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State warns Utah County faces 'serious' PM2.5 nonattainment classification, stricter controls possible
Summary
Utah County was told by the Division of Air Quality it is being reclassified as a 'serious' PM2.5 nonattainment area; the county must prepare a more stringent state implementation plan with a 2019 attainment review and possibly tighter control measures that could raise compliance costs.
State air-quality staff told the Board of County Commissioners that monitoring data show Utah County missed its PM2.5 attainment date and that the EPA has proposed reclassification to a "serious" nonattainment area. Bill Reese of the state Division of Air Quality outlined the implications: the state must prepare a serious-area State Implementation Plan (SIP) that builds on the earlier moderate-area SIP, includes an updated quantitative air-modeling analysis, and assigns a new attainment date (initially 2019).
Reese said the serious classification raises the benchmark for required…
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