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Air Quality"Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity Act - A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)" requires that the metropolitan planning process be closely coordinated with the mandates of the Clean Air Act in the development of transportation plans and programs. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is responsible for conducting air quality conformity analysis for regional transportation plans and programs The HRTPO assists VDOT in the development of transportation control strategies that will help Hampton Roads attain the air quality standards. The HRTPO also assists in evaluating how regional transportation plans and programs will impact air quality. The HRTPO performs technical analyses of air quality emissions for all projects requesting federal CMAQ funds. Projects only qualify if they will reduce emissions and demonstrate air quality improvements. In July of 1997, the EPA promulgated a new eight-hour national Ambient Air Quality Standard that set the maximum ozone concentration at 0.08 parts per million. On June 15, 2004, based on the new standard, EPA designated Hampton Roads as a marginal non-attainment area for ozone. On June 1, 2007, the EPA re-designated Hampton Roads as an attainment area ozone. Technically, the region is considered a maintenance area - a designation given to an area that was originally designated a non-attainment area for a pollutant that later met the federal standard for the pollutant, and for which the EPA has approved an air quality maintenance plan that shows how the area will remain in attainment through 2018. For more information on air conformity analysis, please review, "Consultation Procedures for the Hampton Roads Ozone Nonattainment Area: In Support of the Transportation Conformity Regulations." |
HOT TOPICS
The 2012 Virginia Hurricane Guide is out.
Click here to view the Public Meeting of our Federal Certification Review. VDOT needs your input for the Click here to view the Environmental Justice Roundtable Meeting held on 3/12/2012
Click the image above to view "A Region United", a video on freight movement in Hampton Roads. Upcoming MeetingsHRTPO Board
HRTPO Board Retreat Citizen Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC)
Thursday, May 10, 2012 Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) Offices
Transportation Technical Advisory Committee (TTAC)
Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) Subcommittee Meeting
Freight Transportation Advisory Committee (FTAC)
Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC)
HRTPO Legislative Ad-hoc Committee
Hampton Roads Transportation Operations (HRTO) Subcommittee
TRAFFIX Oversight Subcommittee
Transportation Programming Subcommittee
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