AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATIONS FOR ASPHALT PLANTS, SIMILIAR DRYING OPERATIONS

A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF ALL THE STATES TO DETERMINE THOSE WHICH HAVE SPECIFIC AIR POLLUTION REGULATIONS FOR ASPHALT PLANTS. NINE OF 38 STATES WHICH RESPONDED TO THE SURVEY HAVE SPECIFIC AIR POLLUTION REGULATIONS. THE OTHER 29 STATES, AND FIVE LOCAL PROGRAMS, HAVE REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND APPLY THEM TO ASPHALT PLANTS. MOST OF THE OTHER 29 STATES AND FIVE LOCAL PROGRAMS HAVE REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES, AND APPLY THEM TO ASPHALT PLANTS, USE PROCESS WEIGHT TABLES FOR THE CONTROL OF PARTICULATE MATTER. DETAILS ON THE 9 STATES AND ONE LOCAL CONTROL AGENCY THAT DO HAVE SPECIFIC REGULATIONS FOR ASPHALT PLANTS ARE PRESENTED IN A TABLE. THE REGULATIONS OF FOUR STATES AND ONE LOCAL AGENCY ARE BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF POLLUTION EMITTED PER 1,000 POUNDS OF FLUE GAS DISCHARGED FROM THE STACK. TWO OF THE STATES BASED THEIR REGULATIONS ON A PROCESS WEIGHT TABLE, WHICH LISTS THE ALLOWABLE EMISSION FOR A GIVEN AMOUNT OF MATERIAL INTRODUCED INTO THE PROCESS. TWO STATES, ONE OF WHICH ALSO USES THE PROCESS WEIGHT TABLE, REQUIRE A SPECIFIED COLLECTION EFFICIENCY OF CONTROL EQUIPMENT USED AT ASPHALT PLANTS. ANOTHER STATE BASES ITS REGULATION ON A CONCENTRATION STANDARD AND A BUFFER ZONE, AND THE FINAL STATE USES ONLY A BUFFER ZONE TO CONTROL EMISSIONS FROM ASPHALT PLANTS. INFORMATION OBTAINED INDICATED THAT A FEW STATES HAVE SMOKE STANDARDS AND NINE STATES EMPLOY A STANDARD FOR ODOR CONTROL. MANY OF THE STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAMS ARE NOW INCLUDING PROCESS WEIGHT TABLES OR OTHER SIMILAR EMISSION STANDARDS IN THEIR REGULATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL SOURCE CONTROL.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 112, No 10, PP 117-120, 4 TAB
• Authors:
  • Cross, F L
  • Ross, R W
• Publication Date: 1969-10

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Roads and Streets
  • Publisher: Donnelley (Reuben H) Corporation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Air quality management; Data collection; Flue gases; Industrial plants; Laws; Mixing plants; Standards; States; Surveys
• Old TRIS Terms: Bituminous mixing plants
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00219380
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 27 1970 12:00AM