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<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Ávila Farías</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act relating to air pollution.</ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Air quality management districts: oversight.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law establishes the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which is vested with the authority to regulate air emissions located in the boundaries of the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara and portions of the Counties of Solano and Sonoma. </html:p>
<html:p>Under existing law, the Lewis-Presley Air Quality Management Act establishes the South Coast Air Quality Management District in those portions of the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino included within the South Coast Air Basin, as the local agency with the responsibility for comprehensive air pollution control within the basin. </html:p>
<html:p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to ensure accountability and oversight of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District
and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to ensure the rules and regulations they adopt are cost effective, affordable, and achievable.</html:p>
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<html:p>It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to ensure accountability and oversight of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to ensure the rules and regulations they adopt are cost effective, affordable, and achievable.</html:p>
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