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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE PERMANENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING ACT

     Introduced By: Representatives McNamara, Solomon, Bennett, Vella-Wilkinson, and
Shanley

     Date Introduced: February 01, 2023

     Referred To: House Environment and Natural Resources

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 1-7-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 1-7 entitled "The Permanent

Air Quality Monitoring Act" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     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 five (5) years after the completion of the freight terminal construction:

     (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.

     (c) The corporation shall provide long-term air quality monitoring for the areas surrounding

the Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport for an additional five (5) years after the

completion of the freight terminal.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE PERMANENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING ACT

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     This act would mandate an additional five (5) year period of air quality monitoring, after

completion of the freight terminal, of the area surrounding the Rhode Island T.F. Green

International Airport.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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