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7 i ` r ,' < `. i Joint Cctirboro, Chapel Hid and Orange County Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Reduction Plan Request for Qual~ca6ons The Town of Chapel Hill, the Town of Carrboro and Orange County seek Requests for Qualifications to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local Action Plan for Orange County and municipalities in the County. The three local governments in Orange County are members of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign. The local governments have committed to taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, known to contribute to global warming, through the development and implementation of a greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan. Development of the plan will include the execution of a base year emissions inventory. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the urbanized area of Orange County, which includes the Town of Hillsborough, are members of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) that also includes The City of Durham, Durham County, and portions of Southern Granville and Northern Chatham Counties. The MPO anticipates that, in April 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency will designate areas within the metropolitan planning boundaries and extending throughout Orange County as non-conforming ozone areas under the new 8-hour standards for air quality. The local governments in Orange County anticipate that part or all of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local Action Plan can be used as an effort to attain conformity with the new federal air quality rules. Project Description and Components The purpose of this project is to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local Action Plan that examines and inventories greenhouse emissions in Orange County and develops measures to reduce those emissions. The consultant will assist a Regional Inventory/Action Plan Working Group made up of staff from the participating local governments in establishing objectives and a timeline for action plan deliverables. Orange County will assume the lead role for coordination. The consultant will facilitate the formation of an Air Quality Advisory Group, to be appointed by the local governments, to guide development of the plan. The following process, as outlined in the attached Scope of Work, will meet requirements for fulfilling the local governments' commitments to ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection Campaign: Inventory greenhouse gas emissions during a selected base year;