Table of Contents - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Particulate Formation

3.2.1 General
3.2.2 Sources of Particulate Matter

3.2.2.1 Direct (Primary) PM_2.5
3.2.2.2 Indirect (Secondary) PM_2.5

3.3 Health and Welfare Effects

3.3.1 General
3.3.1.1 Health Effects

3.4 Environmental Effects

3.4.1 Environmental Damage
3.4.2 Aesthetic Damage
3.4.3 Visibility Reduction

3.5 Annual and 24-Hour NAAQSs
3.6 Nonattainment Designation
3.7 SIP Due Date
3.8 Attainment Date
3.9 2006 24-Hour PM_2.5 Standard Revision

4.0 Clean Air Act Section 110(a) Measures

4.1 SIP Requirements
4.2 Conclusions

5.0 Emission Inventory

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Summary of 2002 Statewide and NY/NJ/LI/CT Annual Emissions

5.2.1 Point Source Inventory Methodology
5.2.2 Area Source Inventory Methodology
5.2.3 On-Road Inventory Methodology
5.2.4 Non-Road Inventory Methodology
5.2.5 Biogenic Inventory Methodology
5.2.6 Onroad Mobile Source Emissions and Re-entrained Road Dust

5.3 Summary of Future Year Emissions

5.3.1 Projection Methodologies for Point, EGU, and Area Sources
5.3.2 On-Road Projection Methodology
5.3.3 Non-Road Projection Methodology
5.3.4 Biogenic Future Year Emissions

6.0 Air Quality Trends, Baselines and Projections for the New York Nonattainment Area (New York Metropolitan Area, Connecticut and Northern New Jersey)

6.1 Air Quality Trends - New York

6.1.1 FRM Data
6.1.2 STN Data
6.1.3 Trend Summary - New York

6.2 Air Quality Trends - Connecticut and New Jersey

6.2.1 Connecticut
6.2.2 New Jersey
6.2.3 Analysis
6.2.4 Trend Summary - Connecticut and New Jersey

6.3 Baseline and Future PM_2.5 Design Values

6.3.1 Current PM_2.5 Design Values

6.3.1.1 Baseline Species Concentrations
6.3.1.2 Relative Response Factors

6.3.2 Future PM_2.5 Design Values

6.4 Weight of Evidence (WOE) in Support of Modeled Attainment of the PM_2.5 NAAQS in the New York City Nonattainment Area

6.4.1 Monitoring Network in New York County and Surroundings
6.4.2 Other Data Analysis
6.4.3 Summary
6.4.4 Additional Information

6.5 Weight of Evidence: Additional Measures Not Accounted for in Modeling Projections

6.5.1 Part 222, Distributed Generation
6.5.2 NO_x RACT: High Electricity Demand Day Units
6.5.3 Clean Air Interstate Rule
6.5.4 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2006
6.5.5 Existing State VOC Reduction Measures

6.5.5.1 Part 205: Architectural and Industrial Maintenance (AIM) Coatings
6.5.5.2 Part 208: Landfill Gas Collection & Control Systems for Certain Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
6.5.5.3 Part 226: Solvent Metal Cleaning
6.5.5.4 Part 228: Surface Coating Processes
6.5.5.5 Part 229: Petroleum and Volatile Organic Liquid Storage and Transfer
6.5.5.6 Part 230: Gasoline Dispensing Sites and Transport Vehicles
6.5.5.7 Part 233: Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Manufacturing Processes

6.5.6 New or Revised State VOC Reduction Measures

6.5.6.1 Part 228: Surface Coating Processes and Part 235: Consumer Products
6.5.6.2 Part 234: Graphic Arts
6.5.6.3 Part 235: Consumer Products
6.5.6.4 Part 239: Portable Fuel Containers
6.5.6.5 Part 241: Asphalt Formulation

6.5.7 Federal VOC Measures

6.5.7.1 VOC MACT
6.5.7.2 Federal Reformulated Gasoline

6.5.8 Proposed Federal Rules

6.5.8.1 Federal Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines and Equipment

6.5.9 PlaNYC
6.5.10 Canadian Emission Reductions
6.5.11 New York State's "15 by 15" Initiative
6.5.12 NYSERDA Programs

7.0 Control Measures

7.1 Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT)
7.2 Reasonably Available Control Measures (RACM)
7.3 Particulate Matter

7.3.1 Existing State Particulate Matter Measures

7.3.1.1 Part 215: Open Burning

7.3.2 Existing Federal Particulate Matter Measures

7.3.2.1 Locomotive Engines and Marine Compression-Ignition Engines Final Rule

7.3.3 New or Revised State Particulate Matter Measures

7.3.3.1 Part 227: Stationary Combustion Installations

7.4 Sulfur

7.4.1 Existing State Sulfur Measures

7.4.1.1 Part 225: Fuel Consumption and Use
7.4.1.2 Part 238: Acid Deposition Reduction SO2 Budget Trading Program

7.4.2 Existing Federal Sulfur Measures

7.4.2.1 Clean Air Act Title IV - Acid Rain Program
7.4.2.2 Low Sulfur Fuels

7.5 Nitrogen Oxides

7.5.1 Existing State NO_x Measures

7.5.1.1 Part 204: NO_x Budget Trading Program
7.5.1.2 Part 210: Emissions and Labeling Requirements for Personal Watercraft Engines
7.5.1.3 Part 217: Motor Vehicle Emissions
7.5.1.4 Part 218: Emission Standards for Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Engines
7.5.1.5 Part 237: Acid Deposition Reduction NO_x Budget Trading Program

7.5.2 New or Revised State NO_x Measures

7.5.2.1 Part 212: General Process Emission Sources
7.5.2.2 Subpart 220-1: Portland Cement Plants
7.5.2.3 Subpart 220-2: Glass Manufacturing
7.5.2.4 Part 227: Stationary Combustion Installations
7.5.2.5 Part 231: New Source Review in Nonattainment Areas and Ozone Transport Region

7.5.3 Existing Federal NO_x Measures

7.5.3.1 Large Industrial Spark-Ignition Engines Over 19kW and Recreational Vehicles
7.5.3.2 Federal Diesel Fuel
7.5.3.3 Small Spark-Ignition Engines
7.5.3.4 Nonroad Diesel Engines
7.5.3.5 NO_x MACT

7.6 VOC and Ammonia

8.0 Contingency Measures

8.1 Background
8.2 Contingency Measures
8.3 Other Measures

9.0 Reasonable Further Progress

10.0 Conformity

10.1 Transportation Conformity
10.2 General Conformity
10.3 Conformity Budget

10.3.1 Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets (MVEBs)
10.3.2 PM_2.5 Precursors
10.3.3 Road Dust and Construction Related Fugitive Dust
10.3.4 Budgets for Attainment of the Annual PM_2.5 NAAQS

11.0 Other Programs

11.1 New Source Review and Prevention of Significant Deterioration
11.2 Permitting
11.3 Emission Statements
11.4 Enforceable Measures

List of Tables

Table 5-1 Statewide Summary of Emissions
Table 5-2 New York Metropolitan Area Summary of Emissions
Table 5-3 NY/NJ/LI/CT nonattainment area 2009 Summary
Table 5-4 NY/NJ/LI/CT nonattainment area 2011
Table 6-1 Summary of PlaNYC Effort
Table 6-2 Listing of FRM sites, 1999-2006.
Table 6-3 Trends in PM_2.5 mass at the longest running FRM monitors
Table 6-4 Listing of Speciation Trends Network (STN) sites, 2000-2006
Table 6-5 Listing of FRM sites, 1999-2006
Table 6-6 Annual average PM_2.5 levels (µg/m3) for sites with at least 75 percent valid samples in a given year, 2000-2006
Table 6-7 The 98th percentile of PM_2.5 levels (µg/m3) for sites with at least 75 percent valid samples in a given year, 2000-2006
Table 6-8 Trends in PM_2.5 mass at the longest running FRM monitors, based on quarterly averages from 1999-2006
Table 6-9 Third quarter 2002 average PM_2.5 values at the NY and NJ FRM monitors in the NYC NAA
Table 6-10 Baseline PM_2.5 design values at all FRM monitors across the NYC NAA as computed by MATS using the official EPA database (which includes flagged data from July 2002 in NY and NJ), and excluding the flagged data from July 2002 in NY and NJ
Table 6-11 Baseline non-blank species composition at all FRM monitors across the NYC NAA as computed by MATS
Table 6-12 Baseline and future PM_2.5 design values at all FRM monitors across the NYC NAA as computed by MATS, excluding flagged FRM days
Table 6-13 Information for the five FRM monitors considered in this analysis: site name and ID, dates of operation during 2000-2004, base year PM_2.5 design value, and the nearest STN monitor
Table 6-14 Current PM_2.5 species composition at each site
Table 6-15 Annual average PM_2.5 mass over the nine grid cells surrounding each monitor from the base year (2002) and future year (2009) CMAQ simulations, as well as the absolute and percent reductions
Table 6-16 Base and future year PM_2.5 design values
Table 7-1 Recreational Marine Diesel Emission Standards
Table 7-2 Nonroad Diesel Emission Standards
Table 8-1 Contingency Calculation
Table 10-1 Transportation Conformity Emission Budgets for PM_2.5 Attainment

List of Figures

Figure 6-1 Map of Downstate FRM Sites
Figure 6-2 Average PM_2.5 Speciation - Annual, Winter, and Summer
Figure 6-3 PM_2.5 FRM Sites in New York City

List of Appendices

Appendix A - Clean Air Act Section 110(a) SIP Guidance (PDF 314 kb, 7pgs)
Appendix B - Modeling Technical Support Document (PDF 1.1mb, 90pgs) Attachments (PDF 811kb, 31pgs)
Appendix C - Area Source Methodology (PDF 92 kb, 38pgs)
Appendix D - Future Year Electricity Generating Sector Emission Inventory Development (PDF 181kb, 42 pgs)
Appendix E - Emission Inventory (PDF 67 kb, 11pgs)
Appendix F - EPA Approval to Flag Canadian Fire Data (PDF 6.85 mb, 43pgs) FTP download
- Correspondence between DEC and EPA (PDF 709kb, 3pgs)
- 2002 Daily PM_2.5 (FRM) Statewide Map of NY (PDF 331kb, 1pg)
- NYSDOH Alert and satellite images of NY and Canadian wildfires 2002 (PDF 1.6mb, 4pgs)
- Satellite images of NY and Canadian wildfires (PDF 1.4mb, 3pgs)
- Maps of NYS Backward Trajectory from source at 42.93N 78.73W July 6 through 8, 2002 (PDF 1mb, 6pgs)
- Maps of NYS Backward Trajectory from source at 42.93N 78.73W July 9 through 12, 2002 (PDF 979kb, 5pgs)
- Maps of NYS Backward Trajectory from source at 40.77N 73.98W July 6 through 8, 2002 (PDF 1.1mb, 6pgs)
- Maps of NYS Backward Trajectory from source at 40.77N 73.98W July 9 through 11, 2002 (PDF 833kb, 5pgs)
- Maps of NYS Backward Trajectory from source at 44.20N 74.00W July 6 through 8, 2002 (PDF 934kb, 6pgs)
- Maps of NYS Backward Trajectory from source at 44.20N 74.00W July 8 through 10, 2002 (PDF 669kb, 4pgs)
Appendix G - Sample Calculations (PDF 69 kb, 4pgs)