Meeting/Event Information

Join us for in-person to screen the upcoming AWMA webinar, "The Impact of the New PM_2.5 NAAQS" followed by a panel discussion with local experts!

The setting of a new PM_2.5 NAAQS will have broad impacts. The PM_2.5 NAAQS will define new nonattainment areas with the potential for changing permitting and enforcement requirements as state, local and tribal air agencies work to address nonattainment areas. Attainment areas may be affected by updated transport rules to ensure that transport of PM_2.5 precursors and emissions are accounted for. EPA will also be releasing some new guidance and tools pertaining to exceptional events with the new standard, especially for wildfire and prescribed fire smoke. The webinar will have up-to-date information and analysis of the broad impacts of the new standard.

Following the webinar, we will have a panel of local experts discussing the implications of the new PM_2.5 NAAQS.  This panel will include:

• Hassan Bouchareb, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Hassan is an engineer in the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s Air Policy unit and has worked at the MPCA for the last 13 years. Hassan works primarily on mercury reduction related efforts and Regional Haze planning, but also spends time on air quality rulemakings and other air program initiatives.
• John Ke, Trinity Consultants - John has been a consultant with Trinity Consultants for over four years. His work primarily covers air dispersion modeling, air quality permitting, and air emissions inventories in Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Illinois, and New York.
• Kelsey Suddard, Braun Intertec - Kelsey is a senior engineer with Braun Intertec Corporation with over fifteen years of experience in the environmental regulatory field. She assists clients with a range of air quality regulatory obligations.  Prior to joining Braun Intertec, Kelsey worked as a supervisor and air quality engineer for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) managing air quality permit projects for a variety of industry sectors.
• Phil Fish, Barr Engineering - Phil is a Senior Chemical Engineer at Barr Engineering Company with 12 years of environmental consulting experience focusing on air permitting and compliance for petroleum refineries, chemical manufacturing plants, and food production plants across the country. His work experience encompasses federal and state air quality permitting, regulatory applicability analyses, dispersion modeling, control equipment evaluations, regulatory agency negotiations, and reporting for air emissions inventories, greenhouse gases, and the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).
• Shantal Pai, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - Shantal is an associate attorney in Fredrikson’s Energy Group. She works as part of a team advising utilities, transmission companies and independent power producers on routing, siting, permitting and other regulatory matters before federal, state and local agencies.

Registration encouraged. Please note that the webinar will only be screened locally, and that registration does not get you access to the online webinar.

12-1:30pm: Screening of AWMA's webinar: The Impact of the New PM_2.5 NAAQS
1:30-2:30pm: Panel Discussion