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Air Quality
As the designated metropolitan planning organization for the region, SACOG is responsible for ensuring that transportation projects and plans do not impede the region’s clean air goals. SACOG evaluates all projects included in the federal Metropolitan Transportation Plan and the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program to ensure consistency with air quality objectives - a process referred to as finding or determining conformity. SACOG has closely partnered with the five air districts of the Sacramento Region in the effort to develop a new State Implementation Plan (SIP) that will show how the region can meet the federal ozone standards mandated by the federal Clean Air Act by 2018. As part of the region's overall effort to meet clean air standards and achieve conformity with transportation plans, SACOG also partners with the air districts to promote clean-fuel vehicles and develop mobile source control measures through the Sacramento Emergency Clean Air and Transportation (SECAT) program. USEPA has found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets for the Sacramento Region in the new 8-Hour Ozone State Implementation Plan are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. This finding becomes effective August 12, 2009. Air Quality Staff
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