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Abstract
In 1979 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Commerce (DOC), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Department of Transportation (DOT) jointly awarded demonstration grants to eight urban areas to develop and test ways to coordinate economic development and air quality improvement. The funding period for the grantees participating in this Air Quality Technical Assistance Demonstration (AQTAD) program ended in September 1981. A comprehensive evaluation of the program will be completed in late 1981.
In the approximately two years since the first grant award, a great deal has been learned about how the needs of communities and industries might best be addressed in working toward local economic and air quality goals. The economic development and air quality problems facing the areas receiving AQTAD grants have been more clearly defined. Improved working relationships have developed among state and local agencies. Changes in the direction and emphasis of some of the activities of the grantees have also occurred. This paper presents interim results of the grants program, focusing on activities that have progressed far enough so that some evaluation of their potential success is possible. Where an urban area has made mid-course changes in grant activities, a preliminary assessment is made of the reasons for the change.