Click
Here to view EPA comments
on the Early Action Compact - edits/comments are reflected
in current final version document.
Click
Here to view the PowerPoint program from the Air Quality
Committee meeting of 12-04-02
EPA Region 6 approved the Protocol for Early Action Compacts
(EAC Protocol) on June 19, 2002. It establishes a two-step
process that offers a more expeditious time line for achieving
clean air than EPA's expected 8-hour implementation rulemaking.
The EAC Protocol allows a region to enter into a memorandum
of agreement (MOA) by December 31, 2002, committing to develop
and implement a detailed technical plan to reach attainment
by 2007. The Tulsa Area Early Action Compact was signed
by EPA officials 12-23-02. The principles of the EAC to
be executed by Local, State and EPA officials are:
1. Early planning, implementation, and emissions reductions
leading to expeditious attainment and maintenance of the
8-hour ozone standard;
2. Local control of the measures to be employed, with broad-based
public input;
3. State support to ensure technical integrity of the EAC;
4. Formal incorporation of the EAC into the SIP;
5. Deferral of the effective date of nonattainment designation
and related requirements so long as all EAC terms and milestones
are met;
and
6. Safeguards to return areas to traditional SIP requirements
should terms and/or milestones be unfulfilled, with appropriate
credit given for emission reduction measures implemented.
To download the entire FINAL Signed Tulsa Area Ozone Early
Action Compact, Click Here. You
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you do not have it, you can download it FREE,
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