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| 01-37 | Control of Emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants From Mobile Sources | Rule | Today's action addresses emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from motor vehicles and their fuels. Hazardous air pollutants refer to a range of compounds that are known or suspected to have serious health or environmental impacts. Motor vehicles are significant contributors to national emissions of several hazardous air pollutants, notably benzene, formaldehyde, 1,3-butadiene, acetaldehyde, and diesel particulate matter and diesel exhaust organic gases. In today's action, we list 21 compounds emitted from motor vehicles that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects. Our Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT) list includes various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and metals, as well as diesel particulate matter and diesel exhaust organic gases (collectively DPM + DEOG). The selection methodology we used to develop this MSAT list, which may be used to add compounds to or remove compounds from the list in the future as new information becomes available, is also described. In today's action we also examine the mobile source contribution to national inventories of these emissions and the impacts of existing and newly promulgated mobile source control programs, including our reformulated gasoline (RFG) program, our national low emission vehicle (NLEV) standards, our Tier 2 motor vehicle emissions standards and gasoline sulfur control requirements, and our proposed heavy-duty engine and vehicle standards and on-highway diesel fuel sulfur control requirements. Between 1990 and 2020, we project these programs will reduce on-highway emissions of benzene, formaldehyde, 1,3-butadiene, and acetaldehyde by 67 to 76 percent, and will reduce on-highway diesel PM emissions by 90 percent. This action also finalizes new gasoline toxic emission baseline requirements which require refiners to maintain current levels of over- compliance with toxic emissions performance standards that apply to federal reformulated gasoline (RFG) and anti-dumping standards that apply to conventional gasoline (CG). Because the new baseline requirements do not require refiners to install new equipment or use technologies beyond what they were using in the baseline period (1998- 2000), we project that this program will impose only negligible costs. The new baseline requirements are designed to prevent backsliding and to ensure that existing overcompliance with current standards continues. We are not setting additional vehicle-based air toxics controls at this time because the technology-forcing Tier 2 light-duty vehicle standards and those standards being developed in response to our recent proposal for heavy-duty engine and vehicle standards represent the greatest degree of toxics control achievable at this time considering existing standards, the availability and cost of the technology, and noise, energy, and safety factors, and lead time. Finally, because of our continuing concern about the potential health impacts of public exposure to air toxics, today's action also describes a Technical Analysis Plan through which we will continue to improve our understanding of the risk posed by air toxics to public health and welfare. It will also allow us to evaluate the need for and appropriateness of additional mobile source air toxics controls for on- highway and nonroad sources, and their fuels. Based on the information developed through this technical analysis plan, we will conduct a future rulemaking, to be completed no later than July 1, 2004. | 2001-03-29 | 2001 | 3 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/03/29/01-37/control-of-emissions-of-hazardous-air-pollutants-from-mobile-sources | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-03-29/pdf/01-37.pdf | Environmental Protection Agency | 145 | Today's action addresses emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from motor vehicles and their fuels. Hazardous air pollutants refer to a range of compounds that are known or suspected to have serious health or environmental impacts. Motor... |