Standards for Air Quality

California Air Resources Board (CARB) is a state agency which regulates and sets standards for air quality and emissions of various pollutants. 

This is becoming truer since the cheapest way of removing many low-boiling solvents from waste water has been by air stripping or evaporation from effluent ponds or interceptor surfaces. Such avoidable contributions to VOC will become increasingly unacceptable as standards for air quality are raised. This also applies to marine dumping since volatile solvents are mostly evaporated before degradation takes place. 

Compliance coal A coal or a blend of coals that meets sulfur dioxide emission standards for air quality without the need for FGD. 

The 1970 amendments established procedures under which EPA sets national standards for air quality, required a 90% reduction in emissions from new automobiles by 1975, established a program to require the best available control technology at major new sources of air pollution, established a program to regulate air toxics, and greatly strengthened federal enforcement authority. 

Provides air quality data analysis, source modeling and assessment, meteorological services, small business tccluiical assistance, a source m magcmcnt system, and quality assurance mid calibration standards for air monitoring... 

The NESHAPs were issued by U.S. EPA for air quality protection from HWCs. The standards implement a section of the CAA by requiring HWCs to meet HAP emission standards reflecting the application of the MACT.30... 

PI Make reference to ASHRAE, AIHA and ACGIH standards, and Air Quality in Office Buildings A Technical Guide 1995, PlLevel 1 guideline for residential homes,... 

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. 

Ryazanov, V.A. 1962. Sensory physiology as basis for air quality standards. Arch. Environ. Health 5 480-491. 

From the analysis of air pollutants and their effects, the NAAQS described above were developed by the US EPA based on requirements of the Clean Air Act. This was done by defining the criteria pollutants to measure air quality, and then by determining the acceptable concentrations under health protection criteria (known as primary standard) a secondary standard was also defined to protect public welfare and prevent environmental and property damage. The criteria pollutants for air quality thus selected were CO, Pb, N02, O3, PM]0, PM25, and... 

Based on the output of the conducted experiments, regional ecological standards for the quality of the atmosphere, with respect to the major air pollutants were developed, taking into account the risk for the land vegetation (trees and agricultural crops and plants) (Table... 

Rules and regulations for air quality control and/or solid waste disposal have been establ1sed for explosive In general regylatlons vary from state to state Pretreatment standards for discharge Hazardous waste thermal treatment Solid waste collection Solid waste storage and collection Fugitive dust... 

Written standards for the quality of the air including microbiological and particulate matter counts in the clean and aseptic areas, are available. Microbiological counts are taken at least once a day in aseptic areas, while aseptic filling and aseptic fabrication operations are carried out, and at appropriate intervals in areas where other fabrication takes place. 

Back where it all began, the increasing vehicle population and the increasing frequency of red-eye days led the California Legislature in 1959 to require the State Department of Public Health to develop and publish standards for the quality of air and for vehicle exhaust emissions before February 1, 1960 (14). These standards, which were adopted on December 4, 1959, were based on the judgement that in order to achieve desirable air quality standards, 80% reduction of hydrocarbon (HC) and 60% reduction of carbon monoxide (CO) emissions were needed. In terms of the test cycle which was also established, the standards were 275 ppm (volume) of hydrocarbons as hexane (or 0.165% as C] ) and 1.5% (volume) of CO. 

Establish and enforce national standards for air and water quality. 

The main sources of government environmental standards are OSHA and EPA. OSHA sets workplace standards. NIOSH makes recommendations on exposure Umits and compiles related helpfid information. EPA sets standards for air and water quality for the general pubUc. Other agencies, like CPSC and PDA, also set reference standards related to certain products. Por work environments, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists... 

The Clean Air Act mandates the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency to set national standards for the quality of air and limits for toxic emissions into the air. 

California air quality statutes, e.g., the 1988 California CAA Air Quality Districts established the CARB 1971- present 1970 CAA spelled out CA regulations for air quality as co-equal with Federal requirements states can use CA controls in certain cases in 1971, CA issued first air Pb standard in the United States. 

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