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	Ricardo Flores</h1>
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	Senior GHG Management and Air Quality Consultant</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><img alt="" src="~url~/uploads/image/ricardo_flores.jpg" style="margin: 40px 0px 20px" /></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Experience &amp; Education</span></strong></p><p>Ricardo Flores has over 13 years of experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality permitting, registration, and compliance. He&nbsp;offers expertise&nbsp;in United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandatory reporting of GHGs.&nbsp;</p><p>He has managed preparation of GHG emission inventories and regulatory compliance assessment reports for&nbsp;U.S. EPA and&nbsp;CARB GHG emissions mandatory reporting regulations&nbsp;for various sectors. He has worked for over 10 Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM) facilities, from data gathering, emission calculations, reporting to the SCAQMD and tracking the consumption of allocated credits for a given year against their emissions. He has permitted a number of different emission sources which include the calculation of criteria and toxic air contaminants and evaluation against all applicable federal, state, and local regulations. His extensive experience includes preparation of SCAQMD Annual Emissions Inventory Reports and Assembly Bill (AB) 2588&mdash;Air Toxics Hot Spots Information and Assessment Act Inventory Reports, auditing of a variety of facilities for compliance with all pertinent regulations, and preparation of permit and renewal applications for manufacturing and process facilities including Title V facilities. He has worked on criteria pollutants modeling using AERMOD to demonstrate compliance with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS); conformance evaluation for the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant (NESHAP) and Source Emission Standard (NSPS) requirements, and preparation of Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Form R. Additionally, he has permitted a biosolids processing facility converting sludge to a usable alternative fuel. He has been involved with developing compliance plans for a variety of facilities for In-use Off-Road Diesel regulation, Municipality On-road Heavy-duty Diesel-fueled Vehicles regulation, Large Spark-Ignition (LSI) Engine Fleet regulation, fleet subject to the Surplus Off-Road Opt-In for NOx (SOON) Program, Airborne Toxic Control Measure for Commercial Harbor Craft, Cargo Handling regulation, and the Portable Air Toxics Control Measure. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University&mdash;Pomona, California.</p><p><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Affiliations</strong></span></p>
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		Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)</li>
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<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Certifications &amp; Trainings</strong></span></p>
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		California Air Resources Board (CARB) Accredited Greenhouse Gas Verifier&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
		(Executive Order H-10-046)</li>
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		CARB Certified Visible Emissions Evaluator</li>
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		SCAQMD Certified Permitting Professional (CPP)<br />
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