Hazardous Air Contaminant definition

Hazardous Air Contaminant means an air contaminant which in the judgment of the Secretary, taking into account its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, causes, or contributes to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness.
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Hazardous Air Contaminant means any air contaminant listed pursuant to subsection 112(b) of the Federal Clean Air Act.
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Hazardous Air Contaminant means any air contaminant for which no ambient air quality standard is set in ch. NR 404 and which the department determines may cause or significantly con- tribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irrevers- ible or incapacitating reversible illness, or may pose a significant
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Examples of Hazardous Air Contaminant in a sentence

  • Considering the lack of ambient monitoring data for air toxics, the Vermont Legislature mandated in 1993 (Act 92) that an air toxics monitoring program be conducted by the Agency of Natural Resources under the guidance of the Hazardous Air Contaminant Advisory Committee.

  • Hazardous Air Contaminant is any air contaminant which may cause, or contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness and has been so designated by the Board.

  • The Vermont General Assembly subsequently passed a bill, S.107, in the spring of 1993 which provided for the curbside collection of used oils and exempted waste oil furnaces from the Control of Hazardous Air Contaminant rule.

  • The buffer zone for isolated land subject to flooding shall extend 100 feet from the highest extent of flooding.

  • In addition, as a result of increasing concerns and a general lack of detailed information regarding the air quality impacts from the combustion of used oils in waste oil furnaces, the APCR were amended in January of 1993 making these units subject to the Control of Hazardous Air Contaminant rule ( §5-261 APCR).

  • Afterwards, she moved to Los Angeles in order to pursue her musical career; after one of her concerts in the city at the age of 21 she was raped, an event that deeply marked her 108 and that she translated into music by writing the song “Me and a Gun”, which she recorded singing a cappella and that became her first single.

  • Table 3-6 Quantification of Cooling Tower HAC Emissions Hazardous Air Contaminant 1 For Category 3 HACs, emission rate is based on 2,000 hours/year of operation, or actual hours of operation.

  • Cadmium and chromium concentrations were high enough such that projected emission and ambient impacts would not comply with the ambient air standards contained in the Control of Hazardous Air Contaminant rule ( §5-261 of the APCR).

  • In §153.265, we propose to extend these prohibitions to State-operated reinsurance programs so that a State establishing the reinsurance program would be directed to ensure that its applicable reinsurance entity does not use any funds for the support of operations of the reinsurance program, including any reinsurance contributions collected under the national contribution rate for administrative expenses, for any of the prohibited purposes stated in section 1311(d)(5)(B) of the Affordable Care Act.

  • Table 3-14 Quantification of Cooling Tower HAC Emissions Hazardous Air Contaminant The estimated HAC emissions from the cooling towers do not exceed their respective Action Levels, and accordingly, cooling tower emissions were not evaluated further under §5-261 of the Regulations.


More Definitions of Hazardous Air Contaminant

Hazardous Air Contaminant means any air contaminant considered by the Agency, Department or Commission to cause or contribute to an identifiable and significant increase in mortality or to an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating irreversible illness and for which no ambient air standard exists.
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Hazardous Air Contaminant means any air contaminant for which no ambient air quality standard is set in ch. NR 404 and which the department determines may cause or significantly con- tribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irre-
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Related to Hazardous Air Contaminant

  • Air contaminant means dust, fumes, mist, smoke, other particulate matter, vapor, gas, odorous substances, or any combination thereof.

  • Hazardous air pollutant means any air pollutant listed as a hazardous air pollutant pursuant to Section 112(b) of the FCAA.

  • Air contaminant source means any and all sources of emission of air contaminants whether privately or publicly owned or operated (Section 19-2-102(2)).

  • Contaminant means any waste, pollutant, hazardous substance, toxic substance, hazardous waste, special waste, petroleum or petroleum-derived substance or waste, asbestos in any form or condition, polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”), or any constituent of any such substance or waste.

  • Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP means any pollutant listed by the EPA as a hazardous air pollutant in conformance with Section 112(b) of the Clean Air Act. A list of these pollutants is available at the Division of Air Quality.

  • Hazardous Substance means any substance that is: (i) listed, classified or regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law; (ii) any petroleum product or by-product, asbestos-containing material, lead-containing paint or plumbing, polychlorinated biphenyls, radioactive materials or radon; or (iii) any other substance which is the subject of regulatory action by any Governmental Entity pursuant to any Environmental Law.

  • Hazardous Substances means any toxic or hazardous substances, materials, wastes, contaminants or pollutants, including asbestos, PCBs, petroleum products and byproducts, and any substances defined or listed as "hazardous substances," "hazardous materials," "hazardous wastes" or "toxic substances" (or similarly identified), regulated under or forming the basis for liability under any applicable Environmental Law.

  • Hazardous Material means anything defined as a hazardous waste, hazardous substance, toxic substance, hazardous material, pollutant, or contaminant or similar term under an Environmental Law

  • Pollutant means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, medical wastes, radioactive substance (except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. §§ 2011 et seq.)), thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial, municipal, agricultural, and construction waste or runoff, or other residue discharged directly or indirectly to the land, ground waters or surface waters of the State, or to a domestic treatment works. “Pollutant” includes both hazardous and nonhazardous pollutants.

  • Hazardous Materials means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

  • Contaminants or "pollutants," or words of similar import, under any Environmental Law and (c) any other substance exposure to which is regulated under any Environmental Law.

  • Hazardous Waste means the substances regulated as such pursuant to any Environmental Law.

  • Hazardous substance UST system means an UST system that contains a hazardous substance defined in section 101(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (but not including any substance regulated as a hazardous waste under subtitle C) or any mixture of such substances and petroleum, and which is not a petroleum UST system.

  • Air pollutant , which means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance (including noise) present in the atmosphere in such concentration as may be or tend to be injurious to human beings or other living creatures or plants or property or environment.

  • Hazardous Wastes means all waste materials subject to regulation under CERCLA, RCRA or applicable state law, and any other applicable Federal and state laws now in force or hereafter enacted relating to hazardous waste disposal.