General Guidance on Innovative and Voluntary Air Pollution Control Strategies

The guidance documents below outline processes for including voluntary and innovative emission reduction programs in the context of state implementation plans, emission trading programs, and economic incentive programs.

• Incorporating Voluntary Mobile Source Emission Reduction Programs in State Implementation Plans (SIPs) (pdf) (May 2023, EPA-420-B-23-026)
  Guidance on how to include credit for voluntary mobile source emission reduction programs in a SIP.
• Guidance on Incorporating Bundled Measures in a State Implementation Plan (pdf) (3.06 MB, August 16, 2005)
  Guidance on how to combine the sum of emissions reductions from a group of emerging measures (transportation and stationary) for the purposes of submitting them to EPA in a single SIP submission.
• Economic Incentive Program (EIP) Guidance (pdf) (622 K, EPA-452/R-01-001, January 2001)
  Guidance on how to develop and include a discretionary Economic Incentive Program as a measure in a SIP.