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A&Lo 4 a <br />Joint Canboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County <br />Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Reduction Plan <br />Request for Qualifications <br />The Town of Chapel Hill, the Town of Carrboro and Orange County seek <br />Requests for Qualifications to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction <br />Local Action Plan for Orange County and municipalities in the County. The three <br />local governments in Orange County are members of the International Council <br />for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and the Cities for Climate Protection <br />(CCP) Campaign. The local governments have committed to taking steps to <br />reduce greenhouse gas emissions, known to contribute to global warming, <br />through the development and implementation of a greenhouse gas emissions <br />reduction plan, Development of the plan will include the execution of a base <br />year emissions inventory. <br />Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the urbanized area of Orange County, which includes <br />the Town of Hillsborough, are members of the Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro <br />(DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) that also includes The City of <br />Durham, Durham County, and portions of Southern Granville and Northern <br />Chatham Counties. The MPO anticipates that, in April 2004, the Environmental <br />Protection Agency will designate areas within the metropolitan planning <br />boundaries and extending throughout Orange County as non - conforming ozone <br />areas under the new 8 -hour standards for air quality. The local governments in <br />Orange County anticipate that part or all of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions <br />Reduction Local Action Plan can be used as an effort to attain conformity with <br />the new federal air quality rules. <br />Project Description and Components <br />The purpose of this project is to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction <br />Local Action Plan that examines and inventories greenhouse emissions in Orange <br />County and develops measures to reduce those emissions. <br />The consultant will assist a Regional Inventory/Action Plan Working Group made <br />up of staff from the participating local governments in establishing objectives <br />and a timeline for action plan deliverables. Orange County will assume the <br />lead role for coordination. A portion of the project is being funded by a grant <br />from the regional Durham - Chopel Hill- Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization, and as such, transportation - related components and tasks are to <br />be separately accounted for. <br />The consultant will facilitate the formation of an Air Quality Advisory Group, to be <br />appointed by the local governments, to guide development of the plan. The <br />following process, as outlined in the attached Scope of Work, will meet <br />