Local Authority Air Pollution Control

Details of any proposed release of prescribed substances and an assessment of the environmental consequences of emissions. (Eor local authorities air pollution controlled processes this applies only to atmospheric emissions.)... 

The EPA (1990) established a system of Local Authority Air Pollution Control (LAAPC) requiring the competent authorities to ensure that smaller air pollution sources meet specific emission limits. In 1997 Central Government published the National Air Quality Strategy, setting air quality objectives for local authorities up to 2005. 

Smaller emission sources under air pollution control by local authorities for the first time Set standards for in service emissions of CO and hydrocarbons to be included in the MOT test Harmonised procedure for monitoring, exchange of information and public warnings for ozone New statutory framework for local air quality... 

Emission standards are govemmentally promulgated limits on the emission of a pollutant from a process. There are limits on the emission of specific gaseous, vapor, and particulate pollutants from any process and on their emission from specific processes. Some countries (e.g., the United States) officially promulgate and publish their emission standards for new sources for a number of processes and for hazardous pollutants from ary process (Table XI). In the United States, emission standards for existing sources are promulgated and published by state and local air pollution control authorities. Some countries (e.g., Russia) do not promulgate or publish emission standards. 

Part 1 Integrated pollution control by HM Inspectorate of Pollution, and air pollution control by Local Authorities... 

Part B processes, which may be classified as those from less polluting industries with only emissions released to air being subject to regulatory control. For such processes local authorities are the enforcing body through the Environmental Health Officers and the system is known as Local Air Pollution Control (LAPC). 

NSR permits are most often issued by the state, but they can also be issued by local air pollution control agencies. EPA may also issue permits. State and local air pollution control agencies may run their own air pollution permitting programs if they are approved by EPA in the State Implementation Plan (SIP) or they may be delegated the authority to issue permits on behalf of EPA. 

This is to be supplemented by extending local authority control of air pollution to cover a second tier of less polluting processes, but incinerators for waste chemicals or waste plastic arising from their manufacture and other waste incinerators, dependent upon size, are subject to both the BATNEEC and BPEO requirements under the IPC regime. 

Congress attempted to correct that deficiency and other air pollution problems in a series of amendments to the 1963 act passed in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1969. The 1965 amendments, for example, authorized the secretary of health, education and welfare to establish nationwide standards for automobile exhaust emissions. This legislation and later amendments also authorized the surgeon general to study the effects of air pollutants on human health, expanded local air quality programs, set compliance deadlines for meeting new air quality standards, established air quality control regions (AQCRs), and authorized research on low emission fuels and more fuel-efficient automobiles. 

The Mulford-Carrell Act of 1967 dissolved the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board in California and created the Air Resources Board that was provided with broad powers and authority and with the ultimate responsibility of controlling air pollution in California. The California Air Resources Board divided the State into eleven air basins, areas with similar meteorological, topographical, and air pollution problems. Ambient-air quality standards were adopted which apply to all of these basins. The enforcing of these standards is still primarily a function of local go /emment, but emission control programs of local agencies have to be s ibmitted to and approved by the State Board. 

Operating permits are legally enforceable documents that permitting authorities issue to air pollution sources after the source has begun to operate. Most large sources and some smaller sources of air pollution are required to obtain a Title V permit which comes from Title V of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990. Most title V permits are issued by state and local permitting authorities. Permits include pollution-control requirements from... 

To prevent the pollution from emissions to air, land or water from scheduled processes the concept of Integrated Pollution Control has been introduced. Authorisation to operate the relevant processes must be obtained from the enforcing authority which, for the more heavily polluting industries, is tire Environment Agency. Control for pollution to air from the less heavily polluting processes is through the local authority. 

Control Technique Guidelines (CTG) EPA documents designed to assist state and local pollution authorities to achieve and maintain air quality standards for certain sources (e.g., organic emissions from solvent metal cleaning known as degreasing) through reasonably available control technologies (RACT). 

State Implementation Plans (SIPs) are federally approved plans developed by state (or local) air quality management authorities to attain and maintain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Generally, these SIPs are a state s (local) air quality rules and regulations that are considered an acceptable control strategy once approved by the USEPA. The purpose of SIPs is to control the amoimt and types of pollution for any given area or region of the United States. 

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