Visibility
Regional Planning Organizations
Because the pollutants that lead to regional haze can originate from sources located across broad geographic areas, EPA has encouraged the States and Tribes across the U.S. to address visibility impairment from a regional perspective. Today, EPA provides funding to five regional planning organizations to address regional haze and related issues. These organizations will first evaluate technical information to better understand how their States and Tribes impact national park and wilderness areas (Class I areas) across the country, and they will then pursue the development of regional strategies to reduce emissions of particulate matter and other pollutants leading to regional haze.EPA annually sponsors meetings of the Regional Planning Organizations' (RPOs') national work groups. Participants are members of work groups within each RPO.
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The five regional planning organizations are: | |
Western Regional Air Partnership
(WRAP).![]() |
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Central Regional
Air Planning Association (CENRAP). ![]() |
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Midwest Regional Planning Organization (Midwest RPO).
Affiliated with the Lake
Michigan Air Directors Consortium (LADCO). ![]() |
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Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Visibility
Union (MANE - VU). ![]() |
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The Visibility Improvement
State and Tribal Association of the Southeast (VISTAS) ![]() Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. |