Arizona Laws 49-404. State implementation plan
A. The director shall maintain a state implementation plan that provides for implementation, maintenance and enforcement of national ambient air quality standards and protection of visibility as required by the clean air act.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 49-404
- Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
- Clean air act: means the clean air act of 1963 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
- Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
- Maintenance area: means any nonattainment area that has been redesignated by the administrator to attainment status. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- State implementation plan: means the accumulated record of enforceable air pollution control measures, programs and plans adopted by the director and submitted to the administrator pursuant to 42 United States Code § 7410. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
B. The director may adopt rules that describe procedures for adoption of revisions to the state implementation plan.
C. The state implementation plan and all revisions adopted before September 30, 1992 remain in effect according to their terms, except to the extent otherwise provided by the clean air act, inconsistent with any provision of the clean air act, or revised by the administrator. No control requirement in effect, or required to be adopted by an order, settlement agreement or plan in effect, before the enactment of the clean air act in any area which is a nonattainment or maintenance area for any air pollutant may be modified after enactment in any manner unless the modification insures equivalent or greater emission reductions of the air pollutant. The director shall evaluate and adopt revisions to the plan in conformity with federal regulations and guidelines promulgated by the administrator for those purposes until the rules required by subsection B are effective.