United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-08-07 monographic deposited born digital 22 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-95-160 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160 P0b002ee180398daf f:ai95160 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160 AIMD-95-160 Environmental monitoring Air pollution control Reporting requirements Motor vehicle pollution control Federal/state relations Environmental law Data bases Information systems Data collection EPA Aerometric Information Retrieval System EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards California Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Michigan New York Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Letter Report AIMD The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 require the states to collect, analyze, and report information to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). An EPA draft regulation implementing the 1990 amendments would have required states to begin submitting more detailed emissions data to EPA's Aerometric Information Retrieval System that would have exceeded the agency's minimum air pollution program needs. EPA has since suspended the development of the draft regulation and is considering alternative reporting options. Most heavy emission states do not use the Aerometric Information Retrieval System to track air pollution, even though EPA designed the system for them to do so. For example, of the 10 states that are the source of nearly half of the critical pollutants emitted in this country, only one state uses the Aerometric Information Retrieval System's Facility Subsystem to monitor air pollution emissions from factories and plants. Instead, emission states rely on systems that have developed independently. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160.pdf GAO/AIMD-95-160 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-160 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-95-160; Air Pollution: EPA Data Gathering Efforts Would Have Imposed a Burden on States; Environmental monitoring Air pollution control Reporting requirements Motor vehicle pollution control Federal/state relations Environmental law Data bases Information systems Data collection EPA Aerometric Information Retrieval System EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards California Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Michigan New York Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Public Law 102-187