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Valley residents may face air-quality restrictions

The Arizona Daily Sun

PHOENIX -- Valley of the Sun residents would face new restrictions on use of leaf blowers, new laws to pave parking lots and limits on use of off-road vehicles under the terms of air-quality legislation approved Wednesday by House and Senate conferees.

The panel also agreed to force local governments to pave or "stabilize" dirt roads and shoulders, and to ban virtually all open fires during the summer. And developers would have to have an on-site dust control coordinator.

These restrictions would cover virtually all of Maricopa County as well as portions of Pinal County around Apache Junction.

But the provisions of SB 1552 also would, for the first time ever, force businesses and residents in the rest of Pinal County to buy cleaner burning -- and probably more expensive -- gasoline during the summer.

Posted by Editor at June 15, 2007 06:48 AM

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