Linking Transportation and Air Quality Planning Implementation of the Transportation Conformity Regulations in 15 Nonattainment Areas: Executive Summary

Details

• Creators:
  Howitt, A.M. ; Moore, E.M.
• Corporate Contributors:
  John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Climate change
  • Air quality management
  • Plan implementation
  • Regulations
  • Clean Air Act
  • air pollution
  • air quality management
  • federal government agencies
  • implementation
  • local government
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  EPA/420/S-99/002
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Environmental Protection Agency
• Abstract:
  Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1980 requires far reaching efforts under the "transportation conformity" regulations to assure that transportation investments in non-attainment and maintenance areas are consistent with state commitments to meet national air pollution standards. This research documents how these regulations were implemented during the period 1991 through January 1998. The focal questions that organized the study are how has conformity affected key agencies and coinstituencies' organizational capacity and relationships; how has conformity changed the transportation planning/programming process and its results; and how has conformity changed air quality planning and regulation. Although the research does not attempt to evaluate the technical dimensions of conformity modeling, it seeks to place the technical process in the larger context of the institutional relationships involved.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14455/dot_14455_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 251.80 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Transportation Resilience and Vulnerability Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0ac3e3c48ece516f305de4af5e050164caca3ff8d8c73955cbfbab7d280af7d3