445B.510 - Commission may require program for designated area.

445B.510  Commission may require program for designated area.

1.  If the Commission finds that:

(a) The location, character or extent of particular concentrations of population or sources of air contaminant;

(b) Geographic, topographic or meteorological considerations; or

(c) Any combination of these factors,

Ê makes impracticable the maintenance of appropriate levels of air quality without an areawide air pollution control program, it shall after a public hearing define the area so affected.

2.  If an areawide air pollution control program is not established by cooperative or interlocal agreement within a time specified by the Commission, the Commission shall establish such a program, which shall be a charge on the counties, and may supersede any local program within the area.

(Added to NRS by 1971, 1200)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 445.551)