First Regular Session

Sixty-second General Assembly

LLS NO. R99­0803.01 Pam Cybyske

STATE OF COLORADO


BY REPRESENTATIVES Paschall, May, Coleman, Dean, Fairbank, Mace, Mitchell, Nuñez, Scott, Smith, Spradley;

also SENATORS Sullivant, Chlouber, Hernandez, Lamborn.

APPROPRIATIONS

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 99-1045

CONCERNING THE CREATION OF AN INTERIM COMMITTEE TO STUDY MOBILE SOURCE EMISSIONS STRATEGIES.

WHEREAS, The federal "Clean Air Act", as amended by the federal "Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990", 42 U.S.C. sec. 7401 et seq., requires the attainment and maintenance of national ambient air quality standards in part by the regulation of pollution from mobile sources; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly enacted the AIR program, which consists of basic and enhanced emission programs for the inspection and readjustment of motor vehicles in order to comply with the federal "Clean Air Act" requirements; and

WHEREAS, The AIR program has proven to be cumbersome to operate, inconvenient and expensive for Colorado citizens, and a technologically ineffective method to attain and maintain national ambient air quality standards through motor vehicle inspection and readjustment; and

WHEREAS, The protection of Colorado's air quality from motor vehicle emissions must be derived from strategies based on sound scientific and technological data; and

WHEREAS, Once such strategies have been identified and studied, a better program for the attainment and maintenance of national ambient air quality standards in compliance with the "Clean Air Act" and protection of Colorado's air quality, may be established; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty­second General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:

(1)  That there shall be a committee to meet in the interim after the 1999 Regular Session of the General Assembly to study mobile source air pollution strategies. Such interim committee shall consist of eleven members of the General Assembly. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint seven members of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate shall appoint four members of the Senate. The interim committee may consider, but shall not be limited to, the following:

(a)  Identify alternative mobile source air pollution strategies, based on sound technical and scientific data, that may be utilized in Colorado in order to attain and maintain national ambient air quality standards in compliance with the federal "Clean Air Act";

(b)  Advances in technology and what effect, if any, such advances may have on any mobile source air pollution strategy now and in the future;

(c)  Cost of implementation and operation of the strategy and the feasibility of privatizing such implementation and operation;

(d)  What effect such strategy would have on market shares of the industries that would be affected by the strategy; and

(e)  Determine which of the strategies would best attain and maintain national ambient air quality standards in compliance with the federal "Clean Air Act" in Colorado.

(2)  That, in conducting such study, the interim committee may consult, as may be required, with appropriate local, state, and federal agencies and interested members of the public and may hold public hearings in such locations throughout the state as deemed necessary for purposes of the study. The study shall not require additional staff for any state agency or any additional appropriation to any such state agency.

(3)  That the Legislative Council shall report its findings and recommendations to the 2000 Regular Session of the Sixty­second General Assembly.

(4)  That all expenditures incurred in the conduct of the study enumerated in this resolution shall be approved by the chairperson of the Legislative Council and paid by vouchers and warrants drawn as provided by law from funds allocated to the Legislative Council from appropriations made by the General Assembly.