Region 4: State Designations for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard
Boundary Designations for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard
- EPA Region 4
(as of May 21, 2008)

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This table identifies all counties EPA has designated as nonattainment.
In some cases EPA designated partial counties. These are identified by
a (P). Also, some counties are participating in an early action compact.
These are identified as EAC. If a county is not listed below, EPA has
designated it as unclassifiable/attainment. The redesignation request section of this site contains a table of redesignated areas and links to the related Federal Register documents.
|
State |
Nonattainment Area Name |
Counties |
Classification |
Maximum Attainment Date (from June 15, 2004) |
Current/Proposed Classification | Resdesignation Effective Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama |
Birmingham Map (PDF) (1 p, 44KB) |
Jefferson Shelby |
Basic | June 2009 | Maintenance | 6/12/06 |
| Florida |
entire state is attainment | |||||
| Georgia | Atlanta, GA1,6 Map (PDF) (1 p, 124KB) |
Barrow Cherokee Clayton Cobb Coweta DeKalb Douglas Fayette Forsyth Fulton Gwinnett Henry Paulding Rockdale Bartow Carroll Hall Newton Spalding Walton |
Marginal1,6 | June 2007 | Moderate1,6 | - |
| Chattanooga TN-GA 2 Map (PDF) (1 p, 84KB) |
Catoosa |
(EAC) | June 2009 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
| Macon, GA Map (PDF) (1 p, 40KB) |
Bibb Monroe (P) |
Basic | June 2009 | Maintenance | 10/19/07 |
|
| Murray Co Chattahoochee Nat. Forest Mountains, GA Map (PDF) (1 p, 54KB) |
Murray (P) | Basic | June 2009 | Basic | 11/15/07 |
|
| Kentucky | Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN Map (PDF) (1 p, 62KB) |
Boone Campbell Kenton |
Basic | June 2009 | Basic | - |
| Huntington-Ashland, KY-WV Map (PDF) (1 p, 102KB) |
Boyd | Basic | June 2009 | Maintenance | 9/4/07 | |
| Louisville, KY-IN Map (PDF) (1 p, 72KB) |
Bullitt Jefferson Oldham |
Basic | June 2009 | Maintenance | 8/6/07 | |
| Clarksville-Hopkinsville, TN-KY Map (PDF) (1 p, 67KB) |
Christian | Basic | June 2009 | Maintenance | 2/24/06 | |
| Mississippi | entire state is attainment | |||||
| North Carolina |
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Map (PDF) (1 p, 101KB) |
Gaston Mecklenburg Cabarrus Iredell (P) Lincoln Rowan Union |
Moderate | June 2010 | Moderate | - |
| Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC3 (EAC) Map (PDF) (1 p, 96KB) |
Davidson Davie Forsyth Guilford Alamance Caswell Randolph Rockingham |
(EAC)3 | June 2007 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
| Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Map (PDF) (1 p, 119KB) |
Durham Granville Wake Chatham (P) Franklin Johnston Orange Person |
Basic | June 2009 | Maintenance | 12/26/07 |
|
| Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC (EAC) Map (PDF) (1 p, 60KB) |
Alexander Burke (P) Caldwell (P) Catawba |
(EAC) | Dec 2007 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
| Haywood and Swain Cos (Great Smoky Mountains National Park), NC Map (PDF) (1 p, 55KB) |
Haywood (P) Swain (P) |
Basic | June 2009 | Basic | - |
|
| Fayetteville, NC (EAC) Map (PDF) (1 p, 51KB) |
Cumberland | (EAC) | Dec 2007 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
| Rocky Mount, NC Map (PDF) (1 p, 52KB) |
Edgecomb Nash |
Basic | June 2009 | Maintenance | 1/5/07 |
|
| South Carolina |
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC (EAC) Map (PDF) (1 p, 105KB) |
Anderson Greenville Spartanburg |
(EAC) | Dec 2007 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
| Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Map (PDF) (1 p, 101KB) |
York (P) | Moderate | June 2010 | Moderate | - |
|
| Columbia, SC (EAC) Map (PDF) (1 p, 60KB) |
Richland (P) Lexington (P) |
(EAC) | Dec 2007 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
| Tennessee |
Knoxville, TN Map (PDF) (1 p, 100KB) |
Cocke (P) Knox Anderson Blount Jefferson Loudon Sevier |
Basic | June 2009 | Basic | - |
| Memphis, TN-AR3,4,7 Map (PDF) (1 p, 52KB) |
Shelby | Marginal3,4,7 | June 2007 | Moderate3,4,7 | - |
|
| Nashville, TN (EAC) Map (PDF) (1 p, 84KB) |
Davidson Rutherford Sumner Williamson Wilson |
(EAC) | Dec 2007 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
| Chattanooga, TN-GA2 Map (PDF) (1 p, 84KB) |
Hamilton Meigs |
(EAC) | June 2009 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
| Clarksville-Hopkinsville, KY-TN Map (PDF) (1 p, 67KB) |
Montgomery5 | Basic5 | June 20095 | Maintenance | 11/21/05 |
|
| Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN (EAC) Map (PDF) (1 p, 105KB) |
Hawkins Sullivan |
(EAC) | Dec 2007 | Attainment | 4/15/08 |
|
1 Proposed for reclassification to Moderate on 10/16/07 [72 FR 58572 (PDF) (6 pp, 79KB)]
2 EPA has granted a deferral of the effective date, to September 30, 2005, of the nonattainment designation for Hamilton and Meigs Counties, Tennessee, and Catoosa County, Georgia. Request (PDF) (21 pp, 2MB), Federal Register notice (PDF) (6 pp, 72KB), EPA Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 84KB).
3 This area has received a bump down in classification. See the reclassifications page for information.
4 Proposed for reclassification to Moderate on 10/16/07 [72 FR 58577 (PDF) (6 pp, 73KB)]
5 Redesignated as attainment on 09/22/05 [70 FR 55559 (PDF) (10 pp, 95KB)]. Effective on 11/21/2005.
6 Reclassified to Moderate on 4/7/08 [73 FR 12013 (PDF) (5 pp, 73KB)]
7 Reclassified to Moderate on 4/28/08 [73 FR 16547 (PDF) (7 pp, 78KB)]
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