UFP Advisory Meeting August 2022

3. Indoor air quality report and aircraft impacts in schools 3. Short term health effects of UFP 4. Mobile monitoring update and site selection process 5. Discussion 6. Wrap up Timothy Gould Dr. Edmund Seto Dr. Elena Austin Nancy Carmona Anna HarringtonJeff ShiraiDr. Timothy Larson Mariah Dittmore Dr. Magali Blanco Group Introductions and Updates UFP Advisory Meeting Updates • EPA community air monitoring grant opportunity in Spring 2022 – PSCAA – Community applications • EPA proposal to align US emissions standards with ICAO PM standards – Testimony by may UFP advisory group members • 2019 Puget Sound UFP monitoring study (Dr. Lianne Sheppard) published Healthy Schools, Healthy Air • Inform schools, districts and state legislators on the current ability of building ventilation systems to effectively remove outdoor sources of particles. • Quantify the current ability of ventilation solutions to remove indoor generated particles. • Identify any additional benefit and cost of in-room filtration. • Based on the experimental measures in an unoccupied classroom, describe the size fractioned infiltration rates of 1) ultrafine particles of aircraft origin 2) ultrafine particles of traffic origin and 3) wildfire smoke. • Communicate study results to partners. * Funded (50k) by cities of the cities of SeaTac, Burien, Federal Way, Normandy Park and Des Moines and by the State of Washington Study Methods Methodology – Phase I • Recruited 5 schools across 2 participating school districts • Sampled at each location twice. Each session lasted 48 hours. • Measured air exchange rate and infiltration before…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]