Critique of the Meteorological and Air Quality Baseline Monitoring Program for the Prototype Oil Shale Leaseholds. Part A: Comments on the Approach Taken and Recommendations for a Continuing Program. Part B: Comments on the Data Acquisition and Management

摘要

In Part A of this report, it is contened that the meteorology and air quality baseline monitoring portion of the environmental protection program instituted at the prototype, federal oil shale leaseholds was an inappropriate response to the single, critical question: What will be the environmental impact if the extensive oil shale resources of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are developed to augment the nation's energy needs. With this pressing question sill unanswered, reasons are suggested why existing knowledge is inadequate to provide a valid answer. Furthermore, a means is proposed for accomplishing this important task within a suitable time-period and at a reasonable level of funding. In Part B, the probable cause of deficiences is identified in the meteorological and air quality data which were acquired over a two-year period on the federal oil shale leaseholds and are improved procedures for future data acquisition efforts are recommended. (ERA citation 04:044356)