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Sac Metro Air District highlights community-focused supplemental environmental projects, selects two new grants
Summary
The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District updated the board on its Supplemental Environmental Projects program, reviewed completed projects that funded community air filtration and green infrastructure, and announced two newly selected projects focused on tree planting and inclusive electric mobility.
Angela Thompson, a program manager in the district's engineering and compliance division, told the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District board on Aug. 28 that the district's Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEP) program allows violators to fund community-benefiting projects to offset up to 50% of penalty amounts. "They are legally required elements of air quality enforcement programs," Thompson said, describing SEPs as projects that must benefit the public, improve air quality, have a nexus to the violation, go above and beyond compliance and not benefit the violator.
The program has prioritized projects in AB 617 communities and other historically underserved neighborhoods. Thompson reviewed completed SEPs including a Midtown Association carbon footprint reduction program (which replaced two gas-powered trucks with…
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