User's Manual for the RACT/BACT/LAER Clearinghouse (RBLC) Web

The RBLC provides data on prevention and control technology determinations made primarily by State and local permitting agencies. The Clearinghouse contains over 6,000 determinations that can help the user to identify appropriate technologies to mitigate or treat most air pollutant emission streams. The RBLC was designed to help permit applicants and reviewers to make pollution prevention and control technology decisions for stationary air pollution sources and includes data submitted by 50 states and territories in the U.S. on over 200 different air pollutants and 1,800 industrial processes.

The Clearinghouse also has a regulation data base that summarizes all emission standards issued by EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS). This includes New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), and Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards. The regulation data base also includes prevention and control technology cost information related to each rule and references to supporting documentation. 

• RBLC User Manual Volume 1 (pdf) (1.02 MB, November 2006)
  Volume 1 RBLC Basics
• RBLC User Manual Volume 2 (pdf) (514.38 KB, November 2006)
  Volume 2 RBLC Data Entry
• RBLC User Manual Volume 3, Appendix A (pdf) (237.3 KB, 9/20/2004)
  Appendix A Data Input Form
• RBLC User Manual Volume 3, Appendix B (pdf) (146.4 KB, 7/28/2020)
  Appendix B Agency Code Listing
• RBLC User Manual Volume 3, Appendix C (pdf) (222.59 KB, 7/28/2020)
  Appendix C Process Type Code Listing
• RBLC User Manual Volume 3, Appendix D (pdf) (153.31 KB, 7/28/2020)
  Appendix D Abbreviations for Processes and Units
• RBLC User Manual Volume 3, Appendix E (pdf) (187.02 KB, 7/28/2020)
  Appendix E RBLC Standard Emission Limit Units by Process Type Code
• RBLC User Manual Volume 3, Appendix F and G (pdf) (1.08 MB, October 2004)
  Appendix F Examples of RBLC Standard Reports and Appendix G Examples of Federal/State Regulation Standard Reports
• RBLC User Manual Volume 3, Appendix H (pdf) (358.86 KB, 7/28/2020)
  Appendix H Pollutant Group and Synonym List
• RBLC Pollutant Groups (pdf) (56.75 KB, 11/28/2011)
  Pollutant groups
• RBLC Annual Supplement (Text w/o Appendices) (pdf) (99.41 KB, 8/2000)
  This report covers June 1999 through June 2000
• RBLC 2000 Annual Supplement Appendix F (pdf) (192.62 KB, 11/2000)
  Appendix F
• RBLC 2000 Annual Supplement Appendix G (pdf) (133.16 KB, 11/2000)
  Appendix G
• RBLC 2000 Annual Supplement Appendix H (pdf) (348.83 KB, 11/2000)
  Appendix F