State Fiscal Year 1997-2000 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) Cleveland/Akron/Lorain Moderate Ozone Nonattainment Area Air Quality Conformity Documentation

PDFResearch PaperAir quality managementNonattainment areasOzonePollutantsRegional planningLong range planningOhioNortheast Ohio Areawide Coordinating AgencyNortheast Ohio Areawide Coordinating AgencyNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Plans and Policy StatementsUS Transportation CollectionThis document, which is a portion of the Ohio 1997-2000 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), describes the conformity determination for the former eight county Cleveland/Akron/Lorain (CAL) Moderate Ozone Nonattainment Area, which includes the planning areas of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (AMATS), and the County of Ashtabula. The CAL was redesignated to a maintenance area for ozone on May 7, 1996, and as a result, the CAL is no longer required to conduct an action/baseline comparison for conformity purposes. The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is responsible for the review of and the conformity determination for transportation changes in the County of Ashtabula. Ohio's 1997-2000 transportation improvement programs (TIPs) conform to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) because the TIPs: Contribute to the SIP's purpose of eliminating and reducing ozone violations; Emission burdens from the plans and TIPs are below the budgets established for them in the SIP; Provide for timely implementation of transportation control measures in the applicable SIP; The plans and TIPs have been prepared in accordance with the final conformity guidance. In all cases, the TIPs are below the emissions budgets established for transportation in the CAL areas