§7422 Listing of Certain Unregulated Pollutants

Summary

Within one year after August 7, 1977 (two years for radioactive pollutants), and after giving public notice and a hearing, the Administrator must review the available information and decide whether air emissions of radioactive pollutants, cadmium, arsenic, or polycyclic organic matter will cause or help cause air pollution that may reasonably be expected to endanger public health. If the Administrator finds that they do, the Administrator must add the substance to the federal lists used to control dangerous air pollutants or must list the kinds of stationary sources that emit it in significant amounts, or do both. The Administrator may later change those lists. Before listing any source material, special nuclear material, or byproduct material, the Administrator must consult the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Within six months after such a listing, the Administrator and the NRC must make an agreement to avoid duplicating work and save resources when setting and enforcing limits. If the NRC finds after notice and a hearing that applying a standard to a facility it controls would endanger public health or safety, that standard does not apply to those facilities unless the President decides otherwise within ninety days.