S 2001 · 98th Congress · Environmental Protection
National Acid Deposition Reduction Act of 1983
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Introduced2
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EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.(1983-10-25)
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National Acid Deposition Reduction Act of 1983 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control Program - Amends the Clean Air Act ("the Act") to establish an acid deposition control program. Requires that a reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide in an acid deposition impact region (consisting of the 31 States, and the District of Columbia, east of or bordering on the Mississippi River) of 10,000,000 tons from the total actual annual level in 1980 of such emissions. Requires that this be a phased reduction and completed no later than January 1, 1993. Prohibits, beginning January 1, 1993, the total actual annual level of emissions of sulfur dioxide from stationary sources from being allowed to exceed 16,600,000 tons per year nationwide. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to publish, by January 1, 1985, an inventory and projection of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions for the United States, including (in tons): (1) 1980 emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from each major stationary source within the 50 States, by source and State; (2) 1980 emissions of nitrogen oxides from mobile sources for each of the 50 States, by type of mobile…
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