Air Quality Standards
The level of pollutants prescribed by regulations that are not be exceeded during a given time in a defined area.
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Ambient Air Quality Standards (AAQS): Health- and welfare-based standards for outdoor air which identify the maximum acceptable average concentrations of air pollutants during a specified period of time.
Air Quality Standards
The level of selected pollutants set by law that may not be exceeded in outside air. Used to determine the amount of pollutants that may be emitted by industry. ...
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National ambient air quality standards designed to protect welfare, including effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, man-made (anthropogenic) materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility, and climate; damage to property; ...
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS): Standards established by EPA that apply for outdoor air throughout the country. (see Criteria Pollutants, State Implementation Plans, Emissions Trading) ...
National ambient air quality standards Federal standards for the minimum ambient air quality needed to protect public health and welfare.
Nitrogen oxides All oxides of nitrogen except nitrous oxide.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) - Sets the levels of air quality for the United States , in the Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR ß50.2), to protect the population's health.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) - health-based pollutant concentration limits established by EPA that apply to outside air (see Criteria Pollutants) ...
example, EPA will seek to require potentially responsible parties to clean up a Superfund site, or pay for the cleanup, whereas under the Clean Air Act the agency may invoke sanctions against the cities failing to meet ambient air quality standards ...
National Ambient Air Quality Standards or NAAQS Under the US Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards to identify pollutants that can harm human health and the environment.
Criteria Pollutants: The 1970 amendments to the Clean Air Act required EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for certain pollutants known to be hazardous to human health.
Secondary Standards- National ambient air quality standards designed to protect welfare, including effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, man-made (anthropogenic) materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility, and climate; damage to property; ...
Hazardous Air Pollutants - Air pollutants which are not covered by ambient air quality standards but which, as defined in the Clean Air Act, may reasonably be expected to cause or contribute to irreversible illness or death.
SIP (State Implementation Plan) - mandate for achieving health-based air quality standards.
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SLBM (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile) - a ballistic missile carried by and launched from a submarine.
federal implementation plan A federally implemented plan to achieve attainment of air quality standards, used when a state is unable to develop an adequate plan.
Air pollutants which are not covered by ambient air quality standards but which, as defined in the Clean Air Act, may reasonably be expected to cause or contribute to irreversible illness or death.
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