Idaho Code 39-6714 – Air Quality Plan of a Regional Air Quality Council
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(1) A regional air quality council shall develop and accept the study within one (1) year after establishment of the council. It shall make the study available to all appropriate and interested local, state and federal agencies and to any interested persons. For a period of ninety (90) days after dissemination, any interested agency or person may submit written suggestions, comments or proposals for the plan, or recommendations to the council.
(2) The council shall thereafter prepare a final regional air quality plan which shall be completed within one hundred eighty (180) days after dissemination of the study.
Terms Used In Idaho Code 39-6714
- Air quality plan: means the comprehensive air quality management plan for a specified regional area as developed and modified by a regional air quality council. See Idaho Code 39-6705
- Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
- Council: means a regional air quality council established pursuant to this chapter. See Idaho Code 39-6705
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114Specified regional area: means a county or counties, or a defined geographical area, where air quality is threatened. See Idaho Code 39-6705 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114 Study: means the comprehensive, scientifically based study of air quality in a specified regional area. See Idaho Code 39-6705
(3) The council shall identify present and future air issues in the specified regional area.
(4) Once completed, the council shall provide copies of its plan to all agencies and persons who have indicated an interest in the study. The council shall thereupon provide for one (1) or more public hearings upon its plan and recommendations with notice given as provided in chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code.
(5) After receiving the information obtained at the public hearing, the council shall make such changes and revisions as it deems necessary and within thirty (30) days after such public hearing, but in no event later than the next regular session of the Idaho legislature, the council shall submit the plan to the legislature.
(6) The legislature shall, within the next regular session during or after which it receives the plan, accept, reject or modify the plan by concurrent resolution.
(7) Thereafter, the council shall assist in the adoption and enforcement of the provisions of the plan. Before its dissolution, the council shall also assist these local, state and federal agencies to establish an ongoing, joint-agency oversight responsibility for the plan.