The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall provide technical assistance and support to any municipality that purchases, leases or is provided the use of air monitoring equipment for the purpose of establishing an air quality baseline in such municipality and determining any effect on such baseline by the Cricket Valley Energy Center in the state of New York. Such technical assistance and support shall include, but not be limited to, the provision of information on best practices for the establishment of such baseline, guidance on the siting and placement of such air quality monitors, information concerning the maintenance and practices required to assure the accuracy of such monitors, proposed schedules for data retrieval from such monitors during the calendar year and review of and conclusion from the results of such data retrieval.
(P.A. 19-29, S. 1.)