April 12, 2004

Greater Triangle Regional Council releases its report on Air Quality in the Triangle Region. The report may be downloaded from the reports tab of this web site.

April 15, 2004

EPA announces an ozone non-attainment area for the Triangle covering all of Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Orange, Person and Wake counties and the following townships in Chatham County: Baldwin, Center, New Hope, Williams.

April 20, 2004

Launch of the Triangle Best Workplaces for Commuters campaign. Visit www.trianglebwc.org for more details.

June 8, 2004

Triangle Air Awareness Program Ozone Season Kickoff Event. Visit www.daq.state.nc.us/airaware for more details.

June 15, 2004

Effective date of the ozone non-attainment designation for the Triangle.

July 1, 2004

Interagency Consultation Meeting on transportation conformity. Contact johnhc@tjcog.org for more details.

June 15, 2005

Regional transportation planning organizations in the Triangle must have approved plans demonstrating that they will meet air quality conformity standards by June 2009.

June 15, 2007

The NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources must have an air quality State Implementation Plan for the Triangle showing how the region will attain the ozone standard by June 2009.

June 2009

Date for which the Triangle and the State must demonstrate attainment of the 8-hour ozone standard.