Clean Air Act Oversight: Hearings Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - Air |
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Page 582 - ... (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 764 - The purposes of this title are (1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 438 - 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 793 - stationary source" means any building, structure, facility, or installation which emits or may emit any air pollutant. (4) The term "modification" means any physical change in, or change in the method of operation of. a stationary source which increases the amount of any air pollutant emitted by such source or which results in the emission of any air pollutant not previously emitted. (5) The term "owner or operator" means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a stationary...
Page 2 - 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 611 - Also, coke oven emissions were listed as a hazardous air pollutant under section 112 of the Clean Air Act. Assessments containing information on the sources, emissions, public exposure, health effects, current controls, and possible control improvements were completed for most of the substances shown in the "Regulatory Options Analysis...
Page 772 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am pleased to have the opportunity of appearing before this committee to discuss the 1971 budget estimates for intelligence activities.
Page 516 - ... which, in the judgment of the 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...
Page 414 - ... authority over chemical substances and mixtures should be exercised in such a manner as not to impede unduly or create unnecessary economic barriers to technological innovation while fulfilling the primary purpose of this Act to assure that such innovation and commerce in such chemical substances and mixtures do not present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.
Page 428 - best available control technology" means an emission limitation based on the maximum degree of reduction of each pollutant subject to regulation under this Act emitted from or which results from any major emitting facility, which the permitting authority, on a case-by-case basis, taking into account energy, environmental, and economic impacts and other costs, determines is achievable for such facility through application of production processes...