GOAL:
Protect public health and the environment from the adverse effects of hazardous air pollutants.

OBJECTIVE:
Implement and refine the State's hazardous air pollution control program.

STATUS & TRENDS:
In 1986, the State enacted a comprehensive hazardous air pollution control program. This program provides for limiting emissions and ambient air concentrations of approximately 860 compounds, monitoring and testing of hazardous air pollutants, defining the effects of hazardous air pollutants and establishing an up-to-date inventory of sources of these pollutants. As the knowledge of impacts is becoming better understood, refinements and improvements are being made. The current program takes advantage of four alternatives to control hazard air pollutants (HAPS). These are ambient air quality standards, technologybased requirements, source-specific control requirements, and a policy of assumed compliance.

STRATEGIES:

1. Implement and refine a comprehensive program that regulates hazardous air pollutants through limits on emissions and ambient air quality impacts.
2. Improve hazardous air pollutant monitoring capabilities, develop ambient air and source sampling procedures for regulated hazardous air pollutants.
3. Establish and update an inventory of hazardous air pollutant source emissions.
4. Provide incentives to design and install innovative technologies for hazardous air pollution control.
5. On an annual basis, update and implement federal requirements for the regulation of 190 hazardous air pollutants specifically mentioned in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.
6. Assign sole responsibility of health risk assessment for toxic pollutants to the Department of Health Services.
7. Continue to implement the development of air standards for key air pollutants.