This bill focuses on increasing transparency and public access regarding air quality control. Here’s a breakdown of what it requires:
Record Maintenance:
Owners or operators of buildings, structures, facilities, or installations that emit or could emit air pollutants (referred to as stationary sources) are required to maintain records. These records should help the public understand whether the stationary source is complying with air quality control regulations.
Public Accessibility:
The records must be publicly available and accessible.
Owners or operators must post these records on their public website, providing a direct link to access them.
Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE):
The CDPHE is tasked with ensuring that members of the public can easily find these records. It must include a link on its own website that directs people to the websites of owners or operators where the records are available.
The bill aims to increase public access to information regarding the compliance of air pollution sources with environmental standards. It ensures that people can easily verify whether entities are adhering to air quality regulations. This also allows for greater public oversight of air quality control efforts in the state.
Summary
Under current law, the air quality control commission is tasked
with developing an effective air quality control program (program), including adopting rules necessary to carry out the program.
The bill requires a person that owns, leases, operates, controls, or
supervises (owner or operator) a building, structure, facility, or installation that emits or may emit an air pollutant (stationary source) to maintain records that will help the public determine whether the owner or operator is in compliance with rules establishing applicable air quality control regulations (records). The bill requires an owner or operator of a stationary source to make the records publicly available and accessible through a link on the owner or operator's public website.
The department of public health and environment is required to
include a link on its website directing members of the public to the website of an owner or operator where the records are available.
