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Urban, Great
Waters
and Regional Programs
The Clean Air Act requires a number of risk studies to help EPA better characterize
risks to human health and the environment from air toxics. These studies
will provide information for rulemaking in some cases but will also provide
information to support national and local efforts to address risks through
other voluntary and pollution prevention programs. These risk initiatives
include:
- Air Toxics Strategy,
which EPA published in July 1999, has risk-based goals for addressing
risks in urban areas. The Strategy includes local and community-based
initiatives which EPA envisions will involve partnerships between EPA
and State, local and tribal governments.
- Great Waters Program has activities
to investigate and reduce the deposition of toxic air pollutants to
the "Great Waters," which include the Chesapeake Bay, Lake
Champlain, the Great Lakes, National Estuary Program areas, and National
Estuarine Research Reserves.
- Mercury Initiatives
to identify and address risks. This effort builds on EPA's December
1997 Report to Congress on the sources and impacts of mercury emissions.
- Other coordination activities to identify and address risks from specific
types of pollutants. This includes the Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxics
(PBT) initiative.
- EPA
Region 1-CT,MA,ME,NH,RI,VT
- EPA Region 2-NJ,NY,PR,VI
- EPA
Region 3-DE,DC,MD,PA,VA,WV
- EPA Region 4-AL,FL,GA,KY,MS,NC,SC,TN
- EPA Region 5-IL,IN,MI,MN,OH,WI
- EPA
Region 6-AR,LA,NM,OK,TX
- EPA
Region 7-IA,KS,MO,NE
- EPA
Region 8-CO,MT,ND,SD,UT,WY
- EPA Region
9-AZ,CA,HI,NV,American Somoa, Guam
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EPA Region 10-AK,ID,OR,WA
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