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Early Action Compact Requirements Local, State and the EPA Commitments Local Areas Local areas hold primary responsibility for the development and implementation of the local control measures, as well as for maintaining communication with all parties, including: • Participate with State in drawing up the Compact, which embodies the requirements described in Sections A-F, including a time line for milestones. • Completing and signing by all parties of the Early Action Compact no later than December 31, 2002. • Completing and adopting the local measures of the early action plan so that these can be included as part of the SIP no later than December 31, 2004. • Notifying parties as soon as possible of issues and developments, which may impact performance and progress toward milestones. • _ Notifying parties as soon as possible if Compact milestones will be missed or have been missed. • Notifying parties as soon as possible if Compact modification/termination is to be requested. State The state will assist in the drafting of the Early Action Compact and will provide support to areas throughout the planning and implementation process, including: • Development of emission inventories, modeling process, trend analysis and quantification and comparison of control measures; • Necessary information on all Federal and State adopted emission reduction measures which affect the area; • Technical and strategic assistance, as appropriate, in the selection and implementation of control strategies; • Technical and planning assistance in developing and implementing processes to address the impact of emissions growth beyond the attainment date; • Maintenance of monitors and reporting and analysis of monitoring data; • Support for public education efforts; • Coordinate communication between local areas and the EPA to facilitate continuing the EPA review of local work; • Expeditious review of the locally developed plan, and if deemed adequate, propose modification of the SIP to adopt the early action plan; • Adoption of control measures into the SIP as expeditiously as possible. The final complete SIP revision must be completed, adopted, and submitted by the state to the EPA by 2004. EPA The EPA will recognize the local area's and State's commitment to voluntarily adopt an early, substantive, enforceable and scientifically-based attainment plan with early implementation of control measures by becoming a party to the Early Action Compact developed in conformance with this protocol.