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Currently, $971,000 is available in the Contingent Reserve. There are, however, known costs in 2008 that have been funded by Contingent Reserve in the past. Using Contingent Reserve as the exclusive funding source for these costs would consume the balance of $971,000.
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Approving the transfer of $25,000 from the Contingent Reserve to the State of Wisconsin for the purpose of studying the future of many of the coal-fired heat and power plants in Madison in partnership with the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dane County.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison has several coal-fired power plants, including the State of Wisconsin's Capitol Heat and Power Plant, the University of Wisconsin's Charter Street Heating Plant, and Madison Gas and Electric's Blount Street Power Plant; and
WHEREAS, the Clean Air Act and Amendments of 1990 define a "nonattainment area" as a locality where air pollution levels persistently exceed National Ambient Air Quality Standards, or that contributes to ambient air quality in a nearby area that fails to meet standards; and
WHEREAS, designating an area as nonattainment is a formal rulemaking process, and EPA normally takes this action only after air quality standards have been exceeded for several consecutive years; and
WHEREAS, EPA designations of nonattainment areas are only based on violations of national air quality standards for carbon monoxide, lead, ozone (1-hour), particulate matter (PM-10), and sulfur dioxide, and EPA will be making a designation regarding particulate matter (PM 2.5) soon; and
WHEREAS, Dane County is at risk of being designated non-attainment particulate matter (PM 2.5) and also needs to be concerned about being designated non-attainment for ground level ozone; and
WHEREAS, since spring of 2007 representatives from the Wisconsin Department of Administration, the University of Wisconsin, the City of Madison, and Dane County have begun p...
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