Breaking Down the 

2023 USEPA Flare and Fenceline Monitoring Proposed Amendments 

October 24, 2023

10am - 2pm

Health and Safety Council Building

Pasadena, TX

You're Invited!

In April 2023 the USEPA proposed a wide-ranging suite of environmental regulatory amendments broadly applicable to hundreds of facilities within the USA chemicals industry.  The proposed rules affect 10 NESHAP/MACT subparts and 4 NSPS subparts with costly capital improvements and expensive monitoring programs being required.  

Spectrum's experts are presenting a free and unique workshop to highlight several critical areas within the proposed rulemaking - namely Flare instrumentation and Fenceline monitoring. Both of these topics are complex and will require significant planning and precise execution. 

With hundreds of flare systems reviewed and decades of ambient air program management, let the teams at Spectrum guide you through this maze. 

Meet the Presenters

Herman Holm, EIT

Director of Specialty Environmental Services - Flares

Herman has served as Spectrum’s Director of Specialty Environmental Services since 2017.  In that role, he oversees all aspects of day-to-day operations associated with Spectrum’s consulting group.  Prior to joining Spectrum, Herman has worked in environmental areas that have ranged from Title V air permitting, air compliance, NSPS and MACT compliance, and enforcement and Consent Decree support, due diligence, and soil and ground water investigation/remediation.  He has specialized in the monitoring, operation, and compliance of industrial flares for the last 10 years for the refining and petrochemical sectors in the United States and Italy.  Learn more about Herman's expertise. 

Brian Cochran

Director of Installed Systems

Brian serves as the Director of Installed Systems at Spectrum. His primary areas of focus are fenceline and ambient air monitoring, fugitive emissions monitoring, and air quality data analysis. He has wide-ranging experience in the design, operation, and management of ambient air monitoring networks, and has worked with an assortment of sampling equipment and monitoring instrumentation in measurement studies addressing air toxics, criteria pollutants, particulate matter (TSP, PM2.5, PM10), VOCs, H2S, methane, and benzene. He has developed novel measurement approaches to address fugitive emission sources, including authoring the testing protocol used by companies needing to meet Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) requirements for the quantification of uncollected VOC loading losses during marine vessel loading. He also has extensive involvement with EPA’s refinery fenceline monitoring program (U.S. EPA method 325), and has successfully worked with refineries on the development, submittal and approval of Site-Specific Monitoring Plans to account for the impact of offsite and near field sources on measured fenceline benzene concentrations. Learn more about Brian's expertise. 

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Who Should Attend?

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Can't Make It?

  Can't make it to this event? We'll come to you! Send an email to [email protected] to organize a site-specific gap assessment and presentation for your facility.   

See You Soon!