Ron Evans/RTP/USEPA/US  

05/29/2007 05:50 PM	





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RJohansson@omb.eop.gov

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Marjorie Jones/RTP/USEPA/US

Subject

interagency discussion for 5/30 on ozone RIA









Rob, here is the plan for tomorrow's call.  We did not complete the
analysis of the CA costs and benefits in time to brief our management,
we will have to defer that to a later time.  Thus, tomorrow's call can
serve two functions:  1) go over our responses to your several questions
which you sent on 5/18 (see enclosed file) and 2) address other
questions which you may have.  There are a few other issues which I
would like to share with your group tomorrow:

1)  Mitch Baer of DOE had previously suggested getting the data
underlying the control strategy analysis.  During a telephone discussion
last week, he suggested it would be much more helpful to have a detailed
overview presentation of how we do our analysis from emissions
inventories thru control strategy development, air quality modeling and
the use of the these results in the development of the cost and benefits
analysis.  He offered to come to RTP to take advantage of presentations
by our experts sometime after the proposal is issued.  I have checked
with both Lydia Wegman and Richard Wayland and they concur this would be
a useful idea.  I would like to offer the opportunity for others on this
review committee to join Mitch in this exercise.  I will be happy to
coordinate further with you to make this happen.

2)  In the last briefing, Margo Schwab indicated a concern with our
presentation of the PM co-benefits.  We are changing the presentation to
include just the Pope and the range of the experts from the expert
elicitation (thus deleting any numbers based on Laden).  We will have a
few revised briefing charts to share tomorrow with the new approach.

3)  We are continuing to work on chapters.  I will provide an update for
delivery tomorrow.  I share your frustration in the lateness of the hour
in the process but I hope that the clarity and conciseness of the
presentation of this RIA versus the much larger PM NAAQS RIA will be
worth the wait and significantly decrease your review time.

