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EJC:adg 9/29/80 RESOLUTION NO. 80-165 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA STATING ITS INTENT TO IMPLEMENT HEREIN DEFINED "REASONABLY AVAILABLE CONTROL MEASURES" PURSUANT TO THE CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1977 PRIOR TO DECEMBER 31, 1982 WHEREAS, the Federal Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7401, et seq.), seeks to develop a cooperative federal, state, regional and local government program to prevent and control air pollution in order to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare of its population; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 172(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) have prepared an Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) for the South Coast Air Basin with the assistance of the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino, the City of Los Angeles, the San Bernardino Association of Governments, and the State of California Air Resources Board (ARB); and WHEREAS, the AQMP was adopted by SCAG on January 25, 1979, by the SCAQMD on January 26, 1979, was conditionally approved by the ARB on May 10, 1979, and was forwarded to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency on July 25, 1979, in compliance with Section ll0(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act, as amended; and WHEREAS, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977, allows for an extension in the deadlines for attaining national air quality standards from 1982 to 1987 if all "reasonably available control measures" (RACMS) are implemented before December 31, 1982, and in the event these measures are not implemented by this date, empowers EPA to impose economic sanctions which could potentially cost the region billions of dollars in federal transportation and ~ sewer construction grants; and WHEREAS, in order to avoid such federal economic sanctions pursuant to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977, the following six (6) of the total seventy-five (75) AQMP tactics, defined herein in "Exhibit 1," have been specifically identified as "reasonably available control measures" which require some degree of scheduled ~ implementation by cities and counties in the~South Coast Air Basin: Employee ridesharing program Traffic signal synchronization Increased bicycle and pedestrian facilities Energy conservation street lighting Modified work schedules Carpool preferential parking WHEREAS, the AQMP provides that if any of these six (6) measures are found to be inappropriate or unacceptable in the jurisdiction, then a commitment to implement an approved equivalent control measure may be