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CONTRIBUTION OF AREA SOURCES TO HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS IN THREE URBAN AREAS
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Jones, J. AND D. Campbell. CONTRIBUTION OF AREA SOURCES TO HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS IN THREE URBAN AREAS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/A-95/021 (NTIS PB95174637), 1994.
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The paper discusses the contribution of area sources to hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions in three urban areas--Baltimore, Chicago, and Seattle-Tacoma (Puget Sound). PA has implemented the Urban Area Source Program (UASP) required until Title III of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). esults of efforts by EPA's Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory and the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, as well as by the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and the Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency, indicate that the HAPs emitted in the greatest quantities in these area source inventories are from degreasing and dry cleaning. nother important source category is fossil fuel combustion. egreasing, dry cleaning, and fossil fuel combustion also emit most of the carcinogens in the Chicago and Puget Sound area source inventories. he Baltimore, Puget Sound, and Chicago are., source inventories were each developed differently. he best approach to use in developing a HAP area source emissions inventory may be to combine the top-down method with local surveys of small manufacturing facilities and service industries.
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CONTRIBUTION OF AREA SOURCES TO HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS IN THREE URBAN AREAS