S 769 · 98th Congress · Environmental Protection
Acid Deposition and Sulfur Loadings Reduction Act
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Introduced2
Committee3
Senate Vote4
House5
EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.(1983-03-10)
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Acid Deposition and Sulfur Loadings Reduction Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish a new program for acid deposition and sulfur loadings reduction. Establishes a long-range transport corridor, the "acid deposition impact region," consisting of 31 States (east of or bordering the Mississippi River) and the District of Columbia. Directs the Administrator to: (1) conduct a study of air pollution problems associated with the long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition impact region; and (2) report the results to Congress within two years. Prohibits any increase in emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from stationary sources in the acid deposition impact region over the total actual emissions of each pollutant in such region as of January 1, 1981. Prohibits any major stationary source in such region from increasing its actual rate of such emissions over that experienced by such source during 1980, unless there has been identified for such source an "offset" (a simultaneous net reduction in emissions of such pollutant at one or more points in such region which is in excess of the proposed increa…
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