The state board shall coordinate and collect research data on air pollution, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(a) Research relating to specific problems in the following areas:
- (1) Motor vehicle emissions control, including alternative propulsion systems, cleaner burning fuels, and improved motor vehicle pollution control devices.
- (2) Control of nonvehicular emissions.
- (3) Control of specific contaminants to meet ambient air quality standards.
- (4) Atmospheric chemistry and physics.
- (5) Effects of air pollution on human health and comfort, plants and animals, and reduction in visibility.
- (6) Instrumentation development.
- (7) Economic and ecological analysis.
- (8) Mathematical model development.
- (9) Trends in atmospheric quality throughout the state.
- (10) Alternatives to agricultural burning.
- (b) The consequences of various alternative solutions to specific air pollution problems.
- (c) The identification of knowledge gaps.