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.