AB 588

Current federal regulation requires each state to submit to the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency an annual monitoring network plan documenting

the establishment and maintenance of an air quality surveillance system consisting

of individual monitoring stations meeting specified criteria. States are required to

submit ambient air quality data collected by the monitoring network to the U.S. EPA

quarterly.

This bill prohibits the Department of Natural Resources from including the air

monitoring site located at Kohler-Andrae State Park in Sheboygan County in the

annual monitoring network plan, beginning with the plan submitted in 2018. Under

the bill, upon U.S. EPA approval of the state's monitoring network plan, DNR is

required to cease funding the operation and maintenance of the Kohler-Andrae air

monitoring site and to cease collecting data from the site.

The bill also requires DNR to request a waiver of the relevant provisions of the

federal Clean Air Act relating to the state implementation plan that may be

implicated by discontinuing the use of the air monitoring site located at

Kohler-Andrae State Park in Sheboygan County. Current federal regulation

requires each state to submit to the U.S. EPA a plan that provides for the

implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of primary ambient air quality

standards.