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TITLE 35: EMVIROtDtfNTAt PROTECTION SUBTITLE B: .AIR POLLUTION CHAPTER l: POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD SUBCHAPTER I: AIR QUALITY STANOAROS AMO EPISODES PART 243 AIR QUALITY STANOAROS SUBPART A: GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 249.101 243.102 241.101 243.104 . 243.106 243.107 343.108 Definitions Preamble Applicability Nondegradatton Honltoting Reference.Conditions Incorporations by Reference ' SUBPART .8: STANOAROS. AMO MEASUREMENT METHODS ` "Section 243,121 243 122 243.123 ... 241.124 241.12S 243.126 --' - -- - .Particulates. Sulfur Oxides (Sulfur Otoxlde) Carbon Monoxide Nitrogen Oioxide Ozone Lead - Appendix A:, Rule .Into Section Table Appendix B: Section .Into Rule Table Appendix C: Past Compliance Oates AUTHORITY: Implementing Section 10 and authorized by Section 27 of the Environmental Protection Act (111. Rev. Stat. mi, ch. Ill 1/2. pars. 1010 and 1027). SOURCE: Adopted as .Chapter 2: Air Pollution, Part.Jit: Air Quality Standards. In R7I-21. 4 PCS 191. riled and errective April 14. 1972; amended In R80-11. 46 PCB 12S. at 6 111. Reg. 5904...errective April 22. 1982; amended In R82>12. at 7 111. Reg. 9906. errective August 18. 1983; codtrted at 7 111. Reg. 13630. 'SUBPART a:' GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 243.101 Definitions a)-Except as hereinafter stated and unless a dlffe-ent meaning of a term is cleAr from Its context, the definitions of terms iised in this Part shall be the same as those used In the Environmental Protection Act (111. Rev. Stat. 1981. ch. ill 1/2. pars. 1001 et seq.) (Act). b) 'All terms which appear in this Part, have the definitions specified by 3S 111. Adm. Code 201 and 211. contaminants established for the purpose of protecting public .health and welfare. The levels of air quality.designated by the staiidards.are designed to protect against injury to human, plahtor animal life and they are further intended to allow maximum enjoyment, of life and property consistent with the intent- of- the Act. :b) 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 aust. as-a minimum, provide air which will not adversely affect, through acute or chronic symptom, the health of the comiunity. Adverse, health effects include not only the possible production and aggravation of disease, but also, interference with bodily functions.. The standards have also taken Into account soiling, corrosion, vegetation, damage and^other human effects- c) Primary ambient air qua.IHy standards define levels of air quality which are necessary. < with; an adequate margin pf $afety. to protect the public health. Secondary.ambient air ' qualify' standards defTne-levels of air -- quality which are necessary to protect the. public .welfare from any knoim or anticipated ' adverse effects 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 wider the .Act. . The standards have also been designed for use is a basis 1 for the 'development of Implementation plans ' . by State and local agencies for the abatement i and control of. pollutant emtss.lans. from . existing squrces. and for the determination of air contaminant emission limitations to i Insure that population and economic growth | trends do not add to the region's air pollution problems. Section 243.103 Applicability I * The standards in this Part - are appHeaMe^ 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 .their adopt lofi,,wlT1 be maintained In Its present high quality. Such ambient air quality shall not be lowered unless and; until It is proved to the IllinoisEnvironmental Protection Agency (Agency) that such change Is justifiable as a result of necessary economic and social development and -will not Interfere with or.become Injurious to human health or welfare. Section 243.102 Preamble a) Air quality standards are limits on atmospheric concentrations of air Section 241.106 Monitoring Pollution levels will he determined by fixed or mobile sampling stations beyond the premises on 178