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IN SB0014
Bill
Status
1/6/2015
Primary Sponsor
Lonnie Randolph
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AI Summary
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Authorizes counties, cities, and towns to establish or designate a local air pollution control agency to enforce local air pollution ordinances.
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Requires the Department of Environmental Management commissioner to contract with willing local air pollution control agencies to undertake air pollution monitoring, permitting, inspections, and enforcement activities.
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Mandates contracts specify that the department must advise, cooperate with, and provide technical assistance to local air pollution control agencies.
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Requires compensation to local air pollution control agencies be at least sufficient to cover staffing and operating costs, adjusted annually according to the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
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Identifies funding sources for compensation including EPA federal grants under Clean Air Act Sections 103 and 105, annual operating fees, the environmental management special fund, and other governor-approved sources.
Legislative Description
Local air pollution control agency contracts. Local air pollution control agency contracts. Authorizes a county, city, or town to establish or designate an agency to act for the county, city, or town as a local air pollution control agency. Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental management to enter into a contract with a county, city, or town air pollution control agency that is willing to enter into the contract. Provides that a contract between the department and a county, city, or town air pollution control agency must: (1) require the department to advise, cooperate with, and provide technical
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
1/6/2015