Reporting Services
Stay Ahead with Expert Reporting Support
Our reporting team ensures you stay up to date with the latest Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, requirements, and reporting methods. We offer assistance with Electronic Data Reports (EDRs), Permit Compliance Reports, Data Review, Low Mass Emitting (LME) units, and more, providing you with peace of mind. Learn about some of the advantages outsourcing reporting can provide.
For additional support, visit our Regulatory Services page to learn how we can assist with Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) Plans, Monitoring Plans, CEM and DAS audits, and training.
Electronic Data Reports (EDRs)
Our team of reporting experts provides end-to-end support for your emissions data reporting needs. By remotely accessing your data, we generate Emissions Data Reports (EDRs), clean and troubleshoot errors, and prepare files for seamless submission to the EPA through the Emissions Control Monitoring Plan System (ECMPS).
We proactively identify and notify you of potential issues, such as maximum load exceedances or Maximum Potential Concentration (MPC) limits, ensuring you’re always prepared for compliance.
Comprehensive Reporting Services
Additionally, our team handles all quarterly and annual Quality Assurance (QA) and Quarterly Certification (QC) Test data entry in our industry-leading DAS StackVision to meet Part 75 reporting requirements. We also ensure the accuracy of your Part 75 test data by verifying it through QA Certification EDRs in ECMPS.
QA Certification Test Data Entry Includes:
| Relative Accuracy Test Audit (RATA) | Air Emissions Testing Body (AETB) |
| Protocol Gas Verification Program (PGVP) | Linearity |
| Flow-to-Load | Fuel Flowmeter Accuracy |
| Fuel Flow-to-Load | Orifice Plate Inspections |
| Transmitter / Transducer Tests | Appendix E NOx Correlation Tests |
| Cycle Time Tests | Offline Calibration Demonstration |
| QA Certification Events | Extension / Exemption data |
| Annual Span and Range Check (per 40 CFR 75 Appendix A) | CO2 Control Chart |
Permit Compliance Reports
Our reporting team remotely accesses your system to review data for exceedances, downtime, and troubleshoot errors. We generate the required quarterly reports for permit compliance, making them readily available in StackVision and Prism.
If you’re subject to PADEP Revision 8, ESC Spectrum can expertly prepare and verify your Rev. 8 Emissions EDRs in PADEP CEMDPS, ensuring accurate and timely submissions.
Prism Reports
| Excess Emissions | Startup Shutdown |
| Downtime Incidents | Downtime Summary |
| Calibration Detail | CEMS Log |
| Qualified Average | One Minute Data |
| Calibration Detail | Data Review |
| Specialized Permit Reports | …and more |
StackVision Reports
| Exceedance Events | Exceedance Events Duration |
| Downtime Events Duration | Downtime Events Duration |
| Performance Summary | 30-Day Rolling Average Detail |
| Operating Time Duration | Opacity Matrix |
| Removal Status | Startup Shutdown Incident |
| Periodic Monitor Availability | …and more |
Data Review Services
ESC Spectrum’s knowledgeable Reporting analysts will check your system, weekly or monthly, to ensure proper and accurate data collection. They alert you to any problems and eliminate any risk of missing data to keep you in compliance.
- Ensure hourly data is collected (polled)
- Inspect hourly data values for missing data, outliers, anomalies, and data flags
- Check calibration data
- Verify ProcessNow data processing completed successfully
- Review alarms
- Periodically validate Emissions and QA EDR in ECMPS
- Troubleshoot issues identified during review
- Alerts company staff to issues that require additional attention
Low Mass Emitting (LME) Services
40 CFR Part 75.19 provides an alternative monitoring methodology for certain qualifying oil- and gas-fired units to estimate SO2, CO2, and/or NOx emissions input in lieu of a CEMS. Units may qualify for the Low Mass Emissions (LME) methodology.
LME Reporting
LME plans are required to report for emissions and QA. In April 2023, the EPA announced that ECMPS 2.0 will not support LME file creation. They stated, “ECMPS 2.0 will no longer include the ability to prepare LME emissions files. Affected LME users will need to explore other options outside ECMPS for preparing quarterly emissions files.” The ESC Spectrum Team is standing by to assist with current ECMPS and ECMPS 2.0 LME reporting.
LME Conversions
Changing an existing unit in the Acid Rain Program to be classified as LME can only occur at the year’s end – the new status began on January 1, 2024. Plants must have submitted the paperwork for this classification change before mid-November. The ESC Spectrum team can help review facility data to determine if changing to an LME makes sense.
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Benefits of Upgrading Your Data Acquisition System (DAS)
In today’s regulatory landscape, ensuring air emissions compliance is crucial. A reliable and robust Data Acquisition System (DAS) plays a pivotal role a Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS). Upgrading your DAS offers numerous benefits, read more to explore the advantages of upgrading and what you can expect from the DAS changeout process.