Bill > H968

This bill aims to improve air quality in the airport environmental justice communities near the General Lawrence Logan Airport in Boston and Winthrop. The key provisions include: 1) Requiring the Massachusetts Port Authority to conduct an environmental risk assessment of the health impacts of the airport, including air quality monitoring, air quality modeling, time activity exposure analysis, and health association surveys. 2) Amending state law to require the Department of Environmental Protection to monitor and report on ultrafine particulate matter at air monitoring locations, in addition to other pollutants. 3) Establishing an "Airport Community Air Pollution Control District" within a 2-mile radius of the airport, and creating a grant program to help schools in this district purchase high-efficiency air purifiers, with the Massachusetts Port Authority subsidizing 80% of the costs. The bill is designed to better understand and address the air quality and health impacts on the surrounding environmental justice communities caused by operations at the General Lawrence Logan Airport.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H968