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§7427 Public notification

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 85— - AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES › Part Part A— - Air Quality and Emission Limitations › § 7427

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

States must regularly tell people each year about places or times when national air-quality standards were exceeded during the prior year. The notices must warn about health risks, tell people how to reduce exposure, and explain ways the public can join efforts to improve air quality. States can use signs, TV, radio, or press notices. The Administrator may give grants to help states pay for these notifications.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §7427

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(a)Each State plan shall contain measures which will be effective to notify the public during any calendar 11 So in original. Probably should be “calendar year”. on a regular basis of instances or areas in which any national primary ambient air quality standard is exceeded or was exceeded during any portion of the preceding calendar year to advise the public of the health hazards associated with such pollution, and to enhance public awareness of the measures which can be taken to prevent such standards from being exceeded and the ways in which the public can participate in regulatory and other efforts to improve air quality. Such measures may include the posting of warning signs on interstate highway access points to metropolitan areas or television, radio, or press notices or information.

(b)The Administrator is authorized to make grants to States to assist in carrying out the requirements of subsection (a).

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 7, 1977, 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.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 7427

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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