Recently, EPA discovered a problem with the dates in the program records of numerous units. These dates provide information as to when:- A unit becomes affected by the program (Unit Monitor Certification Begin Date or UMCBD)
- A unit must begin reporting hourly emissions data for the program (Emissions Recording Begin Date or ERBD)
- A unit's emissions begin counting toward compliance (Unit Monitor Certification Deadline or UMCD).
Because the dates in many unit program records were incorrect, the begin dates in many records in previously submitted monitoring plans are also incorrect. Therefore, it will be necessary to validate and, if necessary, correct the begin dates in all monitoring plans affected by the program date corrections.
The corrected program dates will be automatically downloaded into the Client Tool the first time you log in to the EPA Host System. To determine if any of your monitoring plans are affected by these corrections and need to be resubmitted, view the Submission Access Report.
Prior to fixing the begin dates in your monitoring plan, you will need to update to the Client Tool software using the Update Service located under the EPA Host menu.
After you have updated your software, please re-evaluate the affected monitoring plans. If any of your begin dates are incorrect, you will receive errors on the evaluation. Typical errors that may be found in the evaluation report include METHOD-14-C, PROGRAM-2-B, PROGRAM-3-B, PROGRAM-5-B, and PROGRAM-6-B.
To help you correct these errors, you can view the dates in your program records in the monitoring plan printout and the unit characteristics tab in the monitoring plan section of the Client Tool. If you believe any of the dates in the program records are incorrect, please contact technical support.
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2 Comments:
It would be helpful if the location of the dates were explained and what the correct dates should be. For example, the NBP date was 5/30/2004 in the Client Tool and the update corrects it to 5/1/2003. The dates are located in the Method Tab and should be corrected there. I still have an error; however, and am still trying to figure out what date and where needs to be corrected.
I would suggest taking a look at some of the online tutorials which explain the unit data, including how to view it, and how to update monitoring plan dates. The complete set of ECMPS tutorials can be seen on the tutorials page which includes both the ECMPS Monitoring Plan Unit Characteristics and ECMPS Monitoring Plan Corrections, Part 1: Correcting Dates tutorials.
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