Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Manual (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering) [Hardcover]

Richard Trzupek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0071373349 | ISBN-13: 978-0071373340 | Edition: 1

Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Handbook provides a straightforward, easy-to-read, nonlegal explanation of the regulatory and technical concepts of air quality compliance, explaining how to effectively manage air compliance at a facility. Although the majority of the book is devoted to a wide general applicability, it also describes the actual permit submissions that are required under regulations (many of which end up being state requirements) and the technical and analytical approaches which are needed in preparing the information required in the permit applications. Useful topics include: Fundamental 1990 and previous Clean Air Act concepts, Permitting, Compliance Checklists and risk assessment methodologies.

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From the Back Cover

THE ONE-STOP, QUICK-AND-EASY GUIDE TO APPLYING FOR AND STAYING IN COMPLIANCE WITH AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS

Here is a job-simplifying resource that makes applying for and staying in compliance with the many complex air quality regulations a snap – at every stage of the process.

Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Manual offers thorough, straightforward, plain-English explanations of the regulatory and technical concepts of air quality compliance. But author doesn’t stop there -- he goes on to explain the actual permit submissions required under regulation and the technical and analytical approaches necessary when preparing the information included in the permit application.

Written by an expert with almost two decades’ experience in the field, Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Manual offers a complete package of compliance tools:
* Easy-to-follow checklists
* A glossary of terms
* A listing of outside resources
* Permitting examples

You’ll also find an eye-opening discussion of 1990 Clean Air Act concepts. In short, everything you effectively need to manage air compliance at a facility.

If you want to understand air quality regulations – not just barely comply – this is the resource for you.

About the Author

Richard Trzupek is a partner and Air Quality Manager at Huff & Huff, Inc. Mr. Trzupek has been involved in the air quality field since 1982. He has worked with a wide variety of industries, including the petro-chemical, utility, steel, graphic arts, metal finishing, synthetic organic chemical, consumer products, automobile and food processing industries.

He has served as an expert witness for a variety of testing and permitting issues, as well as providing other types of litigation support. His consulting experience not only includes air pollution, but involves analyzing the business, community and environmental concerns inherent to industrial projects. Mr. Trzupek is frequently called into projects during the conceptual stage to provide strategic advice and to facilitate communication between stakeholders.

He has testified before the Illinois Pollution Control Board and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. He has participated in the development of environmental rules, including: Illinois' VOM trading program, Illinois' Nox SIP rules, USEPA's air toxics program and the South Coast Air Quality Management District's VOM emissions progam. He has also testified as an expert witness in environmental litigation and is a guest lecturer for Loyola Law School's Environmental Law program for the past four years.

Mr. Trzupek developed techniques used to measure emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants from steel mill coke ovens. He was also the project manager for a research program used to develop new measurement techniques for the determination of Volatile Organic Compounds: USEPA's Method 204 series.

He has been a frequent speaker for organizations such as USEPA's Emission Measurement Technical Information Center, the Air & Waste Management Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Midwest Cogeneration Association and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. He is also the past Director of Air Quality for the Lake Michigan States Section of the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA).

He has been a frequent contributor to a number of publications and also writes a weekly newspaper column for Examiner Publications in the Chicago suburbs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 671 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (October 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071373349
• ISBN-13: 978-0071373340
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Made Sense of It All, May 22, 2004

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This review is from: Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Manual (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering) (Hardcover)

This is a terrific, clear explanation of air pollution rules. As a plant manager, I got more useful information from this book than I got in five years of paying attorneys and consultants. It's an easy read and it's easy to find the information you need. In the 700 pages (not 1,500 like somebody else said) Mr. Trzupek makes sense of all of the rules that nobody can understand, gives you weapons to fight with and provides a bunch of resources to use. This is a book I can actually use.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth It, March 13, 2003

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This review is from: Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Manual (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering) (Hardcover)

Three hundred pages of generalities, very little specific. 1200 pages of appendix. The book was over price, considering it is really nothing more than a dictionary of air quality compliance and permitting. The chapters and topics over and over suggest the topic at hand is complicated and changing and to variable to go into specifics. For 90 dollars and 1500 pages I want to know specifics for different processes, at different levels, in different regions, in different states. On page three he suggests that if you are looking for a book that covers every possible contingency this book is not for you...he is correct...yet the book should be renamed to 'If You Are In Business, You Can't Afford Not To Hire Someone That Can Understand Air-Quality Compliance...But Not Write A Comprehensive Text On The Subject in 1500 Pages or Less".