HomeMy WebLinkAboutAQ ResolutionWHEREAS, the federal Clean Air Act, through the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), establishes air quality standards to protect public health and welfare; and
WHEREAS, the Fayetteville Metropolitan Area Air Quality Stakeholders Committee
has acknowledged the importance of these standards in promoting quality of life, economic
development, and future healthy development; and
WHEREAS, the Fayetteville Metropolitan Area Air Quality Stakeholders Committee
will strive to maintain at or below the Federal ozone standard as set annually by the EPA; and
WHEREAS, in 2003, the Air Quality Stakeholders Committee was created to
proactively improve air quality for the citizens in the Fayetteville Metropolitan Area and its
participating local governments; and
WHEREAS, EPA, in conjunction with state governments, business, industry, and
environmental interest, has developed an option known as an “Ozone Advance Program”,
through which an area, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Environmental
Quality (NC DEQ) and EPA, can voluntarily improve conditions through strategies developed
through an Action Plan to help avoid a designation of non-attainment; and
WHEREAS, the benefits of participating in an Ozone Advance Program include: clean
air sooner, potentially avoiding non-attainment designation; preference during EPA federal grant
allocations; flexibility to achieve standards in cost effective ways; development of local
standards in partnership with stakeholders and the state, and other benefits;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE FAYETTEVILLE
METROPOLITAN AREA AIR QUALITY STAKEHOLDERS
COMMITTEE, that the Committee fully supports the Ozone Advance Program as approved
by the Fayetteville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Policy Board and
will participate in the development and implementation of an Action Plan, which will reduce
ground-level ozone concentrations in preparation for the upcoming ozone standard.