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El Dorado County Air Quality Management District (AQMD) and the Department of Transportation recommending the Board:
1) Acting as the AQMD Board of Directors, authorize the Air Pollution Control Officer to execute an amendment to Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 6907 increasing Targeted Airshed Grant funding by $11,959.75 for a new total of $994,643 and amending the scope for County Department of Transportation for the paving of previously unpaved roadways in the area of the County roadwork projects with no change to the term; and
2) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the amendment to MOU 6907 on behalf of the Department of Transportation.
FUNDING: Targeted Airshed Grant funding.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The federal Targeted Airshed Grant ("TAG") program assists local, state, and tribal air pollution control agencies with developing plans and conducting projects to reduce air pollution in non-attainment areas that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) determines are the top five most polluted areas relative to ozone, annual average fine particulate matter (PM2.5), or 24-hour PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The overall goal of the TAG Program is to reduce air pollution in the nation’s areas with the highest levels of ozone and PM2.5 ambient air concentrations.
The Sacramento Region Non Attainment Area (which includes all or part of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Yolo, and Solano counties) was designated as a Non Attainment Area for the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard ("NAAQS") in 2009. EPA has determined the region is among the top five most polluted areas in the U.S. relative to the 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS and is eligible for TAG funding. The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District ("SMAQMD"), El Dorado County Air Quality Management District ("AQMD"), Placer County Air Pollution Control District, and Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District joined together to apply f...
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