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	Clean Air Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Clean Air Act describes one of a number of pieces of legislation relating to the reduction of smog and atmospheric pollution in general.
		The United States Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963, the Clean Air Act Amendment in 1966, the Clean Air Act Extension in 1970, and Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990.
		Additionally the Clean Air Act and state statutes have led to widespread use of atmospheric dispersion models, including point source models, roadway air dispersion models and aircraft air pollution models in order to analyze air quality impacts of proposed major actions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clean_Air_Act (368 words)

	Clean Air Act (1990) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1990 Clean Air Act is a piece of U.S. legislation relating to the reduction of smog and atmospheric pollution.
		It follows the Clean Air Act in 1963, the Clean Air Act Amendment in 1966, the Clean Air Act Extension in 1970, and the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977.
		Although the 1990 Clean Air Act is a federal law covering the entire country, the states do much of the work to carry out the Act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(1990) (656 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Clean Air Act (USA) (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 expanded the scope of the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments.
		Two major environmental policies, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the Superfund Program of 1980, were created as a means to remedy the land and air quality of America, two elements of the natural environment that are fundamental to the heath of all life in the nation.
		The Clean Air Act legislation was initially formulated in 1963 as a means to reverse the effects the decades of industrial growth, devoid of environmental concern, had produced.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Clean-Air-Act-%28USA%29-%281990%29 (686 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science» Air Resources Division-Air Quality Basics
		It should be based on a demonstration that the current or predicted deterioration of air quality will cause or contribute to a diminshment of the area's AQRV's, such as national significance, impairment of the structure and functioning of the area's ecosystem, or impairment of the quality of the visitor experience in the area.
		The EPA and the state and local governments are responsible for enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
		In a temperature inversion, air doesn't rise because it is trapped near the ground by a layer of warmer air above it.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /air/AQBasics/glossary.cfm (2700 words)

	Clean Air Act
		The Clean Air Act is a federal law that was implemented to assure all Americans clean air to breathe.
		The Clean Air Act has established guidelines and goals for industrial sources, power plants, and automobile manufactories to follow to decrease their amount of air pollution and emissions and to improve the clean air quality.
		Yet, research indicates that the public is largely unaware of this clean air progress and believes that the amount of clean air has decreased and the air quality is deteriorating.
	www.cleanairprogress.org /clean-air-pollution/clean-air-act.asp (318 words)

	clean air #1
		The Clean Air Act of 1990 addressed five main areas: air-quality standards, motor vehicle emissions and alternative fuels, toxic air pollutants, acid rain, and stratospheric ozone depletion.
		This act also recognized the dangers of motor vehicle exhaust, and it encouraged the development of emissions standards from these sources as well as from stationary sources.
		Interstate air pollution from the use of high sulfur coal and oil also needed to be reduced; therefore, this act encouraged the use of technology which removed sulfur from these fuels.
	www.ametsoc.org /AMS/sloan/cleanair/cleanairlegisl.html (1353 words)

	Clean Air Watch - Clean Air Act
		The Clean Air Act is a federal law covering the entire country, the states do much of the work to carry out the Act.
		For instance, an electric power plant may be covered by the acid rain, hazardous air pollutant and non-attainment (smog) parts of the Clean Air Act; the detailed information required by all these separate sections will be in one place--on the permit.
		The deadlines in the 1990 Clean Air Act were designed to be more realistic than dead- lines in previous versions of the law, so it is more likely that these deadlines will be met.
	www.cleanairwatch.org /CleanAirAct.htm (784 words)

	"Clear Skies" > Clean Air > Sierra Club
		Originally proposed in 2002, the Clear Skies initiative would weaken many parts of the Clean Air Act and would result in significantly fewer reductions of air pollutants than currently required.
		Clean Air Act programs already on the books could reduce SO2 pollution levels to 2 million tons by 2012.
		The EPA once estimated that enforcement of existing toxic air pollution protections in the Clean Air Act would limit mercury pollution to 5 tons per year by 2008.
	www.sierraclub.org /cleanair/clear_skies.asp (610 words)

	CLEAN AIR ACT
		The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments are a landmark effort to reduce air pollution through a variety of instruments including the use of a market based system of tradeable pollution "permits" under Title IV and Title V. Recently, however, enforcement has lagged because of Congressional resistance.
		Air Quality Criteria Documents for sulfur oxides and particulates were issued two years after the passage of the bill and criteria documentation for HCs, CO, and oxidants were not ready until 1970 and NOx criteria were not issued until 1971.
		Clean air legislation languished almost untouched during the Reagan administration even though pollution continued to be a significant voter concern.
	www.american.edu /TED/clean.htm (5335 words)

	Clean Air Act
		Clean Air Act (42 USC 7401-7661; P.L. 104-59 and P.L. The majority of the amendments to the Clean Air Act were enacted in 1977 and are known as the Clean Air Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-95; 91 Stat.
		The primary objective of the Clean Air Act is to establish Federal standards for various pollutants from both stationary and mobile sources and to provide for the regulation of polluting emissions via state implementation plans.
		In addition, the amendments are designed to prevent significant deterioration in certain areas where air quality exceeds national standards, and to provide for improved air quality in areas which do not meet Federal standards ("nonattainment" areas).
	www.fws.gov /laws/lawsdigest/clenair.html (265 words)

	The Clean Air Act
		The Clean Air Act is the federal law designed to make sure that all Americans have air that is safe to breathe.
		The Clean Air Act requires that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set national health-based air quality standards to protect against common pollutants including ozone (smog), carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, lead, and particulate soot.
		Congress passed the core provisions of the Clean Air Act in 1970.
	www.cleanairtrust.org /cleanairact.html (291 words)

	Clean Air Act 1993 (c. 11)
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		It should be noted that the right to reproduce the text of Acts of Parliament does not extend to the Queen's Printer imprints which should be removed from any copies of the Act which are issued or made available to the public.
		Braille copies of this Act can also be purchased at the same price as the print edition by contacting TSO Customer Services on 0870 600 5522 or e-mail:customer.services@tso.co.uk.
	www.hmso.gov.uk /acts/acts1993/Ukpga_19930011_en_1.htm (619 words)

	Welcome to the Clean Air Act Information Network
		A characterization of the air emissions associated with the petroleum refining process, and the significance of the environmental problem which EPA intends to address through regulation are assessed.
		During the air oxidation reactor and distillation processes, the waste gas stream is deficient in air.
		Having a large amount of excess air (i.e., in excess of the required stoichiometric amounts) may be costly, but any mixture within the flammability limits, on either the fuel-rich or fuel-lean side of the stoichiometric mixture, is considered a fire hazard as a feed stream to the incinerator.
	www.envinfo.com /caain/mact/petria.html (18708 words)

	Clean Air Act
		The Clean Air Act (CAA) (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
		The Act was amended in 1977 primarily to set new goals (dates) for achieving attainment of NAAQS since many areas of the country had failed to meet them by the required deadline.
		The 1990 amendments to the CAA in large part were intended to meet unaddressed or insufficiently addressed problems such as acid rain, ground-level ozone, stratospheric ozone depletion, and air toxics.
	www.mms.gov /eppd/compliance/caa (249 words)

	GreenTruck: The Clean Air Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Clean Air Act is the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from area, stationary, and mobile sources.
		The act was amended in 1977 primarily to set new dates for achieving attainment of NAAQS since many areas of the country had failed to meet the deadlines.
		The 1990 amendments to the act were intended, in large part, to meet additional concerns such as acid rain, ground-level ozone, stratospheric ozone depletion and air toxics.
	www.greentruck.com /air_emissions/clean_air_act.html (166 words)

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		Throughout the history of the Clean Air Act, questions have been raised as to whether the health and environmental benefits of air pollution control justify the costs incurred by industry, taxpayers, and consumers.
		The "no-control" scenario reflects expected conditions under the assumption that, absent the passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act, the scope, form, and stringency of air pollution control programs would have remained as they were in 1970.
		The direct benefits of the Clean Air Act from 1970 to 1990 include reduced incidence of a number of adverse human health effects, improvements in visibility, and avoided damage to agricultural crops.
	www.net.org /cleanair/cost?PROACTIVE_ID=cecfc9cbccc6cecfcfc5cecfcfcfc5cecec9c9cdc8cbcfc9cdc5cf (863 words)

	Clean Air Main Page - Sierra Club
		Since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, air quality has improved in many regions of our country.
		Clean air is a basic right for all of us, and is especially important for our children's health.
		Our nation's Clean Air Act requires the EPA to protect the health of the American people and our environment from air pollution.
	www.sierraclub.org /cleanair (267 words)

	Environmental Resources for Teachers - History of the Clean Air Act
		An independent study commissioned by the Foundation for Clean Air Progress found that America’s air is dramatically cleaner and healthier today than it was 30 years ago.
		Using the most recent EPA data available, experts have determined that four of the six most serious pollutants identified by the Clean Air Act of 1970 are no longer being released into the air at unhealthy levels.
		Clearly, these results are directly related to the Clean Air Act of 1970 and its subsequent amendments, combined with the vigilance of energy utilities, power generators, transportation companies and highway associations.
	www.cleanairprogress.org /classroom/cleanairact_text.asp (714 words)

	The Environmental Literacy Council - Clean Air Act
		At the National level, most air quality regulations in the United States are promulgated and enforced by three federal agencies: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OHSA), and the Mining Safety and Health Administration.
		For a better understanding of the regulatory enforcement relationship between federal and state governments, see this explanation by the U.S. Although the first Clean Air Act was passed in 1963, the current national air pollution program is based on the 1970 version of the law.
		States and local governments that are not in compliance with EPA air quality standards may be forced to take costly measures to reduce pollutants, including imposing stricter standards for emissions from motor vehicles, requiring the use of alternative clean fuels, and placing additional controls on industries and business.
	www.enviroliteracy.org /article.php/6.html (865 words)

	NRDC Press Archive: Bush Administration to Gut Clean Air Act
		Under this scheme, all of the Clean Air Act violations the Justice Department is prosecuting at nine Tennessee Valley Authority power plants and those at a recently convicted Ohio Edison plant would have been allowed, according to NRDC.
		The upgrades at those plants increased air pollution by hundreds of thousands of tons, but because they cost less than 20 percent of the replacement value of the process units, TVA and Ohio Edison would not have had to install modern pollution controls under the new rule.
		The Clean Air Act's new source review provision was instituted in 1977 to reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other large industrial facilities.
	www.nrdc.org /media/pressreleases/030822.asp (923 words)

	11/18/99 -- Benefits of Clean Air Act amendments tallied (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The report is the most comprehensive and extensive assessment of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments ever conducted and was the subject of extensive peer review by economists, scientists and public health experts, according to the EPA.
		The study released Tuesday is the second in a series of EPA cost/benefit reports to Congress examining the effects of the Clean Air Act on the U.S. economy, public health and the environment.
		The study, The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, is issued under Section 812 of the Clean Air Act Amendments, a provision requiring the EPA to periodically assess the effect of the Clean Air Act on the public health, economy and environment of the country.
	www.climateark.org /articles/1999/benclen.htm (667 words)

	Clean Air Act
		Title V of the CAA Amendments established a federal permitting program, similar to the Clean Water Act permitting program, which is to be administered by the states.
		The CAA Amendments eliminated the distinction between new and existing sources; all major sources are now required to have an operating permit.
		The CAA Amendments allow the Administrator to impose administrative penalties of up to $25,000/day for the violation of any requirement, prohibition, permit, rule, or order (up to a maximum penalty of $200,000 in most instances).
	homer.ornl.gov /oepa/laws/caa.html (1379 words)

	Clean Air Act - Clean Water Partners \| Environmental Lawyer \| Environmental Law Firm \| Toxic Tort Attorney
		The aim of the Clean Air Act is to monitor safety levels of airborne pollutants, and to initiate regulations and controls to protect the air from dangerous levels of pollution.
		The Clean Air Act program is overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency, and it is the Agency’s responsibility to monitor air quality standards as well as implement the necessary regulations to minimise air pollution.
		The original Clean Air Act of 1977 was designed to reduce the levels and risks of air pollution, such as ozone, carbon monoxide and particulate matter.
	www.cleanwaterpartners.org /clean-air-act.html (478 words)

	Clean Air Act
		Airborne pathogens, such as the bacterium that causes Legionnaire's Disease and the virus responsible for avian flu, as well as putative biological agents that may be released deliberately, have led to an increased awareness of the need for sophisticated air purification.
		The researchers are now working towards treating larger volumes of flowing air in order to meet industrial requirements.
		Nevertheless, the system does demonstrate for the first time the decontamination of a bacteria-containing air stream by photocatalysis at room temperature.
	www.reactivereports.com /45/45_4.html (347 words)

	Understanding Clean Air Act
		The county Health Department has been relying on the bucket brigade to monitor for benzene and acrylonitrile because of the way the Clean Air Act breaks down responsibility for identifying chemicals in the air.
		The act requires the enforcing agency to control these by setting and enforcing standards for the maximum emission amounts at the source of emission.
		The act also provides that after seven years, the federal government will examine the residual risk from these chemicals.
	www.post-gazette.com /neigh_north/20030409nairside0409p7.asp (293 words)

	Bush Touting Plan to Weaken the Clean Air Act
		This week, the Bush Administration is touting a plan they say will cut air pollution from power plants over the next 15 years.
		The EPA estimates that enforcement of existing toxic air pollution protections in the Clean Air Act will limit mercury pollution to 5 tons per year by 2008.
		Clean Air Act programs reduce SO2 pollution levels to 2 million tons by 2012.
	www.sierraclub.org /pressroom/releases/pr2003-09-16.asp (698 words)

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