Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Detailed Summary of Titles

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990 - Air
 

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Page 26 - major source" means any stationary source or group of stationary sources located within a contiguous area and under common control that emits or has the potential to emit considering controls, in the aggregate, 10 tons per year or more of any hazardous air pollutant or 25 tons per year or more of any combination of hazardous air pollutants.
Page 1 - Consideration of individual, as well as complex mixtures of, air pollutants and their chemical transformations in the atmosphere. (2) Establishment of a national network to monitor, collect, and compile data with quantification of certainty in the status and trends of air emissions, deposition, air quality, surface water quality, forest condition, and visibility impairment, and to ensure the comparability of air quality data collected in different States and obtained from different nations. (3) Development...
Page 12 - ... penalty shall not be subject to review. Any person who fails to pay on a timely basis the amount of an assessment of a civil penalty as described in the first sentence of this...
Page 3 - The Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences may conduct a program of basic research to identify, characterize, and quantify risks to human health from air pollutants. Such research shall be conducted primarily through a combination of university and medical school-based grants, as well as through intramural studies and contracts. (2) The Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences shall conduct a program for the education and training of physicians...
Page 2 - ... maintaining, programs for the prevention and control of air pollution or implementation of national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards.
Page 3 - ... with the Secretary of Energy, the Administrator shall develop a list of chemicals and a schedule for field testing at the Facility. Analysis of a minimum of 10 chemicals per year shall be carried out, with the selection of a minimum of 2 chemicals for field testing each year. Highest priority shall be given to those chemicals that would present the greatest potential risk to human health as a result of an accidental release— (A) from a fixed site; or (B) related to the transport of such chemicals.
Page 1 - ... is located on the Outer Continental Shelf or in or on waters above the Outer Continental Shelf. Such activities include, but are not limited to, platform and drill ship exploration, construction, development, production, processing, and transportation. For purposes of this subsection, emissions from any vessel servicing or associated with an OCS source, including emissions while at the OCS source or en route to or from the OCS source within 25 miles of the OCS source, shall be considered direct...
Page 1 - ... impairment, and to ensure the comparability of air quality data collected in different States and obtained from different nations. (3) Development of improved methods and technologies for sampling, measurement, monitoring, analysis, and modeling to increase understanding of the sources of ozone percursors, ozone formation, ozone transport, regional influences on urban ozone, regional ozone trends, and interactions of ozone with other pollutants.
Page 2 - Nothing in this [Act] constitutes an infringement on the existing authority of counties and cities to plan or control land use, and nothing in this...

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