Subject: 18766 Recognizing J.Wayne Cropp/Clean Air
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 1990 08:38:00 -0500


                               RESOLUTION NO. 18766
                  
                  
                   A RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING J. WAYNE CROPP FOR
                   HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CLEAN AIR
                   ENVIRONMENT FOR THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA AND
                   AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A JOINT
                   RESOLUTION TO THIS EFFECT.
                  
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 WHEREAS, Mr. J. Wayne Cropp has been of exemplary
       service to this community as a staff member of the Chattanooga-
       Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau from August, 1977, 
to
       October, 1990, and has served as Director of the agency from
       October, 1979, to October, 1990; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, during this period Mr. J. Wayne Cropp has
       displayed outstanding vision, leadership, and dedication to the
       task of improving local air quality while maintaining sensitivity 

       to the economic viability of the community; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, Mr. J. Wayne Cropp has shown himself to be a
       man of consistency, fairness, sensitivity, and insight who has
       helped to foster a high level of respect for the agency as well 
as
       for the environmental improvement that has occurred in the
       community; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, Mr. J. Wayne Cropp contributed significantly to
       the local implementation of the 1977 Amendment to the Clean Air
       Act whereby effective plans for attaining national air quality
       standards for particulate, ozone, and lead were instituted and by 

       which means an acceleration in the clean up of the ambient air in 

       Hamilton County occurred; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, under the directorship of Mr. J. Wayne Cropp,
       one of the first ambient air toxics ordinances in the nation was
       drafted locally in 1981 and 1982; the most in depth ambient air
       toxics and criteria air pollution study ever conducted in the
       State of Tennessee and one of the most comprehensive in the 
nation
       at that time was conducted in the Piney Woods section of
       Chattanooga in 1984 and 1985; and a multi-year development plan
       for the control of air toxics locally has been instituted
       beginning in 1986 and extending into the present; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, Mr. J. Wayne Cropp has aided in the development
       of local indoor air pollution expertise through staff training 
and
       agency involvement in projects such as the public housing indoor
       nitrogen dioxide study in 1987 and 1988 and the State radon 
survey
       in 1987; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, during Mr. J. Wayne Cropp's tenure as Director,
       a comprehensive medical waste incineration ordinance was
       implemented in 1989 and all permitted medical waste incinerators
       within Hamilton County have been brought into compliance; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, though in the 1960's one of the most polluted
       cities in the country for total suspended particulate, 
Chattanooga
       was officially re-designated in 1984 as meeting the national
       health standard for total suspended particulate and since that
       time has continued to improve such that in 19889 particulate
       concentrations were much better than required to meet the health
       standard and almost halved from what they were when Mr. Cropp
       became Bureau Director; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, also during Mr. J. Wayne Cropp's tenure as
       Bureau Director, Chattanooga was officially re-designated in 1989 

       as in compliance with the national standard for ozone, a 
pollutant
       standard for which approximately 100 U.S. metropolitan areas are
       still considered out of compliance; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, Chattanooga and Hamilton County are now
       officially in compliance with all national ambient air quality
       health standards established by the federal government and as 
such
       constitute one of a small minority of metropolitan areas in the
       nation so designated; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, Mr. J. Wayne Cropp has also contributed to the
       improvement of air quality across the country through his
       participation in the national Association of Local Air Pollution
       Control Officials, which represents 125 air pollution programs in 

       37 states, where he held various offices including president and, 

       more recently, chairman of the air toxics committee and by which
       he has helped to shape national air quality legislation by such
       endeavors as testifying before congressional subcommittees and
       authoring position papers on Clean Air Act legislation;
       	    	 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
       THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That the City of Chattanooga, 

       along with the County of Hamilton and the Chattanooga-Hamilton
       County Air Pollution Control Board to hereby unanimously express
       their sincere appreciation and gratitude to Mr. J. Wayne Cropp 
for
       his diligent and effectual contribution to the quest for clean
       air, the achievement of a higher quality of life for the 
residents
       of Chattanooga and Hamilton County, and the ascendancy of this
       community's national reputation for environmental improvement;
       	    	 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Mayor be and is hereby
       authorized to execute a facsimile of this Resolution to recognize 

       Mr. J. Wayne Cropp for the exemplary services he has contributed
       to the City of Chattanooga, Hamilton County and the Chattanooga-
       Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Board.
      
       ADOPTED:  9/18/90
      
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