The agreement provides funding under the inflation reduction act to the ohio environmental protection agency for the expansion and enhancement of their air monitoring activities

Specifically, the recipient will purchase various monitoring equipment, add an additional monitoring site, expand monitoring, and upgrade existing monitoring and support equipment.activities:the activities include purchasing ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter 2.5 and 10 monitors, and a lead sampler to broaden oepa's monitoring network.subrecipient:oepa will grant subawards to their local air agencies; akron, cleveland, canton, portsmouth, and toledo. Four of the subawards will go to purchasing equipment that will be used to monitor ozone and various other pollutants. In addition, akron will use funds for establishing a new PM2.5 site. Canton will use their funds to purchase site materials and contract site maintenance for their lead monitoring site. Outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include the purchase and upgrades of monitoring equipment. The expected outcomes include increased air quality monitoring in disadvantaged communities, increasing access to information and tools of monitoring data to increase public awareness, expanding oepa's monitoring network to include information from previously unmonitored areas. The intended beneficiaries include ohio residents.