Indiana prepared for stricter ozone standards

INDIANA - On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) revised the 8-hour ozone standard. It could affect 25 counties in Indiana, designating them as nonattainment under the new standard. However, programs already in place could help all but nine of those counties meet the new standard as early as 2009.

IDEM will work with communities and will petition the U.S. EPA to recognize a community's attainment status as soon as their air quality meets the healthy air standard.        

Air regulations already in place, such as the clean air interstate rule, and several proposed regulations, will help Indiana's counties to come into compliance with the new ozone standard.

A map showing how the new ozone standard may affect Indiana can be found at http://www.in.gov/idem/air/prop_standard_075.jpg or http://www.in.gov/idem/air/prop_standard_075.doc

Source: Indiana Department of Environmental Management - IDEM

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