BOARD MEETING DATE: July 12, 1996
AGENDA NO. 10
PROPOSAL:
Recognize and Appropriate Funds from the EPA for Three Air Monitoring
Projects
SYNOPSIS:
EPA has allocated Section 105 and supplemental grant funds to AQMD for
three projects. This action is to recognize and appropriate these funds
to the FY 1996-97 Budget, as follows: (1) $1,216,620 for the fourth year
Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations program implementation, (2)
$75,000 in supplemental grant funds for the equipment replacement program
of existing NOx analyzers; and (3) $25,000 in supplemental grant funds
for the PM2.5 project.
COMMITTEE:
Administrative, June 21, 1996, Recommended for Approval
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recognize $1,316,620 in revenue from EPA and, upon receipt of award,
appropriate $1,196,900 from Undesignated Fund Balance for FY 1996-97 as
set forth in Attachment A. The remainder, $119,720, is already appropriated
in the FY 1996-97 Budget.
James M. Lents, Ph.D.
Executive Officer
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Background
In February 1993, the United States EPA promulgated the
Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations (PAMS) regulations for areas
classified as serious, severe or extreme non-attainment. Those regulations
required AQMD to conduct monitoring for ozone precursors, in this area
adding monitoring equipment at a rate of one site per year, up to a total
of seven sites by 1998. EPA has allocated Section 105 and supplemental
grant funds to AQMD for this purpose. EPA funding has increased annually
to pay for start-up and operational costs.
There is $75,000 available in EPA grant funds for monitoring
equipment replacement or upgrading. Staff has been evaluating current equipment
available on the market. A decision will be made by August 1996 on whether
to upgrade existing equipment or to purchase new equipment.
EPA has offered the AQMD $25,000 in supplemental grant
funds for purchase of a PM2.5 sampler and operating supplies. EPA has not
yet made a final decision on which types of samplers will be acceptable.
That decision should be made by the end of calendar year 1996.
Resource Impacts
All the above purchases and subsequent work in the programs
can be accomplished with proposed FY 1996-97 staffing levels and will require
no additional resources in FY 1996�97.
In FY 1996-1997, $1,216,620 is offered to AQMD as part
of the Section 105 grant to establish a fifth site and operate those five
sites for the year. An additional $75,000 in grant funds would be allocated
to the ASTD FY 1996-97 Fixed Asset Major Object for the purchase or upgrade
of eight ambient NOx analyzers. Supplemental grant funds of $25,000 would
be allocated $20,000 to the ASTD FY 1996-97 Fixed Asset Major Object for
the purchase of a PM2.5 sampler and $5,000 to the Services and Supplies
Major Object, Laboratory Supplies account, to proceed with the purchases
following the EPA decision on acceptable equipment.
Since the receipt of funds by the AQMD constitutes a budget
supplement within the meaning of Health and Safety Code 40720(j), notice
of this proposed supplement was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal,
San Bernardino Sun, Riverside Press Enterprise, Orange County Register,
and the Inland Valley Bulletin.
A. AQMD Proposed Fourth Year Equipment Acquisition and Staffing for the PAMS Program