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I Lane Council of Governments, as the transportation planning agency, is working on the problems of carbon monoxide and photo-chemical oxidents. - Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority (LRAPA) is concentrating on particu- 1 ate s . The L-COG process will be patterned after the T-2000 planning, but is not fully developed at this time. LRAPA and DEQ are using a citizen's advisory committee to develop the particulate plan. The AQMA ci ti z,en IS advi sory commi ttee is a 25-member group representing a broad base of local public and private interests. This group has the responsibility for analyzing the particulate problem, considering strategies for control, and agreeing on which controls seem most appropriate. To support the citizen's group, the LRAPA and DEQ staff will provide technical advice, strategy alternatives, and procedural clarification. The committee is responsible for considering air pollution controls on both traditional point and non-traditional area sources of emissions within the AQMA, and to some extent, outside the metropolitan area. The controls may be applied to both private and public agencies. Traditional sources are such facilities as power plants, veneer driers, boilers, and similar stationary sources. Non-traditional sources include road dust, open burning, motor vehicles, agricultural tilling, and others. Until the control strategy is approved as part of the state implementation plan, no new or modified major emitting facility may be constructed within the Eugene/Springfield AQMA. This means a facility with the potential to emit one hundred tons of pollution a year, or any source with the potential to emit 250 tons per year. It is permissible, as part of the plan, to institute an offset policy to comply with this restriction. Such a policy e could permit a new or modified source to acquire the "pollution quota" of an existing source. The timetable calls for the citizen's advisory committee, which is meeting approximately twice a month, to complete its analysis by the end of August. Discussion of alternative controls will take place during September and early October. During mid-October and November, selection of alterna- tives is scheduled, with final decision expected by mid-November. Open burning controls, however, will be delayed until the results of the summer field and slash burning monitoring program are available. Those decisions are to be completed early next year. The state is required to submit its draft to EPA by January and final by April. EPA is scheduled to reach its decision by July 1, 1979. Once the citizen's group has reached its local pollution control decisions, it will make recommendations to LRAPA and DEQ. LRAPA, after public hearing, is responsible for preparing, approving, and adopting rules for local pollution control within its jurisdiction. LRAPA will submit its approved rules to EQC. EQC, after public hearing, is responsible for approval and adoption of its rules, and incorporation as part of the state implementation plan to be signed by the Governor. EPA is obligated to make the ultimate decision on the state implementation plan. Once that approval has been made, the plan has the force of Federal law. e 7/26/78--6 53'