Rhode Island § 1-7-9 - The Permanent Air Quality Monitoring Act

§ 1-7-9. Monitoring actions required and compliance — Sunset provision.

(a) On or before January 31, 2017, and on or before January 31, 2018, and January 31, 2019, thereafter, the department of environmental management, the department of health, and the attorney general shall submit to the governor, the speaker of the house, and the president of the senate, recommendations as to the continuation of the air monitoring required in this act.

(b) Unless extended by the general assembly, the corporation’s obligation to operate and maintain the air monitoring system will cease on July 31, 2023; provided, this sunset date shall be dependent upon the corporation undertaking and completing the following actions prior to July 31, 2023:

(1) As part of the long-term air-quality monitoring program, ambient air-quality monitors shall be set up in a network that shall include at least four (4) monitoring sites in the area of and surrounding Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport. These monitors shall be designed, placed, and maintained so as to measure air-quality impacts from airport operations, including those impacts associated with planes operating on the extended runway and on neighborhoods adjacent to the airport facility, and at the Winslow Park playing fields. In addition to the quarterly summary reports prepared by the corporation based on this data, the corporation shall compile at least twenty (20) months of complete air quality monitoring data from these monitors and submit that data to the department of health prior to May 1, 2023, pursuant to § 1-7-6; and

(2) The corporation shall comply with all other reporting and publishing requirements set forth in this chapter.