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1 Legislative History of the Clean Air Act of 1990 Public Law 101-549 2399 (1990)

handle is hein.leghis/lecleaia0001 and id is 1 raw text is: PUBLIC LAW      101-549-NOV. 15, 1990              104 STAT. 2399
Public Law 101-549
101st Congress
An Act
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide for attainment and maintenance of health  Nov. 15, 1990
protective national ambient air quality standards, and for other purposes.  [S. 1630]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,                    Air pollution
control.
TITLE I-PROVISIONS FOR ATTAINMENT
AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL AM-
BIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
Sec 101 General planning requirements.
lec. 102. General provisions for nonattainment areas.
Sec. 103. Additional provisions for ozone nonattainment areas.
Sec. 104. Additional provisions for carbon monoxide nonattainment areas.
Sec. 105. Additional provisions for particulate matter (PM-10) nonattainment areas.
Sec. 106. Additional provisions for areas designated nonattainment for sulfur
oxides, nitrogen dioxide, and lead.
Sec. 107. Provisions related to Indian tribes.
Sec. 108. Miscellaneous provisions.
Sec. 109. Interstate pollution.
Sec. 110. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 111. Transportation system impacts on clean air.
SEC. 101. GENERAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS.                          Inter-
(a) AREA DEsIGNATIONS.-Section 107(d) of the Clean Air Act (42 goernmental
U.S.C. 7407(d)) is amended to read as follows:
(d) DESIGNATIONS.-
(1) DESIGNATIONS GENERALLY.-
(A) SUBMISSION BY GOVERNORS OF INITIAL DESIGNATIONS
FOLLOWING PROMULGATION OF NEW OR REVISED STANDARDS.-
By such date as the Administrator may reasonably require,
but not later than 1 year after promulgation of a new or
revised national ambient air quality standard for any
pollutant under section 109, the Governor of each State
shall (and at any other time the Governor of a State deems
appropriate the Governor may) submit to the Adminis-
trator a list of all areas (or portions thereof) in the State,
designating as-
(i) nonattainment, any area that does not meet (or
that contributes to ambient air quality in a nearby area
that does not meet) the national primary or secondary
ambient air quality standard for the pollutant,
(ii) attainment, any area (other than an area identi-
fied in clause (i)) that meets the national primary or
secondary ambient air quality standard for the pollut-
ant, or
(iii) unclassifiable, any area that cannot be classified
on the basis of available information as meeting or not

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