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Motor Vehicles and Fuels - Mobile
Sources |
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Recommended Projects |
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Analysis of Weekend Episodic
Activity |
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To conduct a comprehensive study of the activity changes in the mobile source
fleet from weekday to weekend with emphasis on understanding the relationship between activity and air
quality. |
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Cost: $500,000 |
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Recommended if Funding Available |
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Analysis of Emissions
From Portable Fuel Containers |
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To improve the overall hydrocarbon emissions inventory, by studying the
emissions from gasoline cans. |
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Cost: $100,000 |
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A Large Scale Global
Positioning System (GPS) Instrumented Vehicle Study for the Collection of Statewide Automobile Activity
Data |
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To improve the spatial and temporal resolution of automobile activity data
inputs to the mobile source emissions inventory model. |
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Cost: $500,000 |
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II.
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Toxic Air Contaminants - Toxic
Air Contaminants |
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Recommended |
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A Study to Validate Concentrations
Estimated from Air Dispersion Modeling for Source-To-Receptor Distances of Less Than 100 Meters |
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For Source-To-Receptor dispersion modeling at distances less than 100 meters from
the source to the receptor site. |
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Cost: $150,000 |
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III.
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California Clean Air Act - Stationary
Sources |
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Recommended |
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Maximum Incremental Reactivities
for Volatile Organic Compounds Used in Architectural Coatings |
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To determine the MIR, and the degree of uncertainty associated with each
value, of any compounds identified in the 1998 Architectural Coatings Survey that have not already been
studied or for which there is a large degree of uncertainty in the MIR values. |
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Cost: $200,000 |
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Update the Industrial
Coatings Emission Inventory |
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To quantify the activity and emissions from the industrial coatings category.
To determine if current coating technology in this category reduces emissions and if there are any projected changes
in formulation that may further reduce air pollution emissions. |
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Cost: $200,000 |
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Recommended if Funding Available |
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Update the Thinning and
Cleaning Solvents Emission Inventory |
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To quantify the activity and emissions from this category. To determine
if current solvent technology in this category reduces emissions and if there are any projected changes
in formulations that may further reduce air pollution emissions. |
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Cost: $150,000 |
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Development of a Test
Method to Measure the Emissions from Portable Engines |
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To develop a test method for portable engines that would be used to verify
compliance with specified emission limits and newly manufactured engine standards set by the ARB and th U.S. EPA. |
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Cost: $250,000 |
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IV.
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California Clean Air Act - Regional
Air Quality |
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Recommended |
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Analysis of Data Collected
During the 1997 Southern California Ozone Study (SCOS97) |
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To analyze the data collected during SCOS97 |
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Cost: $500,000 |
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Recommended if Funding Available |
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Adaptation of Air Quality
Models to Use More Accurate Treatments of Pollutants Deposition |
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To incororate recommended improvements for treatment of gaseous pollutant deposition
into two existing air quality models. |
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Cost: $50,000 |
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Dust Mitigation in the
Deserts of California |
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To develop cost-effective solutions for mitigating windblown dust and PM10
in the California desert, including agricultural acreage, dirt roads, burned lands and disturbed
lands in general. |
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Cost: $150,000 |
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California Clean Air Act - Economic
Studies |
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Recommended if Funding Available |
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Valuing Health Effects
of Particulate and Ozone Pollution |
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To estimate the total health benefits of avoiding specified particulate
and ozone-related morbidity using both the cost of illness and the contingent valuation (CV) methods. |
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Cost: $150,000 |
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Air Quality Standards - Health
Effects |
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Recommended |
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Exposure Effects and
Toxicity of Ambient Particulate Matter |
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To determine the mechanisms by which ambient PM causes adverse health impacts
and the role of the various components of California's PM in causing these effects. |
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Cost: $1,150,000 |
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Exposure Estimation
Enhancement and Validation for Southern California Children |
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To measure indoor/outdoor and personal exposure of particulate matter (PM2.5
and PM10), oxides of nitrogen, and ozone, and to use this data to refine and validate the exposure estimation
models developed for the Children's Health Study. To measure ultra fine particles at Southern California ambient monitoring
sites. |
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Cost: $100,000 |
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Recommended if Funding Available |
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Asthma and Ambient Air
Pollution |
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To develop a study protocol that will outline procedures for defining the
clinical, immunologic, and physiologic responses to ambient air pollutants among an ethically diverse study population,
with consideration of other potential risk factors. |
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Cost: $150,000 |
