Laws & Regulations
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Summary of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from cradle-to-grave. This includes generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal. RCRA also addresses management of non-hazardous solid wastes.
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Summary of the Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act regulates discharges of pollutants into U.S. waters, and controls pollution by means such as wastewater standards for industry, national water quality criteria recommendations for surface waters, and the NPDES permit program.
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Summary of the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act, or CAA, is the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources, using standards such as National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standards.
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Regulations
Regulations are mandatory requirements that can apply to individuals, businesses, state or local governments, non-profit institutions, or others.
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SBAR Panel: Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From Nonroad Diesel Engines
SBAR panel on setting emission standards for certain nonroad diesel engines
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Factors for IR-4 Public Interest Finding
Learn about factors for IR-4 public interest finding. Projects that achieve this status may be eligible for a registration service fee waiver.
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Monitoring Regulations
Contains information regarding recent monitoring regulations for criteria pollutants
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Order Responding to October 4, 2001 Request for the Administrator to Object to King Finishing's Operating Permit
This document is part of the Title V Petition Database.
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Operating Permits Issued under Title V of the Clean Air Act
This site will provide basic information on clean air permitting under the title V operating permits program, provide access to state and regional permitting programs, and maintain access to proposed and final regulatory requirements.
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Air Emissions Inventories
This site provides access to emissions data, regulations and guidance, electronic system access, resources and tools to support trends analysis, regional, and local scale air quality modeling, regulatory impact assessments.
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Pesticide Registration Improvement Act
Provides information about pesticide registration fees and help applicants determine the correct fee category/fee for the action they want to request.
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Hot Mix Asphalt Plants General Air Quality Permit coverage for Knife River Corporation Mountain West Portable Plant at Hasselstrom Pit on the Nez Perce Reservation
EPA's approval of coverage under the HMA general permit for Knife River Corporation - Mountain West (HMA Plant) - Hasselstrom Pit, Winchester, Idaho on the Nez Perce Reservation.
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Hot Mix Asphalt Plants General Air Quality Permit Request for Coverage: Columbia Asphalt & Ready-Mix (Wapato Quarry)
Coverage under the HMA general permit for Columbia Asphalt & Ready-Mix on the Yakama Reservation.
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NPDES Pretreatment Program in Region 10
Regional contacts and guidance for industrial pretreatment under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program in EPA's Region 10.
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Registration and reporting under the FARR
This page contains information for persons who own or operate certain sources of air pollution on Indian reservations in Idaho, Oregon and Washington state to register those sources with EPA and to report air pollutant emissions annually.
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Forms for registration and reporting under the FARR
Registration and reporting forms for air pollution sources on Indian reservations in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington that are subject to EPA's Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR).
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Controlling air emissions under the FARR
Controlling pollution and fugitive particulate matter emissions under the Federal Air Rules for Reservations.
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Training fires on Indian Reservations in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
The Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR) Open Burning Rule allows Fire Protection Services to request permission from EPA to conduct an outdoor burn by qualified personnel to train firefighters on fire suppression and fire fighting techniques.
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GHGRP Yearly Overview
EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program periodically produces detailed profiles of the various industries that report under the program. These profiles contain detailed analyses. This page hosts data highlights for all sectors.
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Memorandum of Agreement: Determination of Geographic Jurisdiction of the Section 404 Program and Application of Exemptions Under CWA Section 404(f)
MOA to determine the geographic jurisdictional scope of waters of the United States for purposes of section 404 and the application of the exemptions under section 404(f) of the Clean Water Act (CWA)