EPA Issues Transportation Conformity Rule For States to Address Particulate Matter

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency in a March 24 final rule detailed procedures states and local governments can use to ensure that transportation projects do not contribute to violations of revised air quality standards for particulate matter (75 Fed. Reg. 14,260).rnThe final rule synchronizes EPA's transportation conformity requirements with the revised air quality standards for fine and coarse particulate matter the agency issued in 2006. States use those requirements to review whether planned projects would contribute to air quality violations for PM.