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Purpose of Oil Pollution Prevention regulation
What is the purpose of the Oil Pollution Prevention regulation? When oil spills into navigable waters or onto adjoining shorelines, it can have harmful impacts on the environment, human health, and economic activity. EPA issued the Oil Pollution Prevention regulation to prevent oil spills and to assure that oil facility…
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How Can I Reduce the Time Needed to Run the Nonroad Emission Factor Post-Processing Scripts?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Very long run times are not unusual for Nonroad emission factor post-processing scripts, particularly with a large output database. To reduce script run time, we recommend doing the following: Reduce the size of your output database by choosing just the…
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Does EPA’s announcement of June 18, 2010 modify the Lead Renovation Repair and Painting Rule’s requirements that contractors use lead-safe work practices when working in pre-1978 housing or child-occupied facilities?
Answer: This announcement does not change the requirement that all contractors take steps to protect children and families from the dangers of lead poisoning by becoming certified and following the work practice standards and the associated recordkeeping requirements. As of April 22, 2010 all contractors have been required to be…
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How does the June 18, 2010 announcement impact renovators in states that have adopted their own RRP programs?
Answer: If you work in a state authorized by EPA to run their own renovation program, you should contact them for information on their certification requirements. If you work in a state where EPA administers the renovation program your firm needs to be certified by EPA. Please refer to the…
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Thousands of renovators are already trained and their firms are EPA certified. Will EPA enforce against renovators who did not receive their training certification before December 31, 2010?
It is most important that all contractors follow the RRP work practice standards. However, EPA is providing additional time for renovation firms and workers to obtain the necessary training and certifications before the enforcement of the firm certification and individual renovator requirements begins. Therefore, renovators who have not been able…
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How Do I get Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e) Results for Nonroad Equipment?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . CO2e is simply the combination of the pollutants that contribute to climate change adjusted using their global warming potential. This can be done manually summing the mass of the pollutants multiplied by their global warming potential factors. These are the…
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How Do I Get Emission Factors or Inventory Totals for Nonroad Equipment Aggregated by the Various Categories used by MOVES?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . We have included a set of post-processing scripts that take the results of a Nonroad run and generate other output options. These scripts are all available in the MOVES graphical user interface in the Post Processing pull-down menu under “Run…
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How Can I Incorporate Local Data Into My MOVES-Nonroad Run?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . We recommend not modifying the internal tables of the MOVES-Nonroad model to incorporate local data, as this can lead to unintended consequences. Instead, you can apply local activity and population data by: Executing a nonroad run in Inventory mode for…
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Does the June 18, 2010, announcement mean that EPA will not enforce certification and training requirements until after October 1, 2010, for firms and December 31, 2010, for renovators?
Answer: EPA is not stopping its enforcement against any renovation firms and individual renovators who do not comply with requirements of work practice standards and associated recordkeeping requirements. However, EPA is providing additional time for renovation firms and workers to obtain the necessary training and certifications before enforcement of the…
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Can N2O (nitrous oxide) Emissions be Estimated in the MOVES Nonroad Model?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Nitrous oxide (N2O) results is not an option you can select for nonroad equipment in MOVES.
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Who would be liable for the fine if a state or local government that was not a certified firm hired a contractor that was not certified?
Answer: The hired firm would be in violation of the Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule if it was uncertified and performing a covered renovation. Question Number: 23002-24814 Find a printable PDF copy of all frequent questions pertaining to lead .
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SPCC Training Materials for Production Sector
Does EPA offer any Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) training materials specifically for the production sector? Yes. EPA has developed a “train-the-trainer” presentation for the production sector. The presentation provides information for organizations to hold trainings on the SPCC rule. The presentation is available in the SPCC Rule: Train-the-Trainer…
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Why in my Nonroad Results do I Have a fuelTypeID not Listed in the FuelType Table?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The fuel types used by the nonroad part of MOVES is not located in the FuelType table. If you look in the NRFuelType table you will see that 23 is for nonroad diesel fuel and 24 is for marine diesel…
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How can I Install the NONROAD Model?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . EPA no longer supports the stand-alone FORTRAN version of the NONROAD model. It likely would need to be recompiled for use in current versions of the Windows operating system. Instead, EPA has included Nonroad equipment estimates in our current MOVES…
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