Section NR 404.06 - Measurement of ambient air quality(1) APPLICABILITY. (a) The department and any person conducting ambient air quality monitoring on its behalf shall use only reference or equivalent methods as specified in sub. (2) or (3) for all ambient air quality monitoring for any air contaminant identified in s. NR 404.04. The ambient monitoring shall conform with the department's guidebooks, plans and procedures for air monitoring quality assurance.(b) Any person required by the department to conduct ambient air quality monitoring shall use only reference or equivalent methods for sampling and analysis as specified in sub. (2) or (3) and shall comply with quality assurance and quality control procedures and the data reporting format which are specified and approved by the department for the collection, analysis, processing and reporting of ambient air quality monitoring data.(c) Any person who voluntarily conducts ambient air quality monitoring in Wisconsin may request the department to determine that the data being collected are comparable to the air quality data collected under par. (a) or (b). The department may determine that the data are comparable if the voluntary ambient air quality monitoring and the data meet the requirements specified in par. (b). (d) The department may determine that air quality data submitted to the department for purposes of demonstrating compliance with existing regulations under chs. NR 400 to 499 or in support of a permit or permit application are unacceptable if such monitoring was not conducted in compliance with pars. (a) to (c). (2) REFERENCE METHODS. Ambient air quality monitoring which utilizes a reference monitoring method shall use monitoring methods which conform to the federal reference methods which are specified in 40 CFR part 50, Appendices A to N, incorporated by reference in s. NR 484.04(2), or which have been so designated by the department.(3) EQUIVALENT METHODS. (a) Ambient air quality monitoring which utilizes an equivalent monitoring method shall use monitoring methods which have been published by the department under sub. (4) (a).(b) The department may list a monitoring method as an equivalent method if the department determines that the method satisfies the same requirements for a federal equivalent method as specified in 40 CFR part 53, incorporated by reference in s. NR 484.03.(c) The department shall maintain a list of equivalent methods and shall send a copy of the list to any person upon request. A current copy of the list shall be available for inspection or copying at the department's headquarters office. Note: The department's headquarters office is located at 101 South Webster Street, Madison, Wisconsin. Mail requests should be addressed to the Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Air Management, PO Box 7921, Madison WI 53707.
(4) AIR QUALITY PUBLICATIONS. The department shall publish documents relating to air quality or to air monitoring, including the following:(a) The department shall publish or revise a list of equivalent monitoring methods as specified in sub. (3).(b) The department shall publish, revise and maintain quality assurance plans and guidebooks which describe the activities and procedures of the quality assurance and quality control systems.(c) The department shall publish reports on air quality and related information and data.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 404.06
Cr. Register, July, 1985, No. 355, eff. 8-1-85; renum. from NR 404.05, Register, September, 1986, No. 369, eff. 10-1-86; am. (2) and (3) (b), Register, May, 1992, No. 437, eff. 6-1-92; am. (1) (a), (2), (3) (b) and (4) (b), Register, December, 1995, No. 480, eff. 1-1-96; CR 03-066: am. (2) Register May 2005 No. 593, eff. 6-1-05.