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Page 30 - ... (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 30 - hazardous air pollutant' means an air pollutant to which no ambient air quality standard is applicable and which in the judgment of the Administrator may cause, or contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness. (2) The term 'new source...
Page 3 - Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs also participated.
Page 8 - Congress hereby declares as a national goal the prevention of any future, and the remedying of any existing, impairment of visibility in mandatory class I Federal areas which impairment results from man made air pollution.
Page 38 - In Environmental effects of forest residues management in the Pacific Northwest. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-24.
Page 19 - One of the most useful (and logical) tools for estimating typical emissions is the 'emission factor,' which is an estimate of the rate at which a pollutant is released to the atmosphere as a result of some activity, such as combustion or industrial production, divided by the level of that activity (also expressed in terms of a temporal rate).
Page 8 - ... Manager and the Federal official charged with direct responsibility for management of such lands shall have an affirmative responsibility to protect the air quality related values (including visibility) of any such lands within a class I area and to consider, in consultation with the Administrator, whether a proposed major emitting facility will have an adverse impact on such values.
Page 38 - Gerstle, RW and DA Kemnitz. 1967. Atmospheric emissions from open burning. J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc.
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Page 39 - International Symposium on Air Quality and Smoke from Urban and Forest Fires, Fort Collins, CO., Oct.