Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control
§ 7620. Standardized air quality modeling
Statutory text
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).
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.
Comments; transcripts
Interested persons shall be permitted to submit written comments and a verbatim transcript of the conference proceedings shall be maintained.
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 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.
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. 782Enacted 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.”.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
- 1955July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title III, § 310, , 91 Stat. 782
- 1988amended Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5115(c), , 102 Stat. 1433.
Show as published
(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.)