the environmentally protective planning of western energy development on
a truly regional basis.
Cooperating with EPA in carrying out this study are elements of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey,
and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under various inter-
agency agreements.
RESEARCH OPERATIONS
Air Monitoring and Data Integration
Numerous air monitoring stations in a nine state area (Montana, North
and South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico)
operated primarily by states have been identified as appropriate for use in
the study. In addition, funding from OEMI has established several key air
and meterological monitoring stations in the Northern Great Plains and in the
oil shale areas as well as in areas of the Southwest where large power plants
exist and are planned.
Broad area aircraft monitoring by the Environmental Monitoring and Sup-
port Laboratory (EMSL), Las Vegas, Nevada, is providing data which will
complement ground-based data and will provide the interface wit^h the regional
air quality picture.
Special plume aerosol nucleation measurements by aircraft at the
Colstrip, Montana and Farmington, New Mexico power plants, as well as mete-
orological modeling support are provided by NOAA to give exhaustive data at
two key sites and to assist in the scaling in space and time of regional air
quality scenarios. Quality assurance checks and procedures are provided by
EMSL/KTP to encompass all analytical laboratories participating in the air
monitoring effort.
While most sampling is done for 862 and particulate matter emissions
from plants, a few stations are equipped for trace element and sulfate
monitoring. (Some N02 and ozone measurements are being made in the oil shale
area of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.) It is planned to increase the number
of sites which will measure sulfate and to deploy a number of dichotomous
samplers which can differentiate the level of fine particulate matter from
total suspended participates.
The coordination of the operational implementation of the study is being
carried out by EMSL/Las Vegas with quality assurance support for air monitor-
ing from EMSL/Research Triangle Park and for water monitoring from EMSL/
Cincinnati. The Energy Office of EPA Region VIII in Denver is also involved
in the study.
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The air data is being integrated and interpreted at EMSL/Las Vegas and
will be displayed in a publication such that yearly updates will provide a
clear indication of significant regional air quality trends.
Water and Groundwater Monitoring and Data Integration
USGS maintains an extensive water monitoring network in the Wes-tern U. S.
which this study has supplemented. Eight new surface water quality monitor-
ing stations have been established by the U.S. Geological Survey in the oil
shale areas of the Upper Colorado Basin to supplement their existing net-
work. In addition, new stations and intensified sampling programs are taking
place in the coal mining regions along tributaries of the Upper Missouri
River including the Yellowstone and the Powder Rivers. Analyses are being
done for numerous parameters including temperature, pH, dissolved solids,
nutrients and for metals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, lead, mercury,
and selenium.
USGS is also performing new studies of groundwater and shallow aquifers
in the oil shale regions of Colorado and Utah and at various locales associ-
ated with potential coal mining. The latter includes shallow groundwater
system reconnaissance in Northwestern Colorado and in the Yellowstone and
Missouri Rivers in Montana and chemical studies in Southwestern North Dakota
and in Montana.
EMSL/Las Vegas is monitoring aquifers on the eastern flank of the Powder
River and in the Piceance Creek Basin of Colorado where initial development
of accelerated strip mining and oil shale, respectively, are projected.
Other USGS water quality studies have been Initiated under the inter-
agency program in the Black Mesa coal mining area of Arizona and in the Four
Corners power plant area of New Mexico.
Overall quality assurance of these activities is provided by EMSL/
Cincinnati. USGS western laboratories involved in the analyses of these
measurements have entered into the energy-related quality assurance program.
EMSL/Las Vegas is synthesizing all water and groundwater quality data
for the portions of the Upper Missouri and Colorado River Basins and their
tributaries. The analysis will assist in determining what portions of these
river systems are being most affected by energy development.
Land Use Monitoring and Information Compilation
The large geographical area to be monitored demands the application of
techniques which are capable of providing synoptic environmental assessment
with a relatively short time frame. Airborne remote sensing offers such a
technique through the application of proven, operational procedures and the
promise of increased utility with further refinement and ongoing research
and development efforts.
The primary emphasis by EMSL/Las Vegas on operational remote sensing to
date has been the use of instrumentation and techniques such as photography
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(black and white, color, and color infrared), thermal infrared, and multi-
spectral scanners and laser terrain profiles (through cooperation with the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to define an environ-
mental land use baseline for the Western United States.
Through the use of both manual, photo-interpretation, and automated data
analysis, airborne acquired information may be used to determine or assess:
(1) aerial extent of strip mining impact, (2) the efficacy of reclamation
activities associated with disturbed land, (3) vegetation damage related to
mining and energy conversion, (4) revegetation practices, (5) drainage pat-
terns, and (6) impact on fresh water resources. The main objective of this
effort is to develop operational aerial techniques capable of determining the
success of extraction and processing site rehabilitation.
Initially, the program will concentrate on the development of aerial
remote sensor techniques to monitor environmental factors of coal extraction
and rehabilitation. Approximately half of the total effort will be to monitor
these activities in the Northern Great Plains, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona.
Sites of planned activity (e.g., within two to three years) and active sites
will be included. Consideration of environmental impact on surface and
near-surface water, soil condition and slopes, subsidence manifestation,
vegetation density, and speciation and other rehabilitation aspects will be
included. Fourteen coal surface mining sites were selected by EPA for ground
inves tigation.
EPA is also responsible for providing and coordinating the ground meas-
urements of site or activity-specific terrain parameters which, when remotely
measured, will provide the basis for determining quantitative environmental
impact assessment. Examples of these key parameters of features include
surface contours, vegetative density, vigor and types, subsidence features,
synoptic visibility, etc.
WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT ATLAS
The totality of data obtained will be integrated into a document which
will display local area energy development within> the perspective of the
multi-media western regional environmental quality baseline. This Atlas will
be published and updated on an annual basis and will enable planners to place
local energy-related environmental trends in a balanced regional context.
It is intended that user feedback from the initial document will be a
key guide in the development of subsequent documents.
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SECTION 2
PLANNING, MANAGEMENT, AND COORDINATION
PLANNING
The problem assessment, research objective formulation, and planning
and resource allocation for the Western Energy/Environment Monitoring
Study are the responsibility of the Energy Coordination Staff of the Of-
fice of Energy, Minerals, and Industry within EPA's Office of Research and
Development (OEMI/ORD). The Study Project Officer and Coordinator is
Dr. G. J. D'Alessio.
Specific research accomplishment plans are developed by participating
elements of NASA, NOAA, and USGS, and EPA Environmental Monitoring and
Support Laboratories. The plans from the respective agencies are reviewed
for approval by the appropriate headquarters line managers in that agency,
and allocation of funds is accomplished under interagency agreements be-
tween EPA/OEMI and NASA, NOAA, and USGS. The internal mechanism of the
coordinate objective statement is used between the Office of Energy, Minerals,
and Industry and the Office of Monitoring and Technical Support within
EPA. Funding is allocated by OEM! upon final review and approval of each
specific plan by the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Energy, Minerals, and
Industry (OR&D), Dr. Stephen J. Gage, the Interagency Program Coordinator.
MANAGEMENT
The Project Officers indicated for each specific research accomplishment
plan are responsible for the implementation and completion of the project
and achievement of the milestones described in that plan.
Interface and coordination requirements between individual projects
are explicit in the original objective statements. As a segment of the
Interagency Energy/Environment Research and Development Program admin-
istered by OEMI, formal lines of communication exist between EPA/OEMI
headquarters (planning) and the headquarters (implementation and management)
units of NASA, NOAA, and USGS which have responsibility for their respective
field units. These formal lines are used to ensure clear understanding of
research objectives and milestones at all levels and to rapidly alleviate
any difficulties which may arise in the course of the project. Any
reorientation in project emphasis from year to year is transmitted in this
fashion (see Table 1).
COORDINATION
In addition to the above arrangement, it was judged essential to
provide for a continual flow of technical information between the appro-
priate field units of EPA and the field units of NASA, NOAA, and USGS.
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Within EPA certain individuals have been designated as the EPA Field
Coordinators for specific projects implemented by NASA, NOAA, and USGS (see
Table 2). Likewise, similar channels have been established among EPA
field units (see Table 3).
Figure 1 indicates the flow of (a) research objectives from the planning
office to the project directors, (b) projects which are in direct support
of other research project activities, (c) the flow of scientific information
into overall information integration efforts, and (d) the final general output
of the Western Energy/Environment Study, in addition to which each project
develops specific reports. The Study Coordinator and EPA Field Coordinators
are available as necessary for clarification of research objectives and
operational guidance. Quarterly or semi-annual reports are produced by
the project directors and are sent to the Study Coordinator. Annual
reviews of each project take place in advance of the next year's resource
planning.
OUTPUT
Each project produces semi-annual status reports and an annual tech-
nical report. In addition to this, the Environmental Monitoring and Support
Laboratory in Las Vegas is responsible for seeing that all baseline data is
interpreted and entered in EPA's data systems (SAROAD for air data and
STORET for water data).
The data from the various projects is interpreted and synthesized
into energy-related land use maps which correlated air and water pollution
baseline data with the emerging patterns of new source development.
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TABLE 1. WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
INTERAGENCY ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM
WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT
MONITORING STUDY
INTERAGENCY ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT
PROGRAM
HEADQUARTERS PROJECT COORDINATORS:
D'ALESSIO, G.J., PROJECT OFFICER
EPA
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460
MORRISON, J.
NASA
Washington, D.C.
KILPATRICK, F.
USGS
407 National Center
Reston, Virginia 22092
BUTTON, R.
NOAA
Rockville, Maryland 20852
INTERAGENCY AGREEMENT COORDINATORS:
GAGE, S., PROGRAM COORDINATOR
EPA/ORD/ OEMI
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460
DAVIS, G.H.
USGS
407 National Center
Reston, Virginia 22092
TOWNSEND, J.W., JR.
NOAA
Office of Administrator
6010 Executive Boulevard
Rockville, Maryland 20852
STONEY, W.E.
NASA
Earth Observation Program
Washington, D.C. 20036
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TABLE 2. WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
INTERAGENCY COORDINATION
Agency Project
NASA • Western Energy
Resource Overhead
Monitoring (WEROM)
(BEL)
USGS • Western Water and
Groundwater Baseline
Monitoring
(BBW, BBY, BBZ)
NOAA • Western
Meteorological
Modelling Support
(BEK)
• Western
Atmospheric
Studies
(BEG)
Project Director EPA Field Coordinator
L. Tilton CNASA)
ERL/MTF
H. Hudson (USGS)
Denver, Colorado
L. Niemeyer (NOAA)
ESRL/RTP
R. Pueschel (NOAA)
Boulder, Colorado
H. Melfi
EMSL/Las Vegas
Land Use Study
D. McNelis1'2'3
EMSL/Las Vegas
Water Quality Study
D. McNelis
EMSL/Las Vegas
Air Quality Study
1. Long Term Baseline Data Coordination and Interpretation (Water)
2. Station Identification (Water) (T. Thoem, EPA Region VIII, Denver)
3. Quality Assurance Support (Water) (D. Ballinger, EPA/EMSL/Cincinnati)
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TABLE 3. WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
INTRA-AGENCY COORDINATION
Proj ect
Northern Great Plains
and Central Rockies
Air Monitoring Network
(AED)
Western Airborne Wide Scale
Air Monitoring
(ABF-1)
Southwest Air Monitoring
(ABF-2)
Western Quality Assurance
Support (Air) (ABP)
Western Air Data Interpretation
(ABF-3)
Western Groundwater Studies
(ABH)
Western Water Data Interpretation
(AEG)
Western Quality Assurance
Support (Water) (ABQ)
Western Land Use Monitoring
(ABI)
Project Director
T. Thoem
Region VIII
R. Snelling
EMSL/Las Vegas
D. McNeils
EMSL/Las Vegas
S. Bromberg
EMSL/RTP
R. Snelling
L. McMillion
EMSL/Las Vegas
R. Thomas
EMSL/Las Vegas
D. Ballinger
EMSL/Cincinnati
H. Melfi
EMSL/Las Vegas
Field Coordinator
D. McNelis
EMSL/Las Vegas
Air Quality STudy
D. McNelis
EMSL/Las Vegas
Water Quality Study
H. Melfi
EMSL/Las Vegas
Land Use Study
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FIGURE 1. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
OFFICE OF ENERGY, MINERALS, AND INDUSTRY (ORD) COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT
R&D Objectives & Resource
Planning OEM!/ORD
G.J. D'Alessio,
Study Coordinator
H
o
Atmospheric
Studies
NOAA/
Boulder
Peuschel
Air Quality
Assurance Support
EMSL/RTP
Bromberg
Air Quality
Network
Region VIII
Thoem
Air
Monitoring
EMSL/LV
Snelling
Meteorological
Modelling
Support
NOAA
Niemeyer
Overhead Moni-
toring Support
NASA/MTF
• Tilton
1
Remote Surface
Monitoring & Land
Use Inventory
EMSL/LV
Melfi
I
Air & Met.
Data
Integration
EMSL/LV
McNelis
Water Quality
Assurance Support
EMSL/Cinn
Ballinger
I
Groundwater
Studies
EMSL/LV
McMillion
Water & Groundwater
Monitoring
USGS/
Denver
Hudson
I
I
'— H
l
t
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE COORDINATION
INFORMATION FLOW
I I
LL
i
I
t
Water & Data
Groundwater
Data
Integration
EMSL/LV
R. Thomas
WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT ATLAS
EMSL/LV
McNelis (Melfi)
SUPPORTING ACTIVITY
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WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
Project Contacts:
BALLINGER, D.G.
EPA/EMSL
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268
513-684-2200
BROMBERG, J.
EPA/EMSL
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27711
919-549-8411
HUDSON, H.
USGS
Denver Federal Center
Water Resources Division
Box 2504 - Stop 406
Denver, Colorado 80115
303-234-4118
MCMILLION, L.
EPA/EMSL
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, Nevada 89114
702-736-2969
MCNELIS, D.
EPA/EMSL
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, Nevada 89114
702-736-2969
MELFI, H.
EPA/EMSL
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, Nevada 89114
702-736-2969
NIEMEYER, L.
NOAA
ESRL
R&P, North Carolina 27711
919-549-8411
PUESCHEL, R.F.
NOAA
Atmospheric Physics & Chemistry Lab
Boulder, Colorado 80302
303-499-1000
SNELLING, R.
EPA/EMSL
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, Nevada 89114
702-736-2969
THOEM, T.
EPA/Region VIII
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
303-837-3895
THOMAS, R.
EPA/EMSL
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, Nevada 89114
702-736-2969
TILTON, E.L.
NASA
Earth Resources Lab
NSTL
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi 39520
601-688-2034
Study Coordinator:
D'Alessio, G.J.
EPA (RD-681)
Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry
401 M St., S.W.
Washington, DC 20460
202-426-4568
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APPENDIX
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Program Resource Distribution
OEMX/OSP
S.J. Gage
Interagency Program Coordinator
1
G. Davis
USGS
IAG Coordinator
Res ton, VA
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F
W. Stoney
NASA
IAG Coordinator
Washington, DC
1
R. Towns end
NOAA
IAG Coordinator
Rockville, MD
Figure 2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Western Energy Environment Monitoring Study
Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry (ORD)
Resource Flow Format
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CALIFORNIA
TEXAS
Figure 3. Western States Energy Study Area
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TABLE 4. WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
R AND D OBJECTIVE PLANS
WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT
MONITORING STUDY
Plan Research Objective
ABF Western Regional Baseline
Air Monitoring Data Analysis
AED Northern Great Plains Energy/
Air Quality Baseline
ABP Western Air Monitoring
Quality Assurance Support
BEG Atmosphere and Meteorological
Studies of Pollutants from
Energy Production in the
Western United States
BEK Meteorological Interpretation
and Prediction of Air Quality
in the Western United States
Related to Energy Activities
AEG Western Region Water Moni-
toring and Data Analysis
BBZ Energy Related Surface Water
Monitoring/Western Region
Baseline
BBY Energy Related Groundwater
Monitoring/Western Region
Baseline
BBW Energy Related Surface and
Groundwater Monitoring
Studies/Western Region
ABQ Western Water Monitoring
Quality Assurance Support
ABH Western Groundwater Moni-
toring Methods Development
ABI Western Overhead Surface
Monitoring and Techniques
Development
Responsible Agency
EPA/EMSL/Las Vegas
EPA/Region VIII
Denver
EPA/EMSL/RTP
NOAA
NOAA
EPA/EMSL/Las Vegas
USGS
USGS
USGS
EPA/EMSL/Cincinnati
EPA/EMSL/Las Vegas
EPA/EMSL/Las Vegas
Project Director
D. McNelis
T. Thoem
S. Bromberg
R. Pueschel
L. Niemeyer
D. McNelis
H. Hudson
H. Hudson
H. Hudson
D. Ballinger
L. McMillion
H. Melfi
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TABLE 4. WESTERN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MONITORING STUDY
R AND D OBJECTIVE PLANS CContinued)
WESTEBN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT
MONITORING STUDY
Plan Research Objective Responsible Agency Project Director
BEL Technical Support for NASA E. Tilton
Western Energy Related
Environmental Assessment/
Overhead Monitoring Method
Development
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TECHNICAL REPORT DATA
(Please read Instructions on the reverse before completing)
1. REPORT NO.
EPA 600/7-77-024
3. RECIPIENT'S ACCESSION-NO.
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
Western Energy/Environment Monitoring Study
Planning and Coordination Summary
5. REPORT DATE
March 1977
6. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION CODE
7, AUTHOR(S)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NO
Gregory J. D'Alessio
9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS
Energy Coordination Staff
OEMI/OKD
10. PROGRAM ELEMENT NO.
EHE-625 C
11. CONTRACT/GRANT NO.
12. SP<
ONSORING AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Research & Development
Office of Energy, Minerals & Industry
Washington, B.C. 20460
13. TYPE OF REPORT AND PERIOD COVERED
14. SPONSORING AGENCY CODE
EPA/600/17
15. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
this project is part of the EPA-planned and coordinated Federal Interagency
Energy/Environment R&D Program.
16. ABSTRACT
This report is a summary of the planning, coordination and implementation
mechanisms which provide the framework for the Western Energy/Environment
Monitoring Study. This Study involves participation by elements of EPA,
NASA, NOAA, and USGS and is a segment of the Interagency Energy/Environment
Research and Development Program Administered by EPA.
7.
(Circle One or More)
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DESCRIPTORS
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Ecology
ilneerlng
Earth Hydrosphere
Combustion
Refining
Energy Conversion
Physical Chemistry
Materials Handling
Inorganic Chemistry
Oiganlc Chemistry
Chemical Engineering
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8H 10A 10B
7B 7C 13B
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Unclassified
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23
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Unclassified
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