Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§7511f NOx and VOC study

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 85— - AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES › Part Part D— - Plan Requirements for Nonattainment Areas › Subpart subpart 2— - additional provisions for ozone nonattainment areas › § 7511f

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require the Administrator, working with the National Academy of Sciences, to study how NOx and VOCs make and control ozone in the lower atmosphere. The study must look at NOx and VOC reductions, whether cutting NOx helps or hurts meeting air-quality goals in different areas, ozone sensitivity, available NOx controls, natural VOCs, and what model data are needed. Publish a draft for 30 days for public comment within 1 year of November 15, 1990, and send a final report to Congress within 15 months after November 15, 1990. Use all available information and add more studies if needed.

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Title 42, §7511f

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The Administrator, in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences, shall conduct a study on the role of ozone precursors in tropospheric ozone formation and control. The study shall examine the roles of NOx and VOC emission reductions, the extent to which NOx reductions may contribute (or be counterproductive) to achievement of attainment in different nonattainment areas, the sensitivity of ozone to the control of NOx, the availability and extent of controls for NOx, the role of biogenic VOC emissions, and the basic information required for air quality models. The study shall be completed and a proposed report made public for 30 days comment within 1 year of November 15, 1990, and a final report shall be submitted to Congress within 15 months after November 15, 1990. The Administrator shall utilize all available information and studies, as well as develop additional information, in conducting the study required by this section.

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42 U.S.C. § 7511f

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73