Section 111 Clean Air Act

Part a air quality and emission limitations.

Section 111 clean air act. Section 111 of the clean air act provides for the establishment of nationwide emission standards for major stationary sources of dangerous air pollution including since 1971 power plants. Section 111 cont section 111 d is broad by design. Clean air act section 111 cont how section 111 d has worked epa previously has set emission guidelines for 5 source categories has not prescribed technology that must be used to comply once epa set the guidelines states developed section 111 d plans establishing standards of performance for.

Congress anticipated there may be air pollution problems that epa would need to address beyond those covered by national ambient air quality standards such as ozone and fine particle pollution or air toxics standards. This paper answers basic questions about epa s authority to issue federal implementation plans fips for the clean power plan regulations that epa is issuing under section 111 d of the clean air act. In response to the supreme court s decision in massachusetts v.

Section 111 of the clean air act authorizes the epa to develop technology based standards which apply to specific categories of stationary sources. The last major change in the law the clean air act amendments of 1990 was enacted by congress in 1990. Section 111 of the clean air act section 111 of the caa directs epa to establish emissions standards for stationary sources of air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare section 111 b details epa s authority to regulate new and modified sources.

The provisions of subsections a amending this section and b apply only so long as the provisions of section 403 e of the clean air act. A prior section 111 of act july 14 1955 was renumbered section 118 by pub. The clean air act is the law that defines epa s responsibilities for protecting and improving the nation s air quality and the stratospheric ozone layer.

Part b ozone protection replaced by title vi part c prevention of significant deterioration of air quality. 91 604 and is classified to section 7418 of this title. Epa12 that the clean.

These standards are referred to as new source performance standards nsps and are found in 40 cfr part 60.