building equipment that emit air contaminants. Additional legislation created The a State Air Pollution Control Board within the Department of Public Health to serve the northeastern Illinois metropolitan area in an advisory capacity. Board was appointed by the Governor and functioned in an advisory capacity, but had no authority for controlling air pollution. A third law in 1961 created the Southwestern Illinois Area Study Commission for the purpose of undertaking longrange planning for the metropolitan area centering around East St. Louis. An air pollution subcommittee of the Commission reported on the impact of air pollution in the area and made specific recommendations for control by a State agency. A bill to create a state air pollution control agency with restricted regulatory powers was vetoed as ineffective by the Governor during this same year. In 1963 the Illinois General Assembly enacted the present Illinois Air Pollution Control Act. The Act created the Illinois Air Pollution Control Board as an independent agency responsible for the prevention and abatement of air pollution throughout the State. The Act further provided that the basic personnel for fulfilling the provisions of the Act will be personnel of the Department of Public Health. An appropriation of $50,000 for a period of 2 years was made. Since its appointment in October 1963, the Illinois Air Pollution Control Board has initiated action in a number of areas dealing with air pollution control. Interstate legislation with Indiana has been included in action initiated. In 1965 the Missouri State Legislature enacted the Missouri Air Conservation Law. The Commission provided for by the law had been appointed but a staff had not been employed by the end of 1965. INTERSTATE AIR POLLUTION STUDY Origin of Study The Interstate Air Pollution Study, St. Louis East St. Louis Metropolitan Area, has been a cooperative project between the Technical Assistance Branch, Division of Air Pollution, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (an agency of the Federal Government) and state and local agencies. It was undertaken as a cooperative study of air pollution in the St. Louis East St. Louis Metropolitan Area with the broad objectives of (1) assisting the two States and several local agencies to strengthen and coordinate their air pollution activities and control programs and (2) augmenting existing knowledge on the nature and distribution of air pollution and factors affecting prevention or control. The Interstate Air Pollution Study was undertaken as a result of two requests from local agencies to the Public Health Service, Division of Air Pollution. These requests were submitted almost simultaneously but independently. One origi nated from the late Mr. James H. Carter, Commissioner of Air Pollution for the City of St. Louis, Missouri. The other was initiated by the Reverend W. R. Warner, who was at that time Chairman of the East St. Louis Mayor's Air Pollution Committee, for the City of East St. Louis, Illinois. Mr. Carter requested aid in studying and solving odor problems. Reverend Warner requested assistance in drafting an air pollution ordinance for the City of East St. Louis. A preliminary investigation indicated that the air pollution problem in the St. Louis metropolitan area was of such nature that the mere drafting of an ordinance for one city, or the study of odor problems in another city would not solve the air pollution problem of the two-state metropolitan area. At meetings of Technical Assistant Branch representatives with some of the local agencies from both states in the early spring of 1962, it was determined that there was local interest in doing an extensive cooperative survey. Organization In the early fall of 1962 a group of representatives from the two states and local metropolitan area agencies met and drafted what is now the Interstate Air Pollution Study project agreement. The Study project was designed for two parts. The first, Phase I, was started on January 1, 1963, and lasted for 6 months, to June 30 of that year. The purpose of Phase I was to make an appraisal of air pollution in the St. Louis a report that would indicate areas of major importance that were to be studied in more detail during Phase II. Phase II was to begin at the end of Phase I and last for an additional year. The data gathered during the two phases would then be studied and recommendations made for an air resource management program. The Interstate Air Pollutin Study was dependent on the cooperation of several agencies representing several separate political bodies and independent interests; therefore, complete understanding and agreement concerning direction and purpose had to be established. This unity was assured in two ways. Cooperative project agreements were drawn up for each of the two phases and signed by the cooperating agencies. The Phase I Project Agreement was signed on January 17, 1963, by representatives from: East St. Louis Metropolitan Area and prepare St. Louis Department of Public Safety, Division of Air Pollution Control East St. Louis St. Louis County Health Department East Side Health District Missouri Division of Health Illinois Department of Public Health Bi-State Development Agency Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce U. S. Public Health Service The Phase II Project Agreement was signed on May 14, 1964, by all of the above agencies and two additional agencies. They were: St. Louis Health Division State of Illinois Air Pollution Control Board The core of the Project operation was an executive committee composed of representatives from the agencies that signed the Cooperative Project Agreement. The Public Health Service representative served as Project Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee until the Spring of 1965 when a local agency representative assumed this function. The Executive Committee was the policy-making body of the project. The Division of Air Pollution, Technical Assistance Branch, furnished the full-time staff, which consisted of an average of five technical persons and one secretary. The number was flexible, however, and fluctuated as needs arose or items of the Project were completed. In addition the Technical Assistance Branch furnished office space and equipment. The cooperating agencies furnished additional personnel, laboratory services, and other services. The final goal of the Project was to develop an air resource management program plan to recommend to the citizens of the two-state metropolitan area. Study Area The Study area consisted of six counties plus the City of St. Louis. They were St. Louis, St. Charles, and Jefferson Counties in Missouri and St. Clair, Madison, and Monroe Counties in Illinois. This is the area covered by the Bi-State Development Agency. It consists of the St. Louis Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area plus Monroe County, which has an area of 380 square miles and a population of 15,507. The total Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area population in 1960 was 2,060,000. Approximately 95 percent of the population and most of the industrial area are concentrated in a 400-square-mile, centrally located, urbanized area. Table 1 and the Study area population map, Figure 1, show the Study area population distribution characteristics. The topography of the Study area is gently rolling, with elevations from 480 feet above sea level in the downtown St. Louis City area to 550 feet at 400000 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500000 510 520 530 540 550 Figure 1. Study area population by 5, 000-foot grid squares 1960 census. Lambert Field 12 miles away, with a slight ridge rising to 600 feet in between. A flat area, known as the American Bottoms, approximately 10 miles wide in the Illinois portion of the Study area, is flanked to the east by a crescent-shaped bluff rising to an average of 640 feet above sea level. The elevation of the Mississippi River is about 400 feet above sea level. The area is generally free of major land surface features that would strongly influence airflow characteristics over the area. Operation In order to accomplish the Study purpose, the following activities, quoted from the project agreement, were to be undertaken during Phase I. "1. 2. 3. Assemble lists of air pollution complaints received by Conduct a preliminary inventory of air pollution sources Indicate the growth trends of the area, in regard to popu- 4. Compile and put in usable form existing information on air 5. |