Review of the NARSTO Draft Report An Assessment of Tropospheric Ozone Pollution--A North American Perspective (2000) / Chapter Skim
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is a multinational public-private program to coordinate and enhance policy-relevant scientific research and assessment of tropospheric ozone behavior, with the central goal of determining workable, efficient, and effective strategies for ozone management in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In addition, NARSTO expects to have a critical role in informing future policy debates concerning the ambient ozone levels that can be achieved at costs that the public is willing to bear.
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At the request of NARSTO, this, the committee's first report, reviews a draft document prepared under NARSTO entitled: "An Assessment of Tropospheric Ozone Pollution: A North American Perspective" (referred to in this report as the NARSTO assessment document) .4 In approaching this task, the committee took into consideration the objectives of the NARSTO assessment document as described in its preface and appendix, as well as those presented in NARSTO's ~ 997 Strategic Execution Plan.
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Although emissions control strategies have reduced ambient ozone concentrations substantially below what they would have been without regulation, one gets the sense after reading the NARSTO assessment document that there is little prospect of meeting ozonecontrof goals through a continuation of current policies. Also, it does not offer any grounds for expecting that a system can be devised to more-effectively reduce ozone concentrations at acceptable costs by optimizing the control of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
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It could also identify the ambient data requirements to assess whether implemented emissions management strategies were actually having the predicted effects. The discussion in the NARSTO assessment document reviews current sourcecharacterization efforts and monitoring networks, but it does not address whether these are adequate to meet the needs of assuring compliance.
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Identifying Opportunities for Strengthening Ozone Management 5 The removal of systemic obstacles to rational ozone management could improve compliance and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of control programs though improved design. The NARSTO assessment document cannot be expected to resolve these difficulties, but it can and should identify them for future attention.
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