The WESTAR Spring 2016 business meeting and WRAP membership meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, beginning on the morning of Tuesday, April 19th and ending by 5:00 on Wednesday, April 20th. A preliminary agenda is under development and will be circulated in the next few weeks. Additional information will be posted on the WESTAR website and the WRAP website. Meanwhile, please mark your calendars and start making your plans to join us in Lake Tahoe!
Topics will include:
Implementing the new ozone standard
Regional haze program changes
Oil and Gas: rules, state experiences and technologies
Exceptional events rule revisions and guidance
EPA/OAQPS update and discussion
~ Draft Agenda as of 3/4/16 ~
WESTAR and WRAP Spring Business Meeting
April 19-20, 2016
Incline Village, NV
Tuesday, April 19
8:00 – 10:00 am Executive Session and Tribal Caucus
10:15 – 11:45 Business
Opening of WESTAR - WRAP meeting
WRAP Board welcome – Randy Ashley, Tribal Co-Chair and Eric Massey, State Co-Chair
WESTAR Council welcome – Bryce Bird, President
Introductions around the room and on the phone
Review/approval of previous meeting summary
Location of fall WESTAR/WRAP meeting
Nomination Committee recommendations – WESTAR Board
Review of WRAP Board terms and members
Staff reports
Committee and workgroup reports
Financial report (Will Allison)
11:45 – 1:15 Lunch (on your own)
1:15 –2:15 OAQPS Overview (Anna Wood)
2:15-3:15 Ozone NAAQS implementation
SIP process (Anna Wood)
EPA Interstate transport technical issues (Chet Wayland)
Western state comments on background ozone white paper/workshop
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30 -5:00 Hot topics:
SO2 NAAQS
E-permitting panel
5:00-6:00 as needed, separate Tribal Caucus and Local Air Agency meetings with WESTAR-WRAP staff
6:00 No Host dinner-location to be determined
Wednesday, April 20
8:00 – 9:30 Exceptional Events Rulemaking and Wildfire/Ozone Guidance
Overview of WESTAR comments
Roundtable from states: (Roundtable questions will be provided in advance of meeting)--state comments, regional-scale technical tools, inter-jurisdictional coordination examples
9:30-10:00 Smoke Management and Fire
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:00 Regional haze planning
EPA proposal (OAQPS)
Regional Haze workgroup and workplan update (Tina Suarez-Murias)
11:00-12:00 WRAP Workplan (Tom Moore)
12:00-1:15 Lunch (provided)
1:15 – 2:15 Oil and Gas: rules, state experiences and technologies
2:15-3:00 Climate Change initiatives states roundtable (Roundtable questions will be provided in advance of meeting)
3:00-4:00 Efficiency Improvements Roundtable –how are states meeting resource challenges? (Roundtable questions will be provided in advance of meeting)
4:00 Adjourn