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TITLE IS: ENVIRONHENTAt PROTECTION SUBTITLE B: AIR POLLUTION CHAPTER C POLLUTION CONTROL'BOARD SUBCHAPTER 1: AIR QUALITY STANDARDS AMO EP1S00ES PART 243 AIR QUALITY STANDARDS SUSPART A: GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 249.101 242.102 24JU103 242.104 242.106 242.107 142.108 Definitions Preamble Applicability Hondegradatlon .Monitoring Reference.Conditions .Incorporations by Reference SUfcPART.B: STAKOAROSAXO'MEASUREMENT METHODS Section ;`5` -; V. - ' 242,121 .Particulates. 243 122 Sulfur Oxides (Sulfur Dioxide) 243.123 Carbon Monoxide 243.124. Nitrogen Dioxide- 243.12S Ozone 243.126 Lead Appendix A:, Rulelnto Section Table Appendix 8: Section .Into Rule Table Appendix C: Past Compliance Oates . V ''Jr AUTHORITY; Implementing Section 10 and authorized by Section 27 .of the Environmental Protection Act (111. Rev. Stat. 1981. ch. Ill 1/2. pars. ioio and 1027). SOURCE: Adopted as .Chapter 2: Air Pollution. Part.III: Air Quality Standards. In R7I-22. 4 PC8 191. riled and effective April 14. 1972: amended In R80-11. 46 PCS 12S. at 6 111. Reg. 5Q04..effective April 22. 1982; amended In Rd2>12. at 7 111. Reg. 9906. effective August 18. 1983; codified at 7 111. Reg. 11630. 'SUBPART A:' GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 241.101 Definitions a) Except as hereinafter stated and unless a d.tffe'ent meaning of a tern is clear from Its cdntsxt. the definitions of terms used In this Part shall be the same as those used In the Environmental Protection Act (111. Rev. Stat. 1981. ch. lit 1/2. pars.: 1801 et seq.) (Act). b) All terms which appear In this Part have the definitions specified by IS HI. Adn. Code 201 and 211. Section 243.102 Preamble a) Air quality standards are Halts on atmospheric concentrations of air contaminants established for the purpose of protecting public .health and welfare. The levels of air goal tty . designated by the standards.are designed to protect against -injury to hum. plant,or animal life and they are further Intended to allow maxima 'enjoyment, of life And property consistent i with |he intc- ht-of. the- Act. :bj The first use of our air resources Is to sustain life. Air entering the respiratory tract must' not menace health. - Therefore, the air quality-standards -set Mist, as a mlntsun. provide air Mich will not adversely affect, through acuta or chronlc fymptons. the health ef the comhunlty. Adverse, health effects Include not enly.lhe. pOssible pfoduct ton and aggravation of disease, but aisgi: Interference with'bodily functions!. The .standards have also taken Into account soiling! corrosion, vegetation damage-and^aUicr humanefXccLs~. . c) Primary aoblent air quality standards define levels of air quality, which are necessary. i with an adequate margin of safety, to protect the publlc .health, secondary.ambient atrquiltty standards^define'levels of air -- quality whiph are necessary; to protect the. - public .welfare from'any knownor anticipated adverse'effect's of a pollutant. d) The standards ,are more than goals. They are legally enforceable limitations... and any person causing or contributing to a violation. : of the standards Is subject to enforcement j proceedings under the .Act.. The standards have also been .designed for use as" a basis - i for the 'development of implementation plans by State and- local agencies Tor the abatement ' i and control .of..pollutant eslistfins..from . existing sources, and for the determination . of air contaminant emission 1 Imitations to Insure that population aind_economlc growth | trends do not add to the region's iff 1 pollution problems. Section 243.103 Applicability I ** The standards In this Part-are applIcable- throughout the State of Illinois, except as otherwise provided In this Part. Section 243.104 Nondegradation -Existing ambient air quality which Is better than the established ambient air quality standards at the date of. Uie.lr adopt loo..w111 be maintained In Its present high quality. Such ambient air quality .shall not-be-lowered unless and until U Is proved to the IllinoisEnvironmental Protection Agency (Agency) that such change Is justifiable as a result of necessary economic and social development and win not Interfere with or.became Injurious to human health or welfare. Section 243.106 Monitoring Pollution levels will be determined by fixed or aabl,1e. sampl ing stations beyond the premises on