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Air Planning Section
The Air and Radiation Program, under the direction of the Program Director Callie
Videtich, is responsible for implementing provisions of the Clean Air Act in Region 8. Our concern is the reduction of adverse human health and welfare effects associated with air pollution.
The State Program Support Unit has responsibility for technical review of State Implementation Plans (SIPs). Our goals include:
- Provide guidance to the states in preparing plans for cleaning the air within their borders.
- Oversee and relieve the impact air pollution may have on 39 national parks, wilderness areas and tribal areas within the six states that comprise Region 8
- Perform mathematical modeling and meteorological assessments to determine the fate and transport of air pollutants and the health or ecological effects of air pollution within Region 8.
- Assure that high quality emission inventories are conducted within each State.
- Conducts assessments and studies of critical regional air issues such as the Denver Brown Cloud.
- Have an assertive role in the reduction of regional haze, visibility, and tribal issues.
For more information, see Nonattainment Areas and Areas with a History of Air Pollution.
