Executive Budget Operating Performance Measures
Mission
The Division of Air Quality’s mission is to protect and improve today’s air quality and preserve it for future generations.
Operations
- Monitors ambient air and collects, analyzes, and summarizes air quality data from a comprehensive statewide network.
- Operates a laboratory to analyze air samples, including a plasma/mass spectrometer for particulate metals analysis and a clean room/weigh room for PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter) filters.
- Submits quality assured air quality data to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency national data collection system.
- Performs continuous emission monitoring audits of the federal Title IV acid rain program at coal-fired power plants.
- Conducts inspections and investigations of air pollution sources, addresses citizen complaints involving alleged air pollution violations, and inspects asbestos demolition and renovation projects.
- Processes initial and renewal operating permit applications for major air emission facilities in accordance with Title V of the Federal Clean Air Act.
- Processes major and minor source preconstruction permit applications.
- Develops and revises state implementation plans to attain the Clean Air Act’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards, enabling West Virginia to maintain federal funding and remain free of U. S. EPA sanctions.
- Provides free confidential assistance to the state’s eligible small businesses on air quality issues and regulatory compliance through the Small Business Assistance Program.
- Evaluates risk assessments and air modeling analyses of sources as required by applicable state rules and federal regulations.
- Compiles calendar year inventories of air pollutant emissions from West Virginia’s large industrial sources.
- Develops and coordinates public awareness of air quality issues and education outreach programs.
Goals/Objectives/Performance Measures
| Fiscal Year |
Actual
2014
|
Actual
2015
|
Estimated
2016
|
Actual
2016
|
Estimated
2017
|
Estimated
2018
|
|
Collect criteria pollutant data at operating air monitoring sites and capture at least 75% of the data as required by U. S. EPA.
|
| Data recovery rate |
97%
|
96%
|
75%
|
98%
|
75%
|
75%
|
|
Respond to all air pollution-related complaints within an average of 30 days.
|
| Average days open per complaint |
7.45
|
8.24
|
15.00
|
6.81
|
15.00
|
15.00
|
| Complaints filed |
576 |
546 |
600 |
583 |
600 |
600 |
| Perform inspections for all Title V (major) sources biennially and every five years for Synthetic Minor sources. |
| Fiscal Year |
Title V Inspections |
Synthetic Minor Inspections |
| Targeted |
Performed |
Targeted |
Performed |
| Actual 2014 |
80 |
97 |
2 |
34 |
| Actual 2015 |
85 |
78 |
1 |
54 |
| Estimated 2016 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| Actual 2016 |
87 |
87 |
4 |
47 |
| Estimated 2017 |
73 |
-- |
4 |
-- |
| Estimated 2018 |
87 |
-- |
4 |
-- |
|
Maintain a Statewide air monitoring network, and report the Air Quality Index (AQI) of up to nine sites using U. S. EPA formulas, working to achieve a good to moderate range AQI at least 98 percent of the time (as derived from U. S. EPA's Air Quality System database).
|
| AQI percentage in the good to moderate range |
99.9%
|
99.9%
|
98.0%
|
99.8%
|
98.0%
|
98.0%
|
|
Take final action on all preconstruction permit applications within 90 days of receipt of each completed application.
|
| Final action taken within the time frame |
77%
|
68%
|
80%
|
66%
|
80%
|
70%
|
| Final actions taken |
151 |
132 |
125 |
116 |
100 |
100 |
|
Take final action on all general permit registration applications within 45 days of receipt of each complete application.
|
| Final action taken within the time frame |
80.0%
|
93.0%
|
85.0%
|
90.5%
|
80.0%
|
90.0%
|
| Final actions taken |
260 |
270 |
130 |
188 |
150 |
150 |
|
Issue all Title V operating permit renewals within 12 months of receipt of each complete application.
|
| Permits issued within time frame |
95.0%
|
83.0%
|
85.0%
|
87.0%
|
80.0%
|
85.0%
|
| Final actions taken |
22 |
18 |
25 |
31 |
45 |
27 |
|
Compile annual inventories of air pollutant emissions from 95 percent of West Virginia's large industrial sources (major Title V sources -- 160 facilities in FY 2016).
|
| Percent of facilities emission inventories complete |
100.0%
|
100.0%
|
95.0%
|
100.0%
|
95.0%
|
95.0%
|
Programs
Non Title V—(Base Air Management Program)
This program administers a statewide air quality management program for nonmajor facilities to protect the health and welfare of the public and the environment. This includes permitting, enforcement, compliance, and ambient monitoring.
Title V—Operating Permit Program (Major Facilities)
This program incorporates and details all applicable federal and state air quality requirements in a single document for each major Title V facility and assures compliance with those requirements. It provides a clear program through scheduling for compliance, monitoring, and reporting and provides compliance assistance for small business sources subject to regulations of Title V of the Clean Air Act.