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A computer based decision support system for developing air pollution compliance strategies, entitled the Air Compliance Advisor (ACA), has been developed by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Laboratory (USACERL). The Microsoft Windows based ACA can benefit environmental personnel at U.S. DoD and industrial facilities, as well as air pollution regulators. The ACA incorporates many useful tools for considering issues related to facility wide emissions, control technologies, and regulations. While the ACA was designed to address the needs of the DoD in dealing with U.S. regulations, the ACA is also applicable to U.S. industry and regulators, as well as Canadian industry and regulators. As a means of demonstrating this point, the needs of the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy (MOEE) are considered in this paper and an evaluation of the potential applicability of the ACA to those needs is presented. The objectives of this paper are three fold. The first objective is to describe the ACA and the most recent improvements to the ACA. The second is to describe the needs of the MOEE in dealing with air pollution compliance. The third is to illustrate how the ACA can be used to meet the needs of the MOEE. |
