2026 Advanced Air Seminar Schedule

8:30 – 8:40 a.m.

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

Jeet Radia
Air Quality Committee Chair
McWane, Inc.
Birmingham, AL

8:40 a.m. – Noon

1. EMISSION ESTIMATION

Jeet Radia
Air Quality Committee Chair
McWane, Inc.
Birmingham, AL

Curtis Veit
Waupaca Foundry, Inc.
Waupaca, WI

Emission Inventories and Factors
Sources of Emission Factors
Sources of Emissions and Pollutants
Emission Estimation Techniques and Tools
Filterable versus Condensable PM
HAP and GHG Emission Estimating
Exercises: Identification of foundry processes, pollutants and origins; estimate emissions from melting, pouring, cooling, shakeout, finishing and cdoremaking

Noon – 1 p.m.

LUNCH

1 – 4:30 p.m.

2. AIR PERMITTING

Jenny Pappalardo
Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Co.
Waupaca, WI

JoAnna Peterson
TRC
West Allis, WI

Craig Schmeisser
Mad River Strategies, LLC
New Bremen, OH

State Permitting
NAAQS and Relationship to Air Permitting
NANSR versus PSD
Delegated versus SIP-Approved Programs
NSR / PSD Permitting
Applicability by Pollutant
28-Source Categories
Consideration of Fugitive Emissions
Facility Definition
Defining a Project and Aggregation
Routine Maintenance Repair and Replacement
Replacement Units
Limiting Potential to Emit
How to Become a Minor Source Not Subject to PSD
NSR Reform Applicability Tests vs. the Old Rule
Project Emissions versus Netting
Project Emissions Accounting Rule
Latest on Facility Reactivation
Permitting Strategies and Avoidance (NSR/PSD, MACT)
Exercises – Determine if Facility is in Attainment or Nonattainment Area, Facility Definition, Project Definition, Determining Project Emissions (old), Project Emissions (new), Project PSD Avoidance, Routine Maintenance Repair and Replacement