Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part A · Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control
§ 7548. Study of particulate emissions from motor vehicles
Statutory text
Study and analysis
The Administrator shall conduct a study concerning the effects on health and welfare of particulate emissions from motor vehicles or motor vehicle engines to which section 7521 of this title applies. Such study shall characterize and quantify such emissions and analyze the relationship of such emissions to various fuels and fuel additives.
The study shall also include an analysis of particulate emissions from mobile sources which are not related to engine emissions (including, but not limited to tire debris, and asbestos from brake lining).
Report to Congress
The Administrator shall report to the Congress the findings and results of the study conducted under subsection (a) not later than two years after . Such report shall also include recommendations for standards or methods to regulate particulate emissions described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a).
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977
Pub. L. 95–95 title II § 224(d) · 91 Stat. 685
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7548
(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title II, § 224(d), Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 767.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title II, § 224(d), Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 767.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(d) Part A of title II of such Act is amended by redesignating section 214 as section 216 and by inserting after section 213 the following 42 USC 7550. new section: “Sec. 214. “study of particulate emissions from motor vehicles (a) (1) The Administrator shall conduct a study concerning 42 USC 7548. the effects on health and welfare of particulate emissions from motor vehicles or motor vehicle engines to which section 202 applies. Ante, pp. 702, 751–753, 758–761, 765; Supra; Post, pp. 769, 791. Such study shall characterize and quantify such emissions and analyze the relationship of such emissions to various fuels and fuel additives. “(2) The study shall also include an analysis of particulate emissions from mobile sources which are not related to engine emissions (including, but not limited to tire debris, and asbestos from brake lining). “(b) The Administrator shall report to the Congress the findings and results of the study conducted under subsection (a) not later than two years after the date of the enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Such report shall also include recommendations for standards or methods to regulate particulate emissions described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a).”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 214 of act , was renumbered section 216 by Pub. L. 95–95 and is classified to section 7550 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , except as otherwise expressly provided, see section 406(d) of Pub. L. 95–95, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 7401 of this title.
Study on Suspended Particulate Matter
Pub. L. 95–95, title IV, § 403(a), , 91 Stat. 792, directed Administrator of EPA, not later than 18 months after , in cooperation with National Academy of Sciences, to study and report to Congress on relationship between size, weight, and chemical composition of suspended particulate matter and nature and degree of endangerment to public health or welfare presented by such particulate matter and availability of technology for controlling such particulate matter.
Credits
(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title II, § 214, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title II, § 224(d), , 91 Stat. 767.)