| The Air Benefit and Cost Group (ABCG) develops and applies methodologies
for estimating the costs of air pollution regulations. Products
include cost methodology manuals, spreadsheets for estimating costs,
national databases of emission control measures, and other useful
information related to air pollution control costs. Provided below
are the cost-related models and tools maintained by ABCG. Click
on the model/tool of interest and you will be taken to a separate
page where a detailed description and downloadable files can be
found.
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File Description |
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EPA
Air Pollution Control Cost Manual – provides up-to-date
information on point source and stationary area source air pollution
controls for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate
matter (PM), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), and some acid gases (primarily
SO2 and HCl); includes guidance for the development of accurate
and consistent costs for air pollution control devices. |
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AirControlNET - a PC-based
program that provides estimates of emission reductions and costs
for control strategies applied at various geographic levels
(national, regional, local) and for various types of emission
sources (point, area, mobile, nonroad). |
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Air Compliance Advisor – is a
PC-based program to supplement EPA’s Air Pollution Control
Cost Manual; user inputs specific information about a pollution
source to derive pre-control levels of pollution for VOCs, NOx,
PM, and SO2 and can perform dynamic "what-if" analyses
to rapidly develop creative strategies for pollution control. |
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Control Strategy Tool (CoST) – is a client-server system and is part of EPA's Emissions Modeling Framework (EMF). The purpose of EPA’s Control Strategy Tool (CoST) is to model the emission reductions and engineering costs associated with control strategies applied to point, area, and mobile sources of air pollutant emissions to support the analyses of air pollution policies and regulations. The Control Strategy Tool was developed as a replacement for the AirControlNET (ACN) software tool. |
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Other Cost Spreadsheets/Indices
- Due to changes in the data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards no longer supports the Vatavuk Air Pollution Control Cost Indexes (VAPCCI). Other good indexes are readily available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and from a variety of private sources. We invite you to investigate these alternative measures, all of which produce reliable results. This decision effects our support for the CO$T-AIR spreadsheets, as well and the EPA will no longer update these files. However, OAQPS invites you to download and use the Air Compliance Advisor (see link above). The ACA fully incorporates the functions performed by the CO$T-AIR spreadsheets and is maintained by EPA to ensure the latest prices and equations are being used. |
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