§ 1-7-1. Long-term air-quality-monitoring program. (a) The Rhode Island airport corporation (RIAC) shall design, acquire, install, operate, and maintain a long-term air-quality-monitoring program in the vicinity of Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport. The corporation may hire a consultant to perform these tasks. (b) The monitoring program shall provide for the monitoring of all of […]
§ 1-7-2. Legislative findings. The general assembly hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport is located in a densely populated, primarily residential area of the city of Warwick. (b) Many of the airport operations and activities result in emissions of a number of air pollutants that may be harmful […]
§ 1-7-3. Definitions. The following words and phrases, for the purposes of this chapter, have the following meanings: (1) “Corporation” means the Rhode Island airport corporation as established in § 1-2-1.1. (2) “Monitoring program” means the long-term, air-quality monitoring program as established by this chapter. History of Section.P.L. 2007, ch. 190, § 2; P.L. 2007, […]
§ 1-7-4. Air quality monitoring public advisory committee. An “air quality monitoring public advisory committee” shall be established to advise the corporation on the development and implementation of the long-term, air-quality monitoring program, and the preparation of annual work plans. The public advisory committee shall be made up of at least nine (9) public members […]
§ 1-7-5. Health study. (a) The corporation shall provide the department of health with funding in an amount not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), half to be paid in fiscal year 2008 and the other half to be paid in fiscal year 2009, which funds the department of health will use for an […]
§ 1-7-6. Reporting. (a) The corporation shall provide the department of environmental management with an inventory of greenhouse gas pollutants, including, but not limited to, carbon dioxide and methane, and an annual inventory of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide. The inventories of data generated in the prior calendar year shall be reported to […]
§ 1-7-7. Regulation and enforcement — Powers of the department of health and the department of environmental management. (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall diminish or abrogate the powers granted to the department of environmental management and the department of health pursuant to chapters 23 and 1 of title 23 as amended, respectively. (b) […]
§ 1-7-8. Violations — Sanctions — Injunctive relief. (a)(1) Willful noncompliance of this chapter that impairs the monitoring program herein established shall be considered a violation of a program requirement as described in § 23-23-14. (2) The attorney general of the state shall have the power to bring an action in the name of the […]
§ 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 […]
