HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1979.03.21 - 12318P• February 15, 1979
Miscellaneous Resolution # 8822
BY ROBERT W. PAGE, County Commissioner, District #13
IN RE: OAKLAND COUNTY POSITION ON DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
"STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN" ON THE CLEAN AIR ACT (PUBLIC
LAW 95-95)
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, in August of 1977, the Congress of the United
States approved amendments to the Clean Air Act, known as Public
Law 95-95, and,
WHEREAS, Section 121 of said law specifies that the State
of Michigan, in carrying out the requirements of the law, shall
provide "a satisfactory processes of consultation with general
purpose local governments, designated organizations of elected
officials of local governments,..." and,
WHEREAS, Section 174(a) of the law specifies that the
State of Michigan and elected officials of affected local govern-
ments shall "jointly determine which elements of a revised
implementation plan will be planned for an implemented or enforced
by the State and which such elements shall be planned for and
implemented or enforced by local governments...", and,
WHEREAS, the State of Michigan, acting through the Depart-
ment of Natural Resources, prepared a "State Implementation Plan"
pursuant to the Clean Air Act amendments of 1977, and have prepared
such a Plan in violation of Section 121 and Section 174 of the law
in that there was little, if any, consultation with local officials
acting through the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, and
no "joint determination" of the role of the State government and
the role of local government in complying with the mandates of the
law, and,
RaBERT W. PAGE, County,c6mmissioner
WHEREAS, in preparing such a revised State Implementation
Plan the Department of Natural Resources has ignored the political,
social and economic aspects of the plan, all to the detriment of
local governments in Southeast Michigan,
AND, WHEREAS, the County of Oakland will be adversely
affected should the draft State Implementation Plan be approved
by the Governor and by the Environmental Protection Agency;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the County of Oakland
opposes the approval of the draft State Implementation Plan for
Air Quality as proposed by the Department of Natural Resources
in its hearing held February 14, 1979, in Southeast Michigan,
and demands that the State of Michigan, should it continue to act
through the Department of Natural Resources, comply with the relevant
provisions of the law requiring a definitive and joint role for
local officials in the creation and implementation of a revised
plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County of Oakland formally
indicate its difference in viewpoint with the Department of Natural
Resources and urges the Governor of the State of Michigan to take
the appropriate steps to insure that the role of local officials in
the resolution of environmental issues shall be fostered and encouraged
by the departments of the government of the State of Michigan.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that copies of this resolution
be sent to the Governor, Department of Natural Resources, Environmental
Protection Agency, Michigan Association of Counties, National Association
of Counties, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, and State
Senators aria Representatives from Oakland County.
MR. CHAIRPERSON, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
District 013
#8822 March 22, 1979 •
Moved by Gorsline supported by Roth the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Gorsline supported by Page that Resolution #g822 be adopted.
AYES: Aaron, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Hobart, Hoot,
Kelly, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Moore, Murphy, Page, Patterson,
Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Roth. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, Resolution #8822 was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #8822 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their meeting held on March 22, 1979
with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
22nd March 79 this day of 19....
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By Deputy Clerk
