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TO: WILLIAM A. HUSTON, CITY MANAGER
FROM: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
SUBJECT: SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT RECLAIM PROGRAM
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 92-37
opposing South Coast Air Quality Management District inclusion of
essential public services in the RECLAIM program.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
On March 5, 1992, the South Coast Air Quality Management District
(SCAQMD) Board will be considering a proposal to establish a
Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM) Program. If
adopted, this Program would require the purchase of marketable
permits by industries, businesses and governmental agencies seeking
to expand services that could generate pollutants. The number of
available permits would be finite and would only become available
when existing permitted entities shut down and pollutants are
reduced more significantly than required by the Air Quality
Management Plan. Permits would have to be acquired based upon
their fair market price.
As presently proposed, the program would place municipal
governments in direct competition with private industry over
securing marketable permits. Of course, local governments are
required to provide essential public services based upon population
and growth.
Recently, the Regional Advisory and Planning Council (RAPC) has
voted to recommend that the South Coast Air Quality Management
District Board exempt essntial public services, such as fire and
police, from the proposed Marketable Permits Program. The Orange
County Division of the League of California Cities has requested
Tustin cooperation and support of RAPC's efforts toward obtaining
an exemption for these essential public services. Essential public
services would still be subject to existing SCAQMD rules so that
the air quality impacts of expanding such services would still need
to be evaluated. If the SCAQMD Board approves the Program, the
process of rule-making would begin.
City Council Report
South Coast Air Quality
Management District Reclaim Program
March 2, 1992
Page 2
CONCLUSION
Requiring governmental agencies to participate in the RECLAIM
program could seriously jeopardize the public health and safety by
severely restricting the City's ability to expand essential public
services when needed. It is extremely important for the City of
Tustin to support the RAPC action opposing inclusion of essential
public services as part of the proposed Program. Therefore, it is
recommended that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 92-37
opposing South Coast Air Quality Management District inclusion of
essential public services in the RECLAIM program. Council action
on this matter will be forwarded to the League of Cities and the
SCAQMD.
Sara Pa halides
Associate Planner
Attachment: Resolution No. 92-37
CAS:SJP:nm/reclaim
Christine A. Shim*eton
Assistant City Manager
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RESOLUTION NO. 92-37
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA,
OPPOSING INCLUSION OF ESSENTIAL
PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE PROPOSED
MARKET INCENTIVES PROGRAM (RECLAIM)
OF THE SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY
MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
WHEREAS, on March 5, 1992, the governing board of
the South Coast Air quality Management District will
consider a proposal to proceed with the development of
rules to implement a market incentives program to allow
trading of emissions for permitted stationary sources;
and,
WHEREAS, the 1991 Air Quality Management Plan
anticipates population growth which will result in
increased demands on all essential public services,
defined in the Air Quality Management District's New
Source Review as publicly owned wastewater treatment and
water delivery operations, schools, hospitals, fire
fighting, police, prisons, landfill gas control and
processing operations, and public transit in the South
Coast Air Basin; and,
WHEREAS, the existing New Source Review regulations
provide necessary emissions offsets for population growth
for essential public services; and
WHEREAS, essential public services are needed to
protect the public health and safety of the current
population as well as the approved future growth in the
South coast Air Basin; and
WHEREAS, essential public services will continue to
install best available air pollution control technology
at their facilities to reduce emissions to lowest
practicable levels; and.
WHEREAS, the South Coast Air Quality Management
District is considering entering into the rulemaking
phase of a market incentives program for emission
reductions that would require some essential public
services to fully offset the impacts of continuing
population growth in addition to complying with annual
emissions reductions; and,
WHEREAS, some agencies would be placed in the
position of needing to provide additional services
without certainty regarding the availability and cost of
emissions credits;
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Resolution No. 92-37
Page 2
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of
Tustin supports the clean air goals of the state and
federal Clean Air Acts but is opposed to including
essential public services in the RECLAIM program, and
believes that the public interest is better served if
essential public services remain under the current
command and control regulatory program that provides
emission reduction offsets for population growth to such
services, following the installation of best available
control technology.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Tustin, California held on the 2nd
day of March, 1992.
Charles E. Puckett, Mayor
Mary E. Wynn, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF TUSTIN )
CERTIFICATION FOR RESOLUTION NO. 92-37
MARY E. WYNN, City Clerk and ex -of f icio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby
certify that the whole number of the members of the City
Council of the City of Tustin is f ive ; that the above and
foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 2nd day of March, 1992, by the following vote:
COUNCILPERSONS AYES:
COUNCILPERSONS NOES:
COUNCILPERSONS ABSTAINED:
COUNCILPERSONS ABSENT:
MARY E. WYNN, City Clerk