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Show County's air is in the black 10 or 20 years unless we start doing something about it today." The commission's first order of business was to adopt five main clean air objectives. The first two will be accomplished this year. The first is to develop and recommend policies and plans that bring the Wasatch Front counties into attainment attain-ment with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The second is to develop long-term long-term strategies to maintain compliance com-pliance with attainment standards, given the projected growth in population and new industry. When the commission met July 19, they adopted a list of 146 recommendations. rec-ommendations. They will meet again in September to determine which to pursue initially. "Some of them carry big price tags," said Anderson. "Some will require changes in the law." Funding for the projects has not yet been determined "One thing that's inescapable is that ultimately it will be costly," said Anderson. "There really is no cheap solution." solu-tion." A "massive partnership" is what it will take to clean up the pollution, according to Anderson. "We need to acknowledge that clean air is not any one industry's or any one sector's sec-tor's problem. It's everyone's problem. prob-lem. ' ' With that in mind, citizens can opt for specific ways they can do their part in reducing air pollution. One of those ways is car pooling. Even if it were only once a week, it could make a difference. "That flies in the face of our lifestyle, though," said Anderson. Also not using wood-burning stoves and fireplaces during the winter months when frequent temperature inversions occur will reduce the haze. "Somebody will control it for us through increased regulations," said Anderson. "If (the citizens) don't do it, it will happen anyway. To me, voluntary seems the best way. ' ' By SARAH HANSEN Davis County is on the Governor's Gover-nor's Clean Air Commission's blacklist. Black seems suitable, because Davis County is blanketed in a haze. The governor's 32-member panel of leaders from business, industry, the scientific community, the public and the government spent last year investigating the state's options for reducing pollution. Their responsibility respon-sibility was to seek expertise and develop a clean air strategy that is more extensive than the current pi in. The commission's findings concluded con-cluded that Davis County is non-attainment non-attainment for ozone. Ozone is a mixture of volatile organic compounds, com-pounds, mainly from industry and automobiles, that when mixed with sunlight create a haze. The EPA sets emissions standards, stan-dards, and Davis County has failed to meet them. "In Davis County it's primarily a transportation problem," said Richard Anderson, Utah Energy Office Of-fice Director. The four counties with the largest pollution problems are Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Weber. According to the Wasatch Front Regional Council, in those four counties 1.3 million residents own 752,000 passenger pas-senger vehicles and make 3.5 million trips daily. Even with the tougher federal emission standards and local inspection in-spection maintenance programs that have significantly helped stabilize air quality degradation along the Wasatch Front for the past 15 years, the problem hasn't diminished. Within those same 15 years, the amount of travel has nearly doubled. Davis County's problems are further fur-ther compounded by the projection by the Wasatch Front Regional Council that population in Davis County will increase 100 percent between 1980 and 2005. "It's going to be tough," said Anderson. "If it's a problem today, it's going to be a worse problem in |