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468 Monitoring Compliance Test and Source Test Observation

4 ½ day lecture course
4 CEUs

Student Materials:
Student Workbook (PDF 217 pp, 3,859 KB)
Stack testing (PDF 71 pp, 2,247 KB)
Federal Register (PDF 1 pp, 27 KB)
Federal Register Part 2 (PDF 200 pp, 14,576 KB)
Corrections (PDF 18 pp, 318 KB)

Course Description 
Since the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA of 1990), industrial sources have had to quantitate their emissions of Title III hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) inorder to demonstrate compliance with regulated emissions. To insure that the source test methods utilized to demonstrate compliance are performed according to EPA guidelines, both agency and industrial personnel will be required to observe stack tests to document that compliance with the methodology is being achieved. This will mean that an observer must be intimately familiar with over 30 or more stack test methods, each one with its own particular operation.

• Major topics

• Procedures and checklists to use when observing and certifying compliance source test methods
• Stack test basics [Federal Reference Methods (FRM) 1,2,3 and 4], FRM 5 for particulate matter, FRMs 6,7, and 8 for SO2, NOx, and sulfuric acid
• Information and guidance associated with EPA stack test methodologies for characterizing Title III HAPs from industrial sources.
• Standardized stack test methodology for sampling and analysis of HAPs as outlined in EPA's SW-846 Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste.
• EPA's stack test monitoring programs associated with PM10 (FRM 201/201A) and condensible particulate (FRM 202) monitoring
• Specific observer checklist will be demonstrated during the presentation for each test methodology as part of the source test observation package

Desired Background 
Engineering/scientific degree or one year work experience in source sampling. Successful completion of APTI 450 is recommended.