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  • Criteria for oil production facilities to be qualified facilities

    Qualified facilities are eligible for streamlined regulatory requirements in 40 CFR §112.6, which include self-certification of SPCC Plans. What criteria do oil production facilities have to meet in order to be considered qualified facilities? Oil production facilities, like all other facilities, must meet the criteria in §112.3(g)(1) or (2) to…

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  • Can MOVES Report Output in Terms of Fuel Consumption?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Although gallons of fuel consumed are not reported by MOVES, the factors used to convert total energy consumption (a MOVES reporting option) to gallons of fuel are contained in the FuelSubtype table (energy content, reported in kilojoules per gram of…

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  • How do I use MOVES at Project Scale?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The MOVES model can estimate emissions at national, county or project scale. Project scale is useful for estimating an individual transportation project like an intersection or transit project, but it requires detailed inputs that describing the vehicle population and activity…

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  • Do settlement communications, such as past “agreements in principle,” impact the implementation of the final Consent Decrees?

    The parties are bound by the terms of the various final, publicly available consent decrees. These consent decrees were made available for public comment before they were finalized and entered by the Court. Past settlement communications and documents created in the course of settlement discussions have been incorporated (or not)…

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  • What is the Confidentiality Order?

    The Confidentiality Order (Order) is a court order entered by the Federal District Court for the District of Montana (Court) on August 8, 2002, and amended by the Court on December 31, 2003, that applies to Superfund settlement negotiations in the Clark Fork River Basin, including the following sites: Silver…

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  • How does EPA ensure that the potentially responsible parties complete their work?

    All cleanup activities performed by the PRPs are subject to enforcement instruments (i.e., consent decrees or administrative orders) that provide for EPA approval of all deliverables and oversight of all work performed by the PRPs.

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  • How Can I Determine the Effect of Speed on Vehicle Emissions?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . MOVES can be run in either “Inventory” or “Emission Rates” mode. With Emission Rates, MOVES reports emission rates for the 16 average speed bins used by MOVES for each hour of the day and additional emission rate output that may…

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  • Does MOVES Incorporate Anticipated Improvements in VOC Emission Factors Resulting from Improved Fuel Economy?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Changes in fuel consumption affect VOC emissions by reducing refueling vapor losses and spillage. Other emissions (such as sulfates) are also affected by fuel consumption. MOVES incorporates changes due to fuel economy requirements that were finalized as of the date…

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  • Why is the Confidentiality Order important?

    The Confidentiality Order (Order) has been, and continues to be, effective in assisting the parties in reaching settlements under the framework established by the Court in US v. ARCO and still pending in court – six consent decrees to date have been entered since the Order was issued. There are…

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  • Can I use MOVES to Model Emissions from Vehicles in other Countries?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The MOVES model was designed specifically to model the emissions from vehicles and equipment designed to meet emission standards in the United States. There are considerable challenges to adapting the MOVES framework to other nations, primarily around the need for…

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  • How can I run MOVES3 for the entire U.S or for an entire year?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The most accurate national MOVES runs are done for every county and hour and then averaged together in the output, but, depending on your intended use of the results, it’s also possible to pre-aggregate the MOVES inputs to run the…

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  • SPCC compliance dates for farms

    What are the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) compliance dates for farms? On November 22, 2011, EPA amended the date by which certain farms must prepare, or amend, and implement their SPCC Plans to May 10, 2013 to comply with SPCC rule amendments promulgated since July 2002 ( 76…

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  • Why were the consent decree negotiations under a confidentiality order?

    The confidentiality order was issued by the federal district court in 2002 to encourage and facilitate settlement negotiations. The court determined that the confidentially order was appropriate to ensure that the parties were afforded the opportunity to engage in frank, open discussion so that litigation could be settled promptly and…

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  • What are the features available on the MOVES “Advanced Features” panel, and when would I use them?

    The MOVES graphical user interface (GUI) includes a panel for “Advanced Features,” which allows modelers to edit RunSpec inputs for preaggregation options and select input databases created by MOVES tools. The panel also includes some options that are obsolete or intended only for MOVES testing and development work. Each of…

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  • Can I model emissions from Electric, Fuel-Cell, and Hybrid Vehicles and Equipment in MOVES?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Electric vehicles and equipment do not generate tailpipe or evaporative emissions like conventional vehicles. However, these vehicles do consume energy, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, and they generate brake and tire particulate matter (PM) emissions. MOVES includes electricity as a…

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