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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control

§ 7620. Standardized air quality modeling

Statutory text

(a)

Conferences

Not later than six months after , and at least every three years thereafter, the Administrator shall conduct a conference on air quality modeling. In conducting such conference, special attention shall be given to appropriate modeling necessary for carrying out part C of subchapter I (relating to prevention of significant deterioration of air quality).

(b)

Conferees

The conference conducted under this section shall provide for participation by the National Academy of Sciences, representatives of State and local air pollution control agencies, and appropriate Federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation; 1 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

(c)

Comments; transcripts

Interested persons shall be permitted to submit written comments and a verbatim transcript of the conference proceedings shall be maintained.

(d)

Promulgation and revision of regulations relating to air quality modeling

The comments submitted and the transcript maintained pursuant to subsection (c) shall be included in the docket required to be established for purposes of promulgating or revising any regulation relating to air quality modeling under part C of subchapter I.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original. The semicolon probably should be a comma.

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.

  1. Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977

    Pub. L. 95–95 title III § 310 · 91 Stat. 685

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7620

    July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title III, § 310, Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 782

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title III, § 310, Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 782

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 310. modeling Title III of the Clean Air Act is amended by adding the following new section at the end thereof: “Sec. 320. “standardized air quality modeling (a) Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977, and at least every three years thereafter, the Administrator shall conduct a conference on air quality modeling. In conducting such conference, special attention shall be given to appropriate modeling necessary for carrying Ante, p. 731. out part C of title I (relating to prevention of significant deterioration of air quality). “(b) The conference conducted under this section shall provide for participation by the National Academy of Sciences, representatives of State and local air pollution control agencies, and appropriate Federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Bureau of Standards. “(c) Interested persons shall be permitted to submit written comments and a verbatim transcript of the conference proceedings shall be maintained. “(d) The comments submitted and the transcript maintained pursuant to subsection (c) shall be included in the docket required to be established for purposes of promulgating or revising any regulation relating to air quality modeling under part C of title I.”.

  2. Technology Competitiveness Act

    Pub. L. 100–418 title V § 5115(c) · 102 Stat. 1107

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 7620(b)

    Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “National Bureau of Standards”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “National Bureau of Standards”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (c) Amendments to Other Laws.— References in any other Federal 15 USC 271 note. law to the National Bureau of Standards shall be deemed to refer to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1988—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–418 substituted “National Institute of Standards and Technology” for “National Bureau of Standards”.

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.

Credits

1955–1988 · 2 acts
  1. 1955July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title III, § 310, , 91 Stat. 782
  2. 1988amended Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), , 102 Stat. 1433.
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(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title III, § 310, , 91 Stat. 782; amended Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), , 102 Stat. 1433.)

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