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context of making reasonable progress towards the national 

 visibility goal of no man made impairment in Class I areas. 



• The Communications Committee is charged with developing 

 methods and processes for ensuring effective internal 

 communications within the Commission's structure and externally 

 with interests groups and the general public. 



The Commission has established a Public Advisory Committee. 

 This Committee provides advice to both the Commission and the 

 Operations Committee. It has been charged by the Commission with 

 coming up with a consensus recommendation on making reasonable 

 progress towards the national visibility goal. 



Membership on the Public Advisory, Technical, Alternatives 

 Assessment and Communications Committees includes representatives 

 from industry, environmental groups, tribes, academia, Mexico, 

 and federal, state and local governments. (See Attachment 1 for 

 Committee membership.) The Committees operate on a consensus 

 basis and provide a mechanism for integrating technical and 

 policy information from public and private sources into the 

 Commissions decision making processes. 



The Commission has been operating under a combination of 

 cash and in kind resources. It has received a base grant of 

 $250,000 from EPA each of the last three years and in FY 94 

 received line item appropriation from Congress of $375,000. The 

 value of the time contributed by committee members is estimated 

 to be several hundred thousand dollars each year. The 

 Commission's cash resources have gone primarily for staff, travel 

 and limited contractual support. The need for additional funds 

 for contractual support has become the most critical issue facing 

 the Commission. This issue will be discussed later in our 

 testimony. 



As you can see, the Commission has embarked on an ambitious, 

 broad based process to craft a regional solution to a problem 

 that has regional and national significance. To date the process 

 has been successful. Attitudes have been positive, absent of 

 problem denial, and considerable progress has been made. We 

 would now like to outline where we are in the process and 

 describe the emission management options under consideration by 

 the Commission. 



The Commission has developed an emissions inventory to 

 provide a basis for determining the contribution of various 

 source sectors to regional haze on the Colorado Plateau. To this 

 end, the Commission will assess all pollution species and source 

 categories, i.e., point, area, and mobile sources, within the 

 transport region for their contribution to haze. It is important 



