Sec. 5. Sensor Monitoring

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Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall deploy at least 1,000 air quality sensors, that each cost $2,000 or less, in census tracts or counties with per capita death rates from COVID–19 that are at least 10 percent higher than the national average as of the date of enactment of this Act. Each sensor deployed pursuant to subsection

(a)shall measure ozone, PM2.5, or sulfur dioxide. The Administrator shall determine which pollutant or pollutants to monitor based on the pollution sources affecting the area in which the sensor is to be deployed. The Administrator shall give priority for deployment of sensors pursuant to subsection

(a)to census tracts or counties that— lack SLAMS for the pollutant or pollutants that sensors would be deployed to measure; have, or are substantially impacted by, significant emissions of ozone, PM2.5, or sulfur dioxide; and are not part of an area designated as nonattainment under the Clean Air Act for the air pollutant or pollutants to be monitored. The Administrator shall contract with qualified nonprofit organizations and State and local air pollution control agencies to execute deployment of the monitors in a manner that will ensure representative measurement of ambient air quality, and provide the public with real-time online access to the data collected. Not later than 6 months after one year of monitoring with sensors deployed pursuant to subsection

(a)has been completed, the Administrator shall determine whether data from the sensor or sensors deployed in a census track or county show air pollution levels during such year reached 98 percent of the national ambient air quality standard for any of the air pollutants described in subsection (b), and not later than 6 months after such determination, the Administrator shall ensure that Federal Reference Method monitors or Federal Equivalent Method monitors are installed and in operation within the census tract or county for each pollutant that reached or exceeded the 98 percent level. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $2,500,000.