Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§7515 General savings clause

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 6— - savings provisions › § 7515

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Rules, standards, notices, orders, and guidance the Administrator issued before November 15, 1990 must stay in force as written unless the chapter says otherwise, they conflict with a part of the chapter, or the Administrator changes them. If an area was a nonattainment area for any air pollutant, any control requirement that was in effect or required by an order, settlement agreement, or plan before November 15, 1990 cannot be changed after that date unless the change gives the same or greater cuts in that pollutant.

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Title 42, §7515

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Each regulation, standard, rule, notice, order and guidance promulgated or issued by the Administrator under this chapter, as in effect before November 15, 1990, shall remain in effect according to its terms, except to the extent otherwise provided under this chapter, inconsistent with any provision of this chapter, or revised by the Administrator. No control requirement in effect, or required to be adopted by an order, settlement agreement, or plan in effect before November 15, 1990, in any area which is a nonattainment area for any air pollutant may be modified after November 15, 1990, in any manner unless the modification insures equivalent or greater emission reductions of such air pollutant.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 7515

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73