Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§7513b Issuance of RACM and BACM guidance

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 4— - additional provisions for particulate matter nonattainment areas › § 7513b

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The EPA Administrator must create technical guidance on reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM) for urban fugitive dust, residential wood burning (including curtailments and exemptions), and prescribed silvicultural and agricultural burning. That guidance must be issued within 18 months after November 15, 1990. The Administrator must also review other source categories that help cause PM–10 violations, decide if more guidance is needed, and issue any such guidance within 3 years after November 15, 1990, consulting with States and considering emission reductions under subchapter IV–A and other parts of this law.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §7513b

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Administrator shall issue, in the same manner and according to the same procedure as guidance is issued under section 7408(c) of this title, technical guidance on reasonably available control measures and best available control measures for urban fugitive dust, and emissions from residential wood combustion (including curtailments and exemptions from such curtailments) and prescribed silvicultural and agricultural burning, no later than 18 months following November 15, 1990. The Administrator shall also examine other categories of sources contributing to nonattainment of the PM–10 standard, and determine whether additional guidance on reasonably available control measures and best available control measures is needed, and issue any such guidance no later than 3 years after November 15, 1990. In issuing guidelines and making determinations under this section, the Administrator (in consultation with the State) shall take into account emission reductions achieved, or expected to be achieved, under subchapter IV–A and other provisions of this chapter.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 7513b

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73