LICA

The Airshed Zone Sector is a standing committee of LICA.

• Operate LICA's Regional Air Monitoring Network, consisting of 25 passive monitoring stations and 1 continuous monitoring station
• Commissioning the Network's 2nd & 3rd continuous monitoring stations (trailers)
• Completed the Implementation Plan for the LICA Airshed Zone
• Received endorsement from the Clean Air Strategic Alliance (CASA), making LICA Alberta's 7th Airshed zone gathering multiple years of air monitoring data, which demonstrates that air quality in the LICA regiona is within Alberta's Ambient Air Quality Objectives worth

Objectives:

• Implement a program to measure, monitor, and collect regional environmental air and soil data in the LICA area
• Combine partner resources and share best practices
• Ensure timely follow-up and reporting on regional air and soil data collection is provided to the committee
• Identify efficiencies and inefficiencies in current air and soil monitoring programs
• Participate in educational initiatives sponsored by LICA
• Establish an airshed zone in the LICA region

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Define a budget required to fund the programs
• Identify and monitor regional environmental air and soil issues, and update monitoring programs as required
• Assemble all available regional environmental data relative to air and soil issues identified by the committee
• Develop and prioritize work plans to meet guidelines for environmental air and soil issues
• Compile and share information on regional environmental air and soil monitoring data
• Facilitate communication of monitoring results and reports to EUB, AENV, and the community

Membership:

• Chair of LICA Board may attend as ex-officio
• Up to five (5) community members may be appointed to the Board
• At least one member of the committee must be a Board member
• Additional members may choose to participate on a regular basis, but shall not receive remuneration or expenses from LICA
• Industry members, NGO's and Regulators

Meetings:

• Meetings may be held as required, at the LICA office or a more convenient location as determined by the committee.
• Meetings will be open to the public.
• Chair is elected by committee membership on an annual basis.

Currently the Committee consists of:

• Community (3), and Alternates (2)
• Alberta Environment (1)
• ERCB (1)
• Health Regions (1)
• Industry (3), and Alternates (2)
• First Nations (1)
• Metis (1)
• Other Sectors (1), and Alternate (1)
• Observers
• Total: Members (12) and Alternates (5)

Resources, Expenses & Budget:

• The Airshed Zone shall have access to the resources of the LICA office and administrator, including phone, fax, e-mail, paper, etc. as required
• The committee shall use a cost-sharing formula for industry funding systems
• The committee may choose to hire an independent consultant to review, disseminate, and report back to the community on data collected on an as-needed basis

Reporting Process:

• The Airshed Zone shall provide the LICA Board with copies of committee meeting minutes
• When requested by the Board or when an issue requires representation for clarification or explanation, the chair or designate of the Airshed Zone will brief the Board
• An annual report will be submitted to the Board
• Technical monitoring reports produced by the committee will be made available to the LICA Board and loaded on the LICA website
• The Airshed Zone shall forward to the LICA Board, for approval, recommendations for any work to be undertaken
• The committee shall meet CASA and AENV airshed zone reporting requirements once the airshed zone is established

Evaluation:

• The Airshed Zone shall review its Terms of Reference and evaluate its objectives at least annually.

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