Laws & Regulations

Clean Air Act Title III - General Provisions

This page has links to Clean Air Act sections relating to general provisions of the act, including policy review, audits and emergency powers.

Collection and Use of Risk Screen Data - Fire Suppression Sector

A Guide to Completing a Risk Screen: Collection and Use of Risk Screen Data – Fire Suppression Sector

Subpart J – Ethanol Production

Details GHGRP rulemaking actions affecting Subpart J of the program and provides links to relevant fact sheets, rulemaking documents, and other supporting materials.

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines

This page contains the current National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines and additional information regarding rule compliance and implementation.

Proposal: Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule

The proposal has several components: a best system of emission reduction analysis for coal-fired power plants, changes to the trigger for New Source Review, and new implementing regulations for emission guidelines under CAA section 111(d).

Flexible Polyurethane Foam Production and Fabrication: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Area Sources

This NESHAP applies to facilities using pressure or thermal treatment processes involving wood preservatives containing chromium, arsenic, dioxins, or methylene chloride. Inlcudes federal register citations, rule history and additional resources.

Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), Emission Guidelines (EG) and Compliance Times: Reconsideration and Stay of Effective Date

Letter to the petitioners, the agency said it also intends to issue a 90-day stay of the effectiveness of both the NSPS (subpart XXX) and the emission guidelines (subpart Cf).

Emission Monitoring Regulatory Actions

Links to part 75 regulatory actions and recent rules

IPM Analysis for the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR)

View Integrated Planning Model (IPM) run files and parsed files for the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) analysis, formerly known as the Interstate Air Quality Rule (IAQR).

Acetal Resins, Acrylic & Modacrylic Fibers, Carbon Black, Hydrogen Fluoride, Polycarbonate, Ethylene, Spandex & Cyanide Chemical Manufacturing: NESHAP for Source Categories, Generic Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards (40 CFR 63, Subpart YY)

NESHAP for GMACT for acetal resins, hydrogen fluoride, polycarbonate, ethylene production and cyanide chemicals. Find the rule history information, federal register citations, legal authority, rule summary, and additional resources

Technical Support Document - Landfill Sector

TSD Landfill Sector

Boise Decision

Boise Decision - August 2011

Secarb Decision

Archer Daniels Midland Decision

American Electric Power Decision

Request for Information on Emerging Technologies and Information Collection Request for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry

learn about the draft information collection request for oil and natural gas companies to help develop methane regulations, and the request for information on emerging technologies

Proposed Rule (April 18, 2016)

Proposed Rule - Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: New Listings of Substitutes; Changes of Listing Status; Reinterpretation of Unacceptability for Closed Cell Foam Products under the Significant New Alternatives Policy Program; and Revision of Clean Air Ac

Fact Sheet: Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: New Listings for the Significant New Alternatives Policy Program in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning and Fire Protection Sectors

Under section 612 of the Clean Air Act, EPA reviews substitutes in a comparative risk framework.

Fact Sheet: Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: New Listings for the Significant New Alternatives Policy Program in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning and Solvent Cleaning Sectors

Section 612 of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to evaluate alternatives to ozone-depleting substances.