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· ., ,'151 <br /> <br />RESOLUTION NO. ~2-019 <br /> <br /> OPPOSING INCLUSION OF ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICES <br />IN THE PROPOSED MARKET INCENTIVES PROGRAM (RECLAIM) <br />OF THE SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, on March 5, 1992, the governing board of the South Coast Air Quality <br />Management District will consider a proposal to proceed with the development of rules to <br />implement a market incentives program to allow trading of emissions for permitted stationary <br />sources; and, <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the 1991 Air Quality Management Plan anticipates population growth which <br />will result in increased demands on all essential public services, defined in the Air Quality <br />Management District's New Source Review as publicly owned wastewater treatment and water <br />delivery operations, schools, hospitals, fire fighting, police, prisons, landfill gas control and <br />processing operations, and public transit in the South Coast Air Basin; and, <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the existing New Source Review regulations provide necessary emissions <br />offsets for population growth for essential public services; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, essential public services are needed to protect the public health and safety <br />of the current population as well as the approved future growth in the South Coast Air Basin; <br />and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, The South Coast Air Quality Management District is considering entering <br />into the nllemaldng phase of a market incentives program for emission reductions that would <br />require some essential public services to fully offset the impacts of continuing population growth <br />in addition to complying with annual emissions reductions; and, <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, some essential public ser¥'lceS would be placed in the position of needing <br />to provide additional services without certainty regarding the availability and cost of emissions <br />credits; <br /> <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Santa Ana supports the clean <br />air goals of the state and federal Clean Air Acts but is opposed to including essential public <br />services in the RECLAIM program, and believes that the public interest is better served if <br />essential public services remain under the current command and control regulatory program that <br />provides emission reduction offsets for population growth to such services, following the <br />installation of best available control technology. <br /> <br /> <br />