EPA Science Board Forms Panels For Air Health Benefits, Rural Monitoring

EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) has formed its new panel to examine the agency’s BenMap tool, used to determine the projected health benefits that are key to justifying major air rules, and is in the process of forming another group to probe EPA’s CASTNET rural air monitoring system. In a Sept. 21 memo , SAB announced the creation of the BenMAP and Benefits Methods Panel that will review the BenMap model. The model is “an open-source computer program that calculates...