Annual Air Quality Reports & Data

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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
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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.
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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)
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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).   
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State Implementation Plans

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State Plan for Hospital/Medical Waste Incinerators

MS Word 70 KB