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About the Air Pollution Control Division
The mission of the Air Pollution Control Division is to provide our
customers with excellent air quality management services that when taken
together contribute to: the protection of public health; the protection
of ecosystems; and, continual improvement of the air quality related
aesthetic values such as odors and visibility.
Administrative Services Program - Wes Hamlyn, Program Manager
- Manages fiscal and business
matters.
- Develops a comprehensive budget.
- Interacts with legislative processes.
- Ensures payment of bills.
- Develops contracts.
- Coordinates hiring.
Planning and Policy Program - Garry
Kaufman, APCD Deputy Director, Program Manager
- Develops air quality attainment and
maintenance plans to keep Colorado in compliance with the federal
National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
- Focuses on emerging
air quality issues, such as the oil and gas industry, regional haze,
nitrogen deposition at Rocky Mountain National Park, air toxics and
climate change.
- Performs transportation planning.
- Provides public information and education.
- Evaluates and develops air permits for
stationary sources in Colorado.
- Inspects sources to
determine compliance with air regulations and permit conditions.
- Maintains a computerized inventory of air pollution emissions throughout
the state.
- Ensures that residential burning
emission standards are met.
- Regulates open burning of debris.
- Develops and revises
regulations for stationary sources as needed.
- Provides outreach and
assistance to help businesses stay in compliance.
- Provides technical assistance on indoor air pollutants.
- Regulates ozone-depleting
compounds (chlorofluorocarbons).
- Regulates asbestos removal and demolition activities.
- Reviews school asbestos management plans.
- Regulates the removal of lead-based paint
from child-occupied facilities.
- Manages emissions testing programs for gas and diesel motor
vehicles
- Manages an oxygenated fuels program.
- Provides technical
assistance to motorists.
- Provides outreach to the automotive
services industry.
- Conducts research in motor vehicle emissions and technology.
- Collects and analyzes statewide
ambient air quality data.
- Provides daily air quality advisories
during the summer ozone season and the winter high pollution season.
- Performs complex modeling analysis to determine
impacts of air pollution sources on air quality.
- Provides forecasting and meteorology information related to air
pollution
- Maintains emission inventory data to track quantity and sources of
various pollutants.
- Regulates the use of controlled burns and prescribed fire through
a smoke management program.
- Conducts visibility research and analysis.
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