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The Ambient Air Monitoring Program assesses air quality. This program collects air samples through a network of monitoring stations and analyzes them in order to:

• prove that an air basin or area has met the mandatory air quality standards or that progress is being made to meet them by a certain time
• activate emergency control procedures to prevent or dispel dangerous air pollution levels
• track pollution trends throughout a region, including rural areas
• provide a research database to evaluate the effects of various plans for urban development, land-use, and transportation on air pollution control
• help develop and evaluate ways of getting rid of pollution
• serve as the basis for various predictive models

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