The House Environment Committee of the N.C. General Assembly established the Ambient Air Quality Working Group to help develop legislation for cleaning up North Carolina's air. Governor Jim Hunt's Clean Air Plan is aimed at bringing North Carolina into compliance with federal clean air standards, particularly the new stricter standard for ozone that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted in July 1997. Preliminary studies by the N.C. Division of Air Quality indicate that broad areas of North Carolina are not meeting the new standard.
Legislation is needed to establish new or improved programs for reducing air pollution.
Some of the documents related to North Carolina clean air legislation, air quality programs, and the efforts of the Ambient Air Quality Working Group are posted here. To view and print PDF files you must install the Adobe Acrobat reader. It is available, free of charge, from Adobe . Contact Webmaster with questions or comments regarding this site.