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Control of Emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants From Mobile Sources

air-emissions · Rule · Published 2001-03-29 · Effective 2001-05-29 · 66 FR 17230

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Document number
01-37
Federal Register citation
66 FR 17230
CFR reference
40 CFR 80
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
air-emissions
Publication date
2001-03-29
Effective date
2001-05-29
EPA docket
AMS-FRL-6924-1

Abstract

Today's action addresses emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from motor vehicles and their fuels. Hazardous air pollutants refer to a range of compounds that are known or suspected to have serious health or environmental impacts. Motor vehicles are significant contributors to national emissions of several hazardous air pollutants, notably benzene, formaldehyde, 1,3-butadiene, acetaldehyde, and diesel particulate matter and diesel exhaust organic gases. In today's action, we list 21 compounds emitted from motor vehicles that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects. Our Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT) list includes various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and metals, as well as diesel particulate matter and diesel exhaust organic gases (collectively DPM + DEOG). The selection methodology we used to develop this MSAT list, which may be used to add compounds to or remove compounds from the list in the future as new information becomes available, is also described. In today's action we also examine the mobile source contribution to national inventories of these emissions and the impacts of existing and newly promulgated mobile source control programs, including our reformulated gasoline (RFG) program, our national low emission vehicle (NLEV) standards, our Tier 2 motor vehicle emissions standards and gasoline sulfur control requirements, and our proposed heavy-duty engine and vehicle standards and on-highway diesel fuel sulfur control requirements. Between 1990 and 2020, we project these programs will reduce on-highway emissions of benzene, formaldehyde, 1,3-butadiene, and acetaldehyde by 67 to 76 percent, and will reduce on-highway diesel PM emissions by 90 percent. This action also finalizes new gasoline toxic emission baseline requirements which require refiners to maintain current levels of over- compliance with toxic emissions performance standards that apply to federal reformulated gasoline (RFG) and anti-dumping standards t

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