Air Pollution Control Act

The Clean Air Act was originally passed in 1963 and was primarily a source of government funding for air pollution control. A follow-up law in 1965, the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act, regulated the emissions from new vehicles and was the first action taken by the government to control air pollution. The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 and 1977 established what we now consider to be the true goals of the CAA. 

The first US federal legislation dealing with controlling air pollution at its source was Public Law 84-159, the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955. The legislation granted 5 million annually for five years for research... 

We live in a new environmental era. The number and complexity of environmental regulations have grown dramatically in the past two decades and will continue through the turn of the century. In the United States, the first environmental regulation affecting the quality of air came with the Federal Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, then with the Clean Air Act of 1963. The subsequent ones include the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1965, the Air Quality Act of 1967, and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970. 

Ward, T. E., M. R. Midgett, G. D. Rives, N. F. Cole, and D. E. Wagoner. 1988. Evaluation of methodology for measurement of toxic metals in incinerator stack emissions. Proceedings of the Air Pollution Control Act Annual Meeting, cited in Chem. Abstr. CA 111(26) 238726. 

The U.S. Clean Air Act (CAA) was first enacted by Congress in 1963 [77 Stat. 392 42 U.S.C. 7401]. The statute was intended for air pollution in general, and from its beginning attempted to address general pollution and its components as emitted from point sources—steel mills, factories, foundries, and fossil-fueled electric power plants, among others—and mobile sources, particularly autos and commercial vehicles. Several years later, the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1966 [PL 90—148 81 Stat. 485] codified the distinctions in source emissions adding to overall air pollution, stationary versus mobile. 

Sources Subject to Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Sources subject to PSD regulations (40 CFR, Sec. 52.21, Aug. 7, 1980) are major stationary sources and major modifications located in attainment areas and unclassified areas. A major stationaiy source was defined as any source hsted in Table 25-4 with the potential to emit 100 tons per year or more of any pollutant regulated under the Clean Air Act (CAA) or any other source with the potential to emit 250 tons per year or more of any CAA pollutant. The potential to emit is defined as the maximum capacity to emit the pollutant under apphcable emission standards and permit conditions (after apphcation of any air pollution control equipment) excluding secondaiy emissions. A major modification is defined as any physical or operational change of a major stationaiy source producing a significant net emissions increase of any CAA pollutant (see Table 25-5). 

STAPPA/ALAPCO, 1996. State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials (STAPPA/ALAPCO), "Controlling Particulate Matter Under the Clean Air Act A Menu of Options," STAPPA/ALAPCO, Washington, DC, July, 1996. 

Clean Air Act Originally passed in 1963, our current national air pollution control program is based on the 1970 version of the law. Substantial revisions were made by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. See also Clean Air Act pages. 

Personnel. More than any other area, we are often asked "How many people has your corporation added due to TSCA " I don t know of anyone who has a concise answer to this question. Complicating the situation is the fact that the 1960 s and 1970 s saw a number of environmental and health laws go into effect the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, TSCA, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, to mention the major ones. This mixture of acts, with some similarities of purpose, developing within a time span of 10-15 years, has made a variety of similar demands. It is not easy at this point to attribute the addition of staff support personnel to an individual law such as TSCA. The same observation is applicable to all corporate resources which have felt the effects of TSCA however, in order to... 

Clean Air Act (CAA) was first passed in 1955 as the Air Pollution Control, Research and Technical Assistance Act and amended in 1963 to become the CAA. A more significant statute was passed in 1970 and amended in 1977 and 1990. It provides EPA authority to regulate air pollutants from a wide variety of sources including automobiles, electric power plants, chemical plants, and other industrial sources. 

Air pollution often travels from its source in one state to another state. In many metropolitan areas, people live in one state and work or shop in another air pollution from cars and trucks may spread throughout the interstate area. The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 provide for interstate commissions on air pollution control, which are to develop regional strategies for cleaning up air pollution. The 1990 amendments also cover pollution that originates in nearby countries, such as Mexico and Canada, and drifts into the United States as well as pollution from the United States that reaches Canada and Mexico. 

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