Final Agenda: Control and Performance Testing of Volatile
Organic Compounds and Hazardous Air Pollutants
Manufacturing Alliance of Connecticut Conference Center, 173
Interstate Lane, Waterbury, Connecticut, November 15, 2006
8:15 – Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Workshop Logistics; Distribute Short Pre-Survey - 5 minutes –
Roy Crystal, EPA Region I
9:05 a.m. - Current Problems and Opportunities – 15 minutes
 EPA and state stack testing
 common problems stack testing has shown with control equipment;
resulting enforcement
 recent and upcoming MACT standards and testing requirements
 future directions in EPA and state compliance monitoring
Roy Crystal, EPA
9:20 a.m. – Panel: Summary of State and Federal Stack Testing
Requirements - 45 minutes
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Connecticut VOC RACT Performance Testing Requirements – Roy
Crystal, EPA, or CT DEP speaker
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Connecticut Requirements for Stack Testing Notification, Operating
Procedures during Testing, and Submission of Test Reports Stephen Anderson, CT DEP
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Overview of Federal Regulatory Requirements for Stack Testing in
New Coating Air Toxics Standards and New Source Performance
Standards – Roy Crystal, EPA
10:05 a.m. – Common Problems and Proper Design, Operation &
Maintenance of VOC/HAP Add-on Controls (Ozidizers, Carbon Adsorbtion
units, Permanent Total Enclosures) – 30 minutes
Paul Murphy, CAAssociates
10:35 a.m. - Compliant Coatings and other Pollution Prevention (P2)
Opportunities in Coating Operations: do they Work and do they Save
Money? panel – 30 minutes –
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Web coating P2 issues - Rich Bizzozero, Massachusetts Office of
Technical Assistance (invited)
Case study of successful P2 at Vacumet Corp., Franklin, MA - Jack Hill,
Vacumet or Paul Murphy, CAAssociates
Information and Resources Available from EPA – Roy Crystal, EPA
11:05 a.m. - Break – 15 minutes
11:20 a.m. - “VOC Stack Testing 101” – 30 minutes
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explain basic physical principles
possibly demonstrate equipment used for sampling VOC/HAP emissions
include appropriate EPA methods such as Method 204 for capture
efficiency of Permanent Total Enclosures (PTE), Method 204a (VOC
content of liquid streams), 204b (gas streams), and/or Methods 25 and/or
25a
EPA lab or consultant stack testing expert
11:50 a.m. - Panel:“Preparing a Protocol, Conducting Stack Tests, and
Preparing Stack Test Reports: Best Practices and Common Problems” – 50
minutes
William Osbahr, EPA; Howard Schiff, TRC; Paul Murphy
(10-15 minutes each)
12:40 p.m. - Wrapup: How to Get more information; distribute evaluation
forms – 5 minutes –
Roy Crystal, EPA