Paper for Emission Inventory: Regional Strategies for the Future - Air Toxics Inventory for Calendar Year 1996 for the Great Lakes Region

摘要

The Great Lakes Regional Air Toxic Emission Inventory Project has developed a multijurisdictional inventory of point, area, and mobile sources of toxic air emissions that have the potential to impact environmental quality in the Great Lakes Basin. The objective of this inventory is to provide researchers and policy makers with detailed, basin wide data on the source and emission levels of 82 (49 for 1993) toxic contaminants. These inventories present a compilation of best available data for calendar years 1993 emissions from point and area and 1996 for point, area and mobile sources. The mobile sources include 82 categories of non-road sources, on-road and airport emissions. In addition to the pollutants identified by the US EPA list of targeted toxic chemicals and compounds, the inventory also includes sources from many traditionally unregulated sites, not currently covered by the US Clean Air Act. These sources include relatively small gas, coal, and oil-fired boilers; asphalt and concrete plants; industries dealing with primary metals or secondary metals; cultured marble companies, woodburning stoves and fireplaces; non-road engines; and any facility with an incinerator. The development of these inventories is an important step in meeting the goals of the 1986 Great Lakes Toxic Substances Control Agreement and the U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments.