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Air Pollution: Emission Sources Regulated by Multiple Clean Air Act Provisions

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 31, 2000
Report No. RCED-00-155
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Summary:

Each year industrial operations emit nearly 100 million tons of pollutants into the nation's air. These pollutants can make breathing difficult, form urban smog, impair visibility, and cause cancer or other serious health effects. The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 authorized a number of regulatory programs targeted at specific pollutants and/or specific sources of pollution. GAO was asked to provide information on examples of emission sources subject to regulation under more than one program authorized by the act and information on the status of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to facilitate compliance for such sources. Large industrial complexes operated by the petrochemical and refinery, chemical manufacturing, and electric power industries are prime examples of sources that are regulated under multiple programs of the act. In addition, EPA has embarked on a number of initiatives to reduce the regulatory workload of and facilitate compliance by such facilities.

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