Bill Text: AZ HCM2008 | 2017 | Fifty-third Legislature 1st Regular | Enrolled
Bill Title: Exceptional events rule; revisions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-04-18 - Transmitted to Secretary of State [HCM2008 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2017-HCM2008-Enrolled.html
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature First Regular Session 2017
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HOUSE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 2008 |
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A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL
urging the United States Congress and environmental protection agency to act to revise the exceptional events rule.
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To the Congress of the United States and the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency:
Your memorialist respectfully represents:
Whereas, Arizona is prone to uncontrollable, naturally occurring air events, including haboobs, other dust-related storms and wildfires, that negatively impact the ambient levels of fine and course particulates and ozone such that those levels exceed the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for criteria polutants; and
Whereas, the Exceptional Events Rule (EER) is a critical tool to Arizona in complying with the NAAQS, especially in light of Arizona's challenging environment, climate and geographic location; and
Whereas, local and state air quality agencies have historically spent an inordinate amount of resources developing exceptional event demonstrations when the underlying EER was laden with flaws, challenges, inconsistencies and uncertainties; and
Whereas, on September 16, 2016, the EPA finalized revisions to the EER that improved certain aspects of the EER; and
Whereas, the finalized revisions failed to address certain intrastate, interstate and international transport issues that had been brought to the EPA's attention by certain stakeholders before the finalization of the changes; and
Whereas, altitude, topography, lightning, wildfires, stratospheric intrusions, biogenic sources and regional and international transport are all factors of background ozone and are not easily mitigated through regulation; and
Whereas, the EPA continues to treat background ozone as a factor for compliance with the NAAQS and has yet to adopt an effective process to identify emissions sources that are outside of the states' regulatory control.
Wherefore your memorialist, the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring, prays:
1. That the United States Environmental Protection Agency revise the Exceptional Events Rule to provide for an effective process to address background ozone and other emissions that are outside of the states' regulatory control.
2. That the United States Congress take action to ensure that the Exceptional Events Rule is revised to provide for an effective process to address background ozone and other emissions that are outside of the states' regulatory control.
3. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona and the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
PASSED BY THE HOUSE FEBRUARY 21, 2017.
PASSED BY THE SENATE APRIL 17, 2017.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 17, 2017.
