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ab2588 -- CAPCOA releases draft update of the Facility Prioritization Guidance document for public comment
Posted: 25 Apr 2016 14:50:36
The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) has released a Draft update to their Facility Prioritization Guidance document for public review and comment. This document is available at the CAPCOA website www.capcoa.org. CAPCOA will be accepting comments through June 3, 2016. Based on comments submitted, CAPCOA may schedule workshops for further opportunities to comment. The Facility Prioritization Guidelines were developed by the Toxics and Risk Managers Committee (TARMAC) of CAPCOA in response to revisions to the State Office of Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA) health risk assessment methodologies contained in the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program Risk Assessment Guidelines: Guidance Manual for the Preparation of Health Risk Assessments (February 2015). The purpose of the Risk Prioritization Guidelines document is to provide California air pollution control and air quality management districts with suggested procedures for use in prioritizing facilities into high, intermediate, and low priority categories as required by the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Information and Assessment Act of 1987 (Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Act) in accordance with Health and Safety Code §44344.4(c). This law established a statewide program for inventory of air toxics emissions from individual facilities as well as requirements for risk assessment and public notification. Appendix A contains a copy of the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Act. These guidelines were originally developed in 1990 and are being revised to incorporate the new health risk assessment methodologies determined by OEHHA in February 2015 http://oehha.ca.gov/air/hot_spots/2015/2015GuidanceManual.pdf. To allow districts to continue to use existing risk prioritization programs and related software, the 2015 updated prioritization guidelines were revised to incorporate revised carcinogenic normalization factors to account for the new methodologies. CAPCOA understands the existing approach has limitations and will evaluate the need to expand the prioritization guidelines to better address variations due to source types and changes in air dispersion modeling programs. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.
