Air Program Reports & Initiatives
Annual Air Quality Reports & Data
Web page
CAIR/CAMR Initiative
MassDEP held a stakeholder meeting for Thursday, August 3, 2006, to discuss implementation in Massachusetts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) and Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR).
Agenda & background Web page
CAIR presentation MS Powerpoint 67 KB | PDF 39 KB
CAMR presentation MS Powerpoint 76 KB | PDF 121 KB
Clean Air Act Amendments: Status Report on Implementation, April 2000
Report on programs implemented by MassDEP to attain ambient air quality standards. Web page
Clean Air and Massachusetts Utilities: Eight Years of Cleaning Up Power Plant Emissions, June 1998
PDF 44 KB
Massachusetts Vehicle Check / Enhanced Emissions & Safety Test Annual & Biennial Reports
Program activity descriptions and emissions test data for specific periods as required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Web site
Mercury: Evaluation of Technological and Economic Feasibility of Controlling and Eliminating Mercury Emissions from the Combustion of Solid Fossil Fuel, December 2002
MS Word 728 KB | PDF 534 KB
RACT/CAIR/BART Initiative
MassDEP held an informational session in Boston on January 31, 2006, about State Implementation Plan (SIP) requirements related to a number of air quality rules adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Meeting overview and agenda MS Word 34 KB | PDF 24 KB
8-hour ozone reasonably available control technology (RACT) and Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) MS Powerpoint 110 KB | PDF 65 KB
Multi-pollutant straw proposal MS Powerpoint 87 KB | PDF 132 KB
Regional haze presentation MS Powerpoint 2.3 MB | PDF 680 KB
Best available retrofit technology (BART) MS Powerpoint 48 KB | PDF 22 KB
List of Massachusetts facilities potentially subject to BART MS Excel 23 KB | PDF 10 KB
Ozone, CAIR, and regional planning milestones MS Word 30 KB | PDF 14 KB
Periodic Emissions Inventories
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 required Massachusetts and other states to develop emission inventories for designated areas failing to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone and Carbon Monoxide (CO). Web page
State Implementation Plans
Web page
State Plan for Hospital/Medical Waste Incinerators
MS Word 70 KB |