A current guide to one of the most complicated and extensive pieces of environmental legislation ever written, this broad and balanced perpective to the statute that brings together the experience of over two dozen private and public sector.
Revised to include several recent and important Clean Air Act developments, this completely updated fifth edition of the Clean Air Handbook provides you with a broad overview of all the complex regulatory requirements of the Act and its amendments. In addition to offering an introduction to the history and structure of the Clean Air Act, the most complex piece of environmental legislation ever enacted, the Handbook examines the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to implement the Act. Those efforts include EPA's initiatives to impose emission reduction requirements through new air quality standards adopted in 1997 and made more stringent in 2006 and EPA's rules and guidance implementing the Title I nonattainment program and ongoing federal efforts to address interstate pollution issues. The Handbook also includes summaries of EPA's rules for state-administered Title V operating permit programs and the key rules promulgated by EPA to implement the Title IV acid rain program.
This easy-to-read guide links the regulatory and technical aspectsof air quality compliance in one self-contained volume. This unique handbook explains air quality compliance in plainlanguage, free of legalese. Russell E. Erbes draws on twenty yearsof industrial air quality compliance experience as he clarifies thecomplex regulatory and technical issues facing industry in the wakeof the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. He guides the reader througha labyrinth of demanding regulations, rising costs, and complexprocedures. A Practical Guide to Air Quality Compliance, Second Edition, sortsthrough requirements and helps environmental professionals managecompliance effectively and efficiently--whatever the needs of theirfacilities. Filled with real-world examples that illustrate bothproblems and solutions, it features: * Unwritten applicability guidelines known only by technicalexperts in air compliance. * Tips on obtaining permits and variances, and monitoring andensuring compliance. * Appendices that explain terms, list air toxins and potentialhealth risks, and more. * Coverage of Title V programs, acid rain provisions, stratosphericozone protection, atmospheric dispersion modeling, and riskassessment methodologies. * A chapter on the new criminal and civil penalties fornoncompliance. * A survey of the major differences among federal, state, and localrequirements. For environmental managers and engineers at industrial facilities,environmental consultants and attorneys, and professionals inregulatory agencies, this practical guide removes the guessworkfrom the air quality compliance process.
Revised to include several recent and important Clean Air Act developments, including the Clear Skies Initiative, this completely updated Handbook provides you with a broad overview of all the complex regulatory requirements of the Act and its amendments. In addition to offering an introduction to the history and structure of the Clean Air Act, the most complex piece of environmental legislation ever enacted, the Handbook examines the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to implement the Act. Those efforts include EPA's initiatives to impose emission reduction requirements through new air quality standards adopted in 1997 and made more stringent in 2006 and EPA's rules and guidance implementing the Title I nonattainment program and ongoing federal efforts to address interstate pollution issues. The Handbook also includes summaries of EPA's rules for state-administered Title V operating permit programs and the key rules promulgated by EPA to implement the Title IV acid rain program.
The Clean Air Act is constantly evolving. Regulatory proceedings to implement the Act and its 1990 Amendments are ongoing, and Congress has further amendments under consideration. In addition to developing new rules, the EPA also continues to supplement existing rules with guidance documents and policy statements--materials critical to evaluating your company's compliance obligations. The third edition of the popular Clean Air Handbook provides readers with a broad overview of all the complex regulatory requirements of the Act and its amendments, including the most recent developments. Chapters cover such topics as the federal-state partnership, control technology regulation, operating and preconstruction permitting programs, acid deposition control program, regulation of mobile sources of air pollution, and more.