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<br />Joint Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County <br />Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Reduction Plan <br />Scope of Work <br />Purpose: <br />The purpose of this project is to develop a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Local <br />Action Plan that examines and inventories greenhouse gas emissions in Orange County <br />and develops measures to reduce those emissions. <br />Process: <br />The process will correlate with objectives of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2025 Long <br />Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) for achieving air quality conformity for ozone. The <br />following process will meet requirements for fulfilling the local governments' <br />commitments to the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) <br />Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCP. <br />1. Inventory greenhouse gas emissions during a selected base year; <br />2. Forecast greenhouse gas emissions over a selected planning period up to <br />a target year; <br />3. Facilitate the Air Quality Advisory Group in selecting a Reduction Target; <br />4. Identify actions that the local governments, business and industry, and the <br />community could take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during the <br />planning period; <br />5. Develop the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Action Plan that <br />includes: <br />• Overview of implementation strategies included in the 2025 LRTP <br />• Existing measures <br />• Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions reductions of existing <br />measures <br />• Potential new measures and cost estimates of implementation <br />• Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions reductions of potential <br />new measures <br />• Recommendation of measures to achieve greenhouse gas emissions <br />target. <br />