Notice of STAR Program Implementation Workshop

The Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District will hold its first workshop on implementing the Strategic Toxic Air Reduction (STAR) Program on Thursday, November 10, 2005, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., in the Board Room, 850 Barret Avenue, Louisville. The District invites representatives of companies subject to the STAR Program, environmental consultants, and the public to attend.

Workshop Agenda

1. Deriving a benchmark ambient concentration (BAC) for a toxic air contaminant (TAC) (Regulation 5.20)
2. Calculating the de minimis amounts for a TAC based on the BAC (Regulation 5.01 section 1.6.4)
3. Categories of TACs (Regulation 5.23)
4. Demonstrating environmental acceptability for new and modified processes and process equipment (Regulation 5.21 sections 2.1 to 2.2 and Section 3)
5. De minimis emission - six different ways (Regulation 5.01 section 1.6)
6. Useful conversion equations
7. Using the Tier 1 table to calculate risk (Regulation 5.22 Section 2)
8. Using the Tier 2 table to calculation risk (Regulation 5.22 Section 3)
9. Introduction to SCREEN3 (Tier 3) modeling (Regulation 5.22 Section 4)
10. Questions
11. Suggestions for topics for the second STAR workshop