Clean Air Act: Proposed Regional Haze Regulations : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety and the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, April 23, 1998U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 146 pages |
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Page 131 - Parks, monuments, etc., xxx to conform to the fundamental purposes xxx which is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the use and enjoyment xxx in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations...
Page 18 - 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 manmade air pollution.
Page 140 - The Agreement Between the United States of America and the United Mexican States on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area, signed at La Paz, Baja California Sur, August 14, 1983.
Page 51 - Administrator in determining emission limitations which reflect such technology) shall take into consideration the costs of compliance, the energy and nonair quality environmental impacts of compliance, any existing pollution control technology in use at the source, the remaining useful life of the source, and the degree of improvement in visibility which may reasonably be anticipated to result from the use of such technology; "(3) the term 'manmade air pollution...
Page 128 - Include both quantifiable measures (to the fullest extent that these can be usefully estimated) and qualitative measures of costs and benefits that are difficult to quantify, but nevertheless essential to consider.
Page 123 - State the emissions from which may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to any impairment of visibility in any such area) to contain such emission limits, schedules of compliance and other measures as may be necessary to make reasonable progress toward meeting the national goal specified in subsection (a), including...
Page 105 - Urban Ornamental Plants: Sensitivity to Ozone and Potential Economic Losses. Prepared for the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Research Triangle Park, NC. July.
Page 129 - EBSA estimates that the regulations will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Page 129 - ... (5) a description of the steps the agency has taken to minimize the significant economic impact on small entities consistent with the stated objectives of applicable statutes, including a statement of the factual, policy, and legal reasons...
Page 131 - The National Park Service (NPS) has reported that visibility impairment caused by air pollution occurs in varying degrees at many park monitoring stations virtually all the time. Today, the average visual range in most of the western United States, including national parks and wilderness areas, is 100-150 km (about 60-100 miles), or about one-half to two-thirds of the natural visual range that would exist in the absence of air...