Clean Air Act Oversight (field Hearings): Hearings Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - Air |
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Page 530 - ... (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or (B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of. or otherwise managed.
Page 49 - Underlined numbers in parentheses refer to items in the list of references at the end of this report.
Page 190 - For the purposes of this subsection, the term "feasible" means feasible with the use of the best technology, treatment techniques and other means which the Administrator finds, after examination for efficacy under field conditions and not solely under laboratory conditions, are available (taking cost into consideration).
Page 743 - Any national secondary ambient air quality standard prescribed, under subsection (a) shall specify a level of air quality the attainment and maintenance of which in the judgment of the Administrator, based on such criteria, is requisite to protect the public welfare from any known or anticipated adverse effects associated with the presence of such air pollutant in the ambient air.
Page 386 - Administrator causes, or contributes to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness.22 The Administrator is directed to publish a list of hazardous air pollutants and set a national emission standard providing for an "ample margin of safety to protect the public health.
Page 558 - John Higginson, director of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer — assigned the primary blame for cancer to what he labeled "environmental
Page 448 - primary" standards to protect public health and "secondary" standards to protect public welfare — are the cornerstone of this important law.
Page 8 - For the purpose of this section, the term "dispersion technique" includes any intermittent or supplemental control of air pollutants varying with atmospheric conditions. (c) Not later than six months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator, shall after notice and opportunity for public hearing, promulgate regulations to carry out this section. For purposes of this section, good engineering practice means, with respect to stack...
Page 396 - For the purpose of subparagraphs (A) (i) and (ii) and (B), a standard of performance shall reflect the degree of emission limitation and the percentage reduction achievable through application of the best technological system of continuous emission reduction which (taking into consideration the cost of achieving such emission reduction, any nonair quality health and environmental impact and energy requirements) the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated.
Page 751 - Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population; "(2) to initiate and accelerate a national research and development program to achieve the prevention and control of air pollution; "(3) to provide technical and financial assistance to State and local governments in connection with the development and execution of their air pollution prevention and control programs; and "(4) to encourage and assist the development and operation of...