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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010-043-07/20/2010-APPROVING THE REVISED CARBON MONOXIDE MAINTENANCE PLAN: FORT COLLINS ATTAINMENT/MAINTENANCE AREA AND RESOLUTION 2010-043 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROVING THE REVISED CARBON MONOXIDE MAINTENANCE PLAN: FORT COLLINS ATTAINMENT/MAINTENANCE AREA AND DIRECTING THE CITY'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE NORTH FRONT RANGE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT THE SAME WHEREAS, the Fort Collins area was designated a "non-attainment" area for carbon monoxide in 1979 for violations of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard ("NAAQS") for carbon monoxide,pursuant to Clean Air Act("CAA")and the Colorado State Implementation Plan ("SIP") requirements; and WHEREAS, no violations of the applicable CAA NAAQS for carbon monoxide have occurred in the Fort Collins area since 1991; and WHEREAS, the Fort Collins area was redesignated as an "attainment area" for carbon monoxide in 2003 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("U.S. EPA"); and WHEREAS, the North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization ("NFRMPO)", which has been designated the lead air quality planning agency for the Fort Collins area, is responsible for preparing and providing to the State of Colorado for review a maintenance plan that meets the requirements of the CAA, including a demonstration that the area will maintain compliance with the applicable air quality standard for a period of at least ten years after redesignation; and WHEREAS, in connection with the redesignation, a maintenance plan was prepared that demonstrated attainment of the carbon monoxide standard through 2015; and WHEREAS, the City Council considered and approved the original Fort Collins Attainment/Maintenance Plan with its adoption of Resolution 2002-047 on May 7, 2002; and WHEREAS, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission and the U.S. EPA adopted the original Fort Collins Attainment/Maintenance Plan on July 18,2002 and July 22,2003,respectively; and WHEREAS,Fort Collins carbon monoxide concentrations have fallen steadily over the past two decades largely as a result of the federal new.vehicle emission standards and are now 20% of the carbon monoxide NAAQS; and WHEREAS; federal CAA and the U.S. EPA require a revision to the original Maintenance Plan to show continued attainment of the carbon monoxide standard for a second ten-year term from 2015 through 2025; and WHEREAS:the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment,working together with the NFRMPO,prepared a draft Revised Maintenance Plan for carbon monoxide for Fort Collins covering the period from 2015 through 2025; and WHEREAS; the Revised Maintenance Plan was prepared using the Limited Maintenance Plan option available to areas such as Fort Collins that are at least 85% of the carbon monoxide NAAQS; and WHEREAS,the Limited Maintenance Plan option requires the development of an emissions inventory for carbon monoxide but does not require projection of that inventory to future years, considers that the maintenance demonstration is satisfied if the monitoring data show that the area remains at 85 percent of the carbon monoxide NAAQS or below, and states that emissions budgets for transportation conformity may be treated as essentially non-constraining for transportation conformity because it is unreasonable to expect that such an area will experience so much growth during the maintenance period that a violation of the carbon monoxide NAAQS would result; and WHEREAS, the Revised Maintenance Plan retains all the federally-enforceable carbon monoxide control strategies identified in the original Maintenance Plan and demonstrates that the applicable federal air quality standards will be met in Fort Collins through 2025; and WHEREAS,the NFRMPO will consider formal adoption of the Revised Maintenance Plan on August 5, 2010; and WHEREAS,the process of adoption and approval of the Revised Maintenance Plan requires that the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission review and approve the Plan, and requires that the Colorado General Assembly then adopt legislation approving the Revised Maintenance Plan and making a parallel revision to the Colorado SIP, to be submitted to the U.S. EPA for final approval; and WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Air Quality Advisory Board voted unanimously on June 21, 2010 to recommend that City Council support the Revised Maintenance Plan. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, COLORADO as follows: Section 1. That the proposed Revised Maintenance Plan, as described hereinabove, is hereby approved. Section 2. That the City Council's designated representative to the NRFMPO is hereby directed to vote in support,of the Revised Maintenance Plan, as described herein. -2- Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Fort Collins this 20th day of July A.D. 2010. i Mayo ATTEST:, City Clerk -3-