AQMD BREAK-OFF SUPPORTED\Focus would be A.V. needs.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer A task force of local business people and civic leaders is recommending the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley split away from the South Coast Air Quality Management District The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), formed in 1976, is the air pollution agency responsible mainly for regulating stationary sources of air pollution for most of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside County, and all of Orange county. and form its own district. The Antelope Valley Board of Trade panel, working in conjunction with the cities of Lancaster, Palmdale, and the nonprofit Local Economic Development Corp., believes a separate district would be more responsive to the region and attract businesses gun-shy of dealing with the South Coast AQMD AQMD Air Quality Management District AQMD Action Quake Map Depot . Backers say they don't want to ease pollution standards, but said a new district could lower permit fees for businesses and industries seeking to move to the desert. Local officials said businesses are hindered by burdensome AQMD procedures that could be eliminated in a smaller air pollution agency. "It's not our goal to relax regulations," said Denise Henderson, who chaired the task force. "We want to make the regulations more appropriate for a desert district and more responsive to the needs of the district." A report from consultant Jeb Stuart, the former executive officer of the South Coast AQMD, said a district with a staff of seven people is financially feasible. The AQMD has one part-time position for the Antelope Valley now. Details of the $6,000 consultants report won't be released until after it can be reviewed by the two cities and the LEDC LEDC London Economic Development Corporation LEDC Less Economically Developed Country LEDC Logistics Executive Development Course LEDC Latino Economic Development Corporation (Washington, DC) LEDC Lumped Element Directional Coupler later this month. "It's fiscally possible," Lancaster Mayor George Runner George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. said of a separate district. "It will give us control over our own destiny with rules and regulations." A separate district would need the approval of both city councils, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: Assemblyman W.J. "Pete" Knight, R-Palmdale, has introduced legislation to create the district. Civic leaders have been looking at the idea of a separate district for about four years. The task force explored four options: stay with AQMD, join the Mojave Air Pollution Control District, join the Kern County Air Pollution Control District, or create a separate district. |
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