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Environment Quick News
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Monthly Report on EPRI's Environmental Research Programs |
February
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Program members can use their EPRI.com ID and password to download
Acrobat PDF files of EPRI technical reports. For assistance, contact
the EPRI Customer Assistance Center at (800) 313-3774. |
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Dear Environment Sector members:
Happy New Year. We hope you all had a wonderful holiday. It is
hard to believe a month of 2009 has now passed, we have a new president,
and the economy is still topic #1 (along with the Super Bowl, at
least for you Pittsburgh fans).
We are in the process of planning for the upcoming March advisory
meetings in San Diego. We hope you are all planning to attend, although
we know that some of you have potential travel constraints. We are
in the process of finalizing agendas and expect to provide you with
important updates to ongoing research and to discuss topical issues,
such as how we are revising our research portfolios to respond to
the ever-changing regulatory, legislative, and external environment
scene.
At this meeting, we will also be discussing our draft 2010 research
program and seeking your feedback on funding priorities. This is
an important function that you play, as it helps us understand more
clearly where we need to be focusing our efforts to meet your needs.
The advisors from each research program will set priorities, and
the Sector Council will look across all of EPRI's environmental
research programs and provide perspectives on the big picture in
terms of importance and value. That information helps us decide
how to price our programs, develop new supplemental projects, and
assign staff priorities.
We are looking forward to seeing you in San Diego.
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Energy Sustainability Interest Group met in Portland,
OR, on Oct 28–29, 2008, for its final workshop of
the year and to make plans for 2009. |
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| Program 42: Air Toxics Health and Risk
Assessment |
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Wherever there are significant coal deposits there may
be uncontrolled coal “wildfires” burning in
the subsurface. |
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| . At the Mount Bachelor Observatory
(MBO) in Oregon, EPRI is sponsoring research to assess
the impact of pollutants originating in Asia on western
North American atmospheric composition and air quality. |
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| . This Technical Update reviews
growing field and laboratory evidence for the rapid chemical
transformation of reactive mercury to elemental mercury
in power plant plumes. |
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| Program 91: Assessment Tools for Ozone,
Particulate Matter, and Haze |
| . This Fact Sheet describes
the motivation and methodologies of the August Mini-Intensive
Gas and Aerosol Study, which brought together an extensive
suite of measurement instruments and technologies to collect
atmospheric data at two sites in Georgia from Aug. 1 to
Sept. 15, 2008. |
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| Program 92: Assessment of Air Quality
Impacts on Health and the Environment |
| . This Success Story presents interviews
with Tom Burnett, Environmental Senior Specialist for
the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Fred Starheim, Manager
of Environmental Permitting and Compliance for FirstEnergy,
discussing the value to their companies of EPRI’s
research on air pollution and health. |
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Children’s Air Pollution Asthma Study team met with
the project’s external Scientific Advisory Committee
(SAC) to review progress to date. |
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The Michigan Integrated Cohort and Animal Particle Study
has been officially launched, and field work is scheduled
to begin this summer. |
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the Global Climate Webpage |
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| Program 102: Global Climate Policy Costs
and Benefits |
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This article, based on EPRI-supported research, is available
as a Discussion Paper at the Resources for the Future
website. |
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| . EPRI’s Steven
Rose will make two presentations at the International
Scientific Conference on Climate Change, to be held Mar.
10–12 in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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| Program 103: Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Options |
| . This Technical Update
covers the first two years of a three-year project investigating
an innovative approach to developing large-scale and potentially
cost-effective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions offsets
that could be implemented across broad geographic areas
of the U.S. and internationally. |
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| . This Technical Update, which is
publicly available, summarizes EPRI’s 2008 work
and 2009 plans for its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions
Offset Policy Dialogue project. |
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| . This Technical
Report presents interim results of a multiyear effort
to better understand how climate policy could impact electric
power sector investment and operating decisions. |
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| . This Technical Update
evaluates the potential ability of borrowing emissions
from future-year emissions allowances to help reduce the
costs and cost volatility of cap-and-trade programs for
GHG emissions. |
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| . The November 2008 issue of Public
Utilities Fortnightly includes an article by EPRI’s
Victor Niemeyer entitled “Carbon in the West,”
which notes that “Prices between $50 and $80 a ton
will trigger major market responses.” |
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| Program 49: Coal Combustion Products—Environmental
Issues |
| . Supporting the expanded use of flue
gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum in agriculture is the
goal of a research network formed by EPRI, individual
power generating companies, EPA, and the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. |
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| . Managers can use this information to
evaluate the transport and fate of these constituents
at coal combustion product (CCP) management sites. |
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| Program 50: MGP Site Management |
| . This Technical Update provides managers with
tools they need to evaluate and design effective sediment
capping remedies for former manufactured gas plant (MGP)
sites. |
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| . A database of surface soil samples,
previously analyzed for 17 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs), has yielded important new information that will
help site owners distinguish PAHs related to former MGP
operations from urban background PAHs. |
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| . This manual provides a step-by-step
analysis of options for assessing MGP sites where coal
tar interacts with underlying fractured bedrock. |
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| . Registration is now open
for the 2010 EPRI MGP Symposium, scheduled for next January
in San Antonio, TX. |
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| Program 59: PISCES—Plant Multimedia
Toxics Characterization |
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This Technical Update reviews data from previous studies
to characterize the multimedia fate of selenium and boron
in coal-fired power plants equipped with particulate control
devices and wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems. |
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| . The LARK-TRIPP Users
Group Workshop will be meet March 3–4 in Charlotte,
NC. |
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| Program 53: Water Quality Criteria Development
and Assessment |
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This article is based on research cofunded by EPRI as
part of the Mercury Experiment to Assess Atmospheric Loading
in Canada and the United States (METAALICUS) study. |
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| . This Technical Update describes the
status of activities to upgrade the Dynamic Mercury Cycling
Model (D-MCM), an EPRI simulation model that predicts
mercury cycling and bioaccumulation in lakes. |
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| . This Technical Update is an
interim report on a project on arsenic bioaccumulation. |
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| Program 54: Fish Protection at Steam
Electric Power Plants |
| . Blockage of cooling water
intakes occurs frequently at nuclear and fossil power
plants worldwide. |
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| . This report documents development
of a barrier net design applicable to cooling water intake
structures (CWISs) located on rivers with moderate to
high currents and debris loading. |
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| Program 55: Strategic Water Issues |
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| . The Program 55 Program Steering Committee
has selected and ranked twelve potential deliverables. |
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| Program 56: Effluent Guidelines and Water
Quality Management |
| . This Technical Update presents
an inventory of ZLD water management systems currently
operating at U.S. power generating stations. |
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| . This Technical Report
presents preliminary results of a study conducted by Duke
Energy to test the potential effectiveness of vertical
flow wetlands (VFWs) for the removal of selenium, mercury,
and other related compounds from a flue gas desulfurization
(FGD) discharge. |
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| Program 58: Hydropower Environmental
Issues |
| . Doug Dixon has accepted an invitation to join
the steering committee for the HydroVision 2010 conference,
to be held in Charlotte, NC, in July 2010. |
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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
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| Program 62: Occupational Health and Safety |
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ergonomics handbook focuses on tasks performed by plant
operators and mechanics working in fossil-fueled generating
stations. |
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This Technical Report presents illness and injury trends
for electrical industry workers based on data collected
for EPRI’s Occupational Health and Safety Database
(OHSD) program. |
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| ENVIRONMENT SUPPLEMENTAL
PROJECTS |
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| Environment Sector |
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| Air Quality |
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| Global Climate Change |
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| Land and Groundwater Issues |
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| Water and Ecosystems |
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| T&D Environmental Issues |
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| Program 60: EMF Health Assessment and RF Safety.
Currently no supplemental projects |
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| Occupational Health and Safety |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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| Environment Sector |
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EPRI sponsored or cosponsored event
* Environment
Sector and Area Council Advisory Meetings
Mar. 16–19, San Diego, CA. Contact: Adina Kozuh, (650)
855-2991, akozuh@epri.com.
* Environment
Sector and Area Council Advisory Meetings
Oct. 5–8, Boulder, CO. Contact: Adina Kozuh, (650) 855-2991,
akozuh@epri.com.
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| Air Quality |
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EPRI sponsored or cosponsored event
Annual EPRI/UARG Air Toxics Research Coordination
Meeting
May 6–8, Palo Alto, CA. Contact: Leonard Levin, (650)
855-7929, llevin@epri.com.
9th International Conference on Mercury as a
Global Pollutant
June 7–12, Guiyang, China. Contact: Leonard Levin, (650)
855-7929, llevin@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website.
Air Quality VII Conference
Oct. 25–29, Arlington, VA. Contact: Leonard Levin, (650)
855-7929, llevin@epri.com.
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| Global Climate Change |
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14th Annual EPRI Global Climate Change Research
Seminar
May 20–21, Washington, DC. Contact: Ana Montes, (650)
855-2165, amontes@epri.com.
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| Land and Groundwater Issues |
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denotes EPRI sponsored or cosponsored event
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LARK-TRIPP Users Group Workshop
Mar. 3–4, Charlotte, NC. Contact: Naomi Goodman, (650)
855-2193, ngoodman@epri.com.
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AEHS Soils, Sediments, and Water Conference
Mar. 9–12, San Diego, CA Contact: Jim Lingle, (414)
355-5559, jlingle@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website.
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World of Coal Ash
May 4–7, Lexington, KY. Contact: Ken Ladwig, (262) 754-2744,
keladwig@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website.
Annual EPRI/UARG Air Toxics Research Coordination
Meeting
May 6-8, Palo Alto, CA. Contact: Leonard Levin, (650) 855-7929,
llevin@epri.com.
9th International Conference on Mercury as a
Global Pollutant
June 7-12, Guiyang, China. Contact: Leonard Levin, (650) 855-7929,
llevin@epri.com. More
information is available at the event
website.
* MGP Mid-Year Meeting
June 25-26, Chicago, IL. Contact: Jeff Clock, (845) 608-0642,
jclock@epri.com, or Jim
Lingle, (414) 355-5559, jlingle@epri.com.
Air Quality VII Conference
Oct. 25-29, Arlington, VA. Contact: Leonard Levin, (650) 855-7929,
llevin@epri.com.
* EPRI MGP 2010
Symposium
Jan. 27-29, 2010, San Antonio, TX. Contact: Jeff Clock, (845)
608-0642, jclock@epri.com,
or Jim Lingle, (414) 355-5559, jlingle@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website. |
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| Water and Ecosystems |
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denotes EPRI sponsored or cosponsored event
* Advanced Water-Conserving
Cooling Technologies Development and Demonstration Program
Advisory Committee Meeting
Feb. 17, Dallas, TX. Contact: Kent Zammit, (805) 481-7349,
kezammit@epri.com.
The purpose of this advisory committee meeting will be to
discuss the various research proposals for the Advanced Cooling
Technology (ACT) Program and provide input to EPRI in setting
priorities for the coming year.
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Workshop on Best Management Practices for Preventing
Cooling Water Intake Blockages
Feb. 26–27, Crystal River, FL. Contact: Kent Zammit,
(805) 481-7349, kezammit@epri.com.
More information and registration are available at the event
website.
* Second Forum on
Energy & Water Sustainability: Increasing Resource Productivity
Apr. 10, Goleta, CA. Contact: Robert Goldstein, (650) 855-2593,
rogoldst@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website.
9th International Conference on Mercury as a
Global Pollutant
June 7–12, Guiyang, China. Contact: Leonard Levin, (650)
855-7929, llevin@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website.
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| T&D Environmental Issues |
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29th International Congress on Occupational Health
Mar. 22–27, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact: Gabor
Mezei, (650) 855-8908, gmezei@epri.com.
The congress will include a special session on EMF. More information
is available at the event
website.
The Bioelectromagnetics Society 31st Annual Meeting
June 14–19, Davos, Switzerland. Contact: Rob Kavet,
(650) 855-1061, rkavet@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website.
* Mid-Year Joint
Meeting of P51 (Transmission & Distribution) and P57 (Rights-of-Way)
July 8–9, Charlotte, NC. Contact: Babu Nott, (650) 855-7946,
bnott@epri.com. More information
is available at the event
website.
* 2009
EMF Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting
July 20–21, Milwaukee, WI. Contact: Rob Kavet, (650)
855-1061, rkavet@epri.com.
Ninth International Symposium on Environmental
Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management
Sept. 27–Oct. 1, Portland, OR. Contact: John W. Goodrich-Mahoney,
(202) 293-7516, jmahoney@epri.com.
More information and a call for papers are available at the
event
website.
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| Occupational Health & Safety |
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denotes EPRI sponsored or cosponsored event
29th International Congress on Occupational Health
Mar. 22–27, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact: Gabor
Mezei, (650) 855-8908, gmezei@epri.com.
More information is available at the event
website.
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