AQMD SEEKS WORDS ON SMOG.Byline: Kerry Cavanaugh Staff Writer SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - Local residents and businesses will be able to voice their concerns and complaints about the region's smog problems during a workshop Thursday hosted by 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. . The agency is seeking public feedback on its second annual plan to provide equal air quality protection throughout the region. ``Just because you can afford to live near the ocean doesn't mean you have more of a right to breathe clean air than the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. ,'' said Oscar Abarca, AQMD AQMD Air Quality Management District AQMD Action Quake Map Depot assistant deputy executive officer for public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. . ``We want people to come out and share with us the concerns they have on the air in their local communities.'' The AQMD plans to establish two Neighborhood Environmental Justice Councils based on concerns raised at a series of workshops. The councils bring residents, businesses and enforcement officers together to tackle local environmental problems. After Pico Rivera Pico Rivera (pē`kō rĭvĕr`ə), city (1990 pop. 59,177), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., SE of Los Angeles on the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers; inc. 1958 with the union of Pico and Rivera into one community. residents complained about idling locomotives, the proximity of auto repair shops near homes and smelly industrial operations, for example, the AQMD established a stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. group that resolved some of the major concerns, Abarca said. The meeting in San Fernando represents a chance for residents to challenge the high rates of pollutants and toxics in the valley, Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez, D-San Fernando, wrote in a letter to constituents. ``We are surrounded by five major freeways carrying heavy traffic and a number of poorly run industrial sites that produce unhealthy air severely impacting the people who live and work next to them,'' Montanez said. Kerry Cavanaugh, (818) 713-3746 kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com IF YOU GO --The AQMD will hold a public workshop at 6 p.m. Thursday at San Fernando City Hall, 117 MacNeil St. CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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