Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Links

• Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Directs national efforts to meet air quality goals, particularly for smog, air toxics, carbon monoxide, lead, particulate matter (soot and dust), sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.
  
  
• Emission Measurement Center The Emission Measurement Center provides access to air emission test methods and testing information for the development and enforcement of national, state, and local emission prevention and control programs.
  
• NATA: 1996 National Air Toxics Assessment Activities National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment that, when complete, will include 33 air toxics that present the greatest threat to public health in the largest number of urban areas.
  
• Clearing House for Inventories & Emission Factors EPA's central clearinghouse for the latest information on air emission inventories and emission factors. Emission estimation data bases, newsletters, announcements and guidance on performing inventories.
  
• EPA Title V Operating Permits Program
  
• RACT/BACT/LAER Clearinghouse (RBLC) Provides data on prevention and control technology determinations made by State and local permitting agencies.
  
• Unified Air Toxics Website The UATW is an EPA cooperative Web site for Federal/State and local air toxics programs and a central repository for air toxics information.
  
• Education and Outreach Group Provides technical air pollution training. Promotes environmental education. Responsible for developing and enhancing the OAQPS Outreach Program.
  
• AIRNOW - Real Time Air Pollution Data Provides real-time air pollution data in an understandable, visual format, information about the public health and environmental effects of air pollution, and information about ways in which the public can protect their health, and actions they can take to reduce pollution.