Where the action is

Journal Article · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · AGA Monthly (American Gas Association); (United States)

OSTI ID:5035225

Villena-Denton, V

This paper reports that with the 1990 passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments, Congress offered new marketing opportunities to the natural gas industry - but it also imposed new regulations. And while the federal government established the broad-based environmental gas for the legislation, it left the detailed planning and implementation to the individual state governments. The amendments mandated for the first time limits on nitrogen oxide (NO{sub x}) emissions, which contribute to lower-atmosphere ozone, a component of urban smog. Any state in a designated ozone nonattainment area has to develop a state implementation plan (SIP) for compliance with the law. The deadline set by Congress for the development of a SIP is coming soon, in November, although the states have until 1995 to put their plans into action. The initial focus is on the control technology that each state will mandate for major stationary sources of NO{sub x} emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is supposed to provide guidelines to the states, but with these guidelines mired in bureaucratic red tape and the planning deadline approaching, many states are being forced to go ahead on their own.

• OSTI ID: 5035225
• Journal Information: AGA Monthly (American Gas Association); (United States), Vol. 74:6; ISSN 0002-8584
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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