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The PAMZ AQM Program’s four major goals are to:
  • Provide data to address the current and future air quality concerns/issues of the zone’s various stakeholders.
  • Contribute to the body of information required by the scientific community and other users to provide a better understanding of certain pollutants including their sources, behaviors and effects.
  • Be dynamic and evolutionary in nature, capable of responding to changing or emerging concerns, issues, technologies, and developments in other management zones/programs.
  • Be effectively funded by the zone’s stakeholders while allowing PAMZ to research, develop and implement other programs and activities.

The primary intent of the PAMZ Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) Program is to provide high quality data required for the development and evaluation of strategies to address priority zonal air quality issues. PAMZ recognizes that the issues are very broad and that an AQM program alone can not entirely address them. One step in the process of developing, implementing and evaluating strategies to address the issues is the collection of data by a comprehensive AQM Program in order to understand the air quality within the region better. Informed decision-making concerning air quality issues requires information that has been derived from data that are complete, comprehensive and scientifically credible.