Part 51 - Requirements for Preparation, Adoption, and Submittal of Implementation Plans  


Subpart A - Air Emissions Reporting Requirements
Specific Reporting Requirements
§ 51.15 - What data does my state need to report to EPA?
§ 51.20 - What are the emission thresholds that separate point and nonpoint sources?
§ 51.25 - What geographic area must my state's inventory cover?
§ 51.30 - When does my state report which emissions data to EPA?
§ 51.35 - How can my state equalize the emission inventory effort from year to year?
§ 51.40 - In what form and format should my state report the data to EPA?
§ 51.45 - Where should my state report the data?
§ 51.50 - What definitions apply to this subpart?
General Information for Inventory Preparers
§ 51.1 - Who is responsible for actions described in this subpart?
§ 51.5 - What tools are available to help prepare and report emissions data?
§ 51.10 - [Reserved]
Appendix A to Subpart A of Part 51 - Tables
Subpart AA - Provisions for Implementation of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards
§ 51.1100 - Definitions.
§ 51.1101 - Applicability of part 51.
§ 51.1102 - Classification and nonattainment area planning provisions.
§ 51.1103 - Application of classification and attainment date provisions in CAA section 181 to areas subject to § 51.1102.
§ 51.1104 - [Reserved]
§ 51.1105 - Transition from the 1997 ozone NAAQS to the 2008 ozone NAAQS and anti-backsliding.
§ 51.1106 - Redesignation to nonattainment following initial designations.
§ 51.1107 - Determining eligibility for 1-year attainment date extensions for the 2008 ozone NAAQS under CAA section 181(a)(5).
§ 51.1108 - Modeling and attainment demonstration requirements.
§ 51.1109 - [Reserved]
§ 51.1110 - Requirements for reasonable further progress (RFP).
§ 51.1111 - [Reserved]
§ 51.1112 - Requirements for reasonably available control technology (RACT) and reasonably available control measures (RACM).
§ 51.1113 - Section 182(f) NOX exemption provisions.
§ 51.1114 - New source review requirements.
§ 51.1115 - Emissions inventory requirements.
§ 51.1116 - Requirements for an Ozone Transport Region.
§ 51.1117 - Fee programs for Severe and Extreme nonattainment areas that fail to attain.
§ 51.1118 - Suspension of SIP planning requirements in nonattainment areas that have air quality data that meet an ozone NAAQS.
§ 51.1119 - Applicability.
§§ 51.1104--52.1119 - xxx
Subpart BB - Data Requirements for Characterizing Air Quality for the Primary SO2 NAAQS
§ 51.1200 - Definitions.
§ 51.1201 - Purpose.
§ 51.1202 - Applicability.
§ 51.1203 - Air agency requirements.
§ 51.1204 - Enforceable emission limits providing for attainment.
§ 51.1205 - Ongoing data requirements.
Subparts B--E - XXX
Subpart CC - Provisions for Implementation of the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards
§ 51.1300 - Definitions.
§ 51.1301 - Applicability of this part.
§ 51.1302 - Classification and nonattainment area planning provisions.
§ 51.1303 - Application of classification and attainment date provisions in CAA section 181 to areas subject to § 51.1302.
§ 51.1304 - xxx
§ 51.1305 - xxx
§ 51.1306 - xxx
§ 51.1307 - xxx
§ 51.1308 - xxx
§ 51.1309 - [Reserved]
§ 51.1310 - xxx
§ 51.1311 - [Reserved]
§ 51.1312 - xxx
§ 51.1313 - xxx
§ 51.1314 - xxx
§ 51.1315 - xxx
§ 51.1316 - xxx
§ 51.1317 - xxx
§ 51.1318 - xxx
§ 51.1319 - [Reserved]
§§ 51.1304--51.1305 - [Reserved]
Subpart F - Procedural Requirements
§ 51.100 - Definitions.
§ 51.101 - Stipulations.
§ 51.102 - Public hearings.
§ 51.103 - Submission of plans, preliminary review of plans.
§ 51.104 - Revisions.
§ 51.105 - Approval of plans.
Subpart G - Control Strategy
§ 51.110 - Attainment and maintenance of national standards.
§ 51.111 - Description of control measures.
§ 51.112 - Demonstration of adequacy.
§ 51.113 - [Reserved]
§ 51.114 - Emissions data and projections.
§ 51.115 - Air quality data and projections.
§ 51.116 - Data availability.
§ 51.117 - Additional provisions for lead.
§ 51.118 - Stack height provisions.
§ 51.119 - Intermittent control systems.
§ 51.120 - Requirements for State Implementation Plan revisions relating to new motor vehicles.
§ 51.121 - Findings and requirements for submission of State implementation plan revisions relating to emissions of nitrogen oxides.
§ 51.122 - Emissions reporting requirements for SIP revisions relating to budgets for NOX emissions.
§ 51.123 - Findings and requirements for submission of State implementation plan revisions relating to emissions of oxides of nitrogen pursuant to the Clean Air Interstate Rule.
§ 51.124 - Findings and requirements for submission of State implementation plan revisions relating to emissions of sulfur dioxide pursuant to the Clean Air Interstate Rule.
§ 51.125 - [Reserved]
§ 51.126 - Determination of widespread use of ORVR and waiver of CAA section 182(b)(3) Stage II gasoline vapor recovery requirements.
Subpart H - Prevention of Air Pollution Emergency Episodes
§ 51.150 - Classification of regions for episode plans.
§ 51.151 - Significant harm levels.
§ 51.152 - Contingency plans.
§ 51.153 - Reevaluation of episode plans.
Subpart I - Review of New Sources and Modifications
§ 51.160 - Legally enforceable procedures.
§ 51.161 - Public availability of information.
§ 51.162 - Identification of responsible agency.
§ 51.163 - Administrative procedures.
§ 51.164 - Stack height procedures.
§ 51.165 - Permit requirements.
§ 51.166 - Prevention of significant deterioration of air quality.
Subpart J - Ambient Air Quality Surveillance
§ 51.190 - Ambient air quality monitoring requirements.
Subpart K - Source Surveillance
§ 51.210 - General.
§ 51.211 - Emission reports and recordkeeping.
§ 51.212 - Testing, inspection, enforcement, and complaints.
§ 51.213 - Transportation control measures.
§ 51.214 - Continuous emission monitoring.
Subpart L - Legal Authority
§ 51.230 - Requirements for all plans.
§ 51.231 - Identification of legal authority.
§ 51.232 - Assignment of legal authority to local agencies.
Subpart M - Intergovernmental Consultation
Agency Designation
§ 51.240 - General plan requirements.
§ 51.241 - Nonattainment areas for carbon monoxide and ozone.
§ 51.242 - [Reserved]
Subpart N - Compliance Schedules
§ 51.260 - Legally enforceable compliance schedules.
§ 51.261 - Final compliance schedules.
§ 51.262 - Extension beyond one year.
Subpart O - Miscellaneous Plan Content Requirements
§ 51.280 - Resources.
§ 51.281 - Copies of rules and regulations.
§ 51.285 - Public notification.
§ 51.286 - Electronic reporting.
Subpart P - Protection of Visibility
§ 51.300 - Purpose and applicability.
§ 51.301 - Definitions.
§ 51.302 - Reasonably attributable visibility impairment.
§ 51.303 - Exemptions from control.
§ 51.304 - Identification of integral vistas.
§ 51.305 - Monitoring for reasonably attributable visibility impairment.
§ 51.306 - [Reserved]
§ 51.307 - New source review.
§ 51.308 - Regional haze program requirements.
§ 51.309 - Requirements related to the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission.
Subpart Q - Reports
Air Quality Data Reporting
§ 51.320 - Annual air quality data report.
Source Emissions and State Action Reporting
§ 51.321 - Annual source emissions and State action report.
§ 51.322 - Sources subject to emissions reporting.
§ 51.323 - Reportable emissions data and information.
§ 51.324 - Progress in plan enforcement.
§ 51.326 - Reportable revisions.
§ 51.327 - Enforcement orders and other State actions.
§ 51.328 - [Reserved]
Subpart R - Extensions
§ 51.341 - Request for 18-month extension.
Subpart S - Inspection/Maintenance Program Requirements
§ 51.350 - Applicability.
§ 51.351 - Enhanced I/M performance standard.
§ 51.352 - Basic I/M performance standard.
§ 51.353 - Network type and program evaluation.
§ 51.354 - Adequate tools and resources.
§ 51.355 - Test frequency and convenience.
§ 51.356 - Vehicle coverage.
§ 51.357 - Test procedures and standards.
§ 51.358 - Test equipment.
§ 51.359 - Quality control.
§ 51.360 - Waivers and compliance via diagnostic inspection.
§ 51.361 - Motorist compliance enforcement.
§ 51.362 - Motorist compliance enforcement program oversight.
§ 51.363 - Quality assurance.
§ 51.364 - Enforcement against contractors, stations and inspectors.
§ 51.365 - Data collection.
§ 51.366 - Data analysis and reporting.
§ 51.367 - Inspector training and licensing or certification.
§ 51.368 - Public information and consumer protection.
§ 51.369 - Improving repair effectiveness.
§ 51.370 - Compliance with recall notices.
§ 51.371 - On-road testing.
§ 51.372 - State Implementation Plan submissions.
§ 51.373 - Implementation deadlines.
Appendix B to Subpart S - Test Procedures
Appendix C to Subpart S - Steady-State Short Test Standards
Appendix D to Subpart S - Steady-State Short Test Equipment
Appendix E to Subpart S - Transient Test Driving Cycle
Appendix A to Subpart S of Part 51 - Calibrations, Adjustments and Quality Control
Appendix B to Subpart S of Part 51 - Test Procedures
Appendix C to Subpart S of Part 51 - Steady-State Short Test Standards
Appendix D to Subpart S of Part 51 - Steady-State Short Test Equipment
Appendix E to Subpart S of Part 51 - Transient Test Driving Cycle
Subpart T - Conformity to State or Federal Implementation Plans of Transportation Plans, Programs, and Projects Developed, Funded or Approved Under Title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Laws
§ 51.390 - Implementation plan revision.
§ 51.392 - Definitions.
§ 51.394 - Applicability.
§ 51.396 - Implementation plan revision.
§ 51.398 - Priority.
§ 51.400 - Frequency of conformity determinations.
§ 51.402 - Consultation.
§ 51.404 - Content of transportation plans.
§ 51.406 - Relationship of transportation plan and TIP conformity with the NEPA process.
§ 51.408 - Fiscal constraints for transportation plans and TIPs.
§ 51.410 - Criteria and procedures for determining conformity of transportation plans, programs, and projects: General.
§ 51.412 - Criteria and procedures: Latest planning assumptions.
§ 51.414 - Criteria and procedures: Latest emissions model.
§ 51.416 - Criteria and procedures: Consultation.
§ 51.418 - Criteria and procedures: Timely implementation of TCMs.
§ 51.420 - Criteria and procedures: Currently conforming transportation plan and TIP.
§ 51.422 - Criteria and procedures: Projects from a plan and TIP.
§ 51.424 - Criteria and procedures: Localized CO and PM10 violations (hot spots).
§ 51.426 - Criteria and procedures: Compliance with PM10 control measures.
§ 51.428 - Criteria and procedures: Motor vehicle emissions budget (transportation plan).
§ 51.430 - Criteria and procedures: Motor vehicle emissions budget (TIP).
§ 51.432 - Criteria and procedures: Motor vehicle emissions budget (project not from a plan and TIP).
§ 51.434 - Criteria and procedures: Localized CO violations (hot spots) in the interim period.
§ 51.436 - Criteria and procedures: Interim period reductions in ozone and CO areas (transportation plan).
§ 51.438 - Criteria and procedures: Interim period reductions in ozone and CO areas (TIP).
§ 51.440 - Criteria and procedures: Interim period reductions for ozone and CO areas (project not from a plan and TIP).
§ 51.442 - Criteria and procedures: Interim period reductions for PM10 and NO2 areas (transportation plan).
§ 51.444 - Criteria and procedures: Interim period reductions for PM10 and NO2 areas (TIP).
§ 51.446 - Criteria and procedures: Interim period reductions for PM10 and NO2 areas (project not from a plan and TIP).
§ 51.448 - Transition from the interim period to the control strategy period.
§ 51.450 - Requirements for adoption or approval of projects by recipients of funds designated under title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Act.
§ 51.452 - Procedures for determining regional transportation-related emissions.
§ 51.454 - Procedures for determining localized CO and PM10 concentrations (hot-spot analysis).
§ 51.456 - Using the motor vehicle emissions budget in the applicable implementation plan (or implementation plan submission).
§ 51.458 - Enforceability of design concept and scope and project-level mitigation and control measures.
§ 51.460 - Exempt projects.
§ 51.462 - Projects exempt from regional emissions analyses.
§ 51.464 - Special provisions for nonattainment areas which are not required to demonstrate reasonable further progress and attainment.
Subpart U - Economic Incentive Programs
§ 51.490 - Applicability.
§ 51.491 - Definitions.
§ 51.492 - State program election and submittal.
§ 51.493 - State program requirements.
§ 51.494 - Use of program revenues.
Subpart W - Determining Conformity of General Federal Actions to State or Federal Implementation Plans
§ 51.850 - [Reserved]
§ 51.851 - State implementation plan (SIP) or Tribal implementation plan (TIP) revision.
§ 51.852 - Definitions.
§ 51.853 - Applicability.
§ 51.854 - Conformity analysis.
§ 51.855 - Reporting requirements.
§ 51.856 - Public participation.
§ 51.857 - Frequency of conformity determinations.
§ 51.858 - Criteria for determining conformity of general Federal actions.
§ 51.859 - Procedures for conformity determinations of general Federal actions.
§ 51.860 - Mitigation of air quality impacts.
Appendix B to Appendix W of Part 51 - Summaries of Alternative Air Quality Models
Appendix C to Appendix W of Part 51 - Example Air Quality Analysis Checklist
§§ 51.852--51.860 - [Reserved]
Subpart X - Provisions for Implementation of 8-hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard
§ 51.900 - Definitions.
§ 51.901 - Applicability of part 51.
§ 51.902 - Which classification and nonattainment area planning provisions of the CAA shall apply to areas designated nonattainment for the 1997 8-hour NAAQS?
§ 51.903 - How do the classification and attainment date provisions in section 181 of subpart 2 of the CAA apply to areas subject to § 51.902(a)?
§ 51.904 - How do the classification and attainment date provisions in section 172(a) of subpart 1 of the CAA apply to areas subject to § 51.902(b)?
§ 51.905 - How do areas transition from the 1-hour NAAQS to the 1997 8-hour NAAQS and what are the anti-backsliding provisions?
§ 51.906 - Redesignation to nonattainment following initial designations for the 8-hour NAAQS.
§ 51.907 - For an area that fails to attain the 8-hour NAAQS by its attainment date, how does EPA interpret sections 172(a)(2)(C)(ii) and 181(a)(5)(B) of the CAA?
§ 51.908 - What modeling and attainment demonstration requirements apply for purposes of the 8-hour ozone NAAQS?
§ 51.909 - [Reserved]
§ 51.910 - What requirements for reasonable further progress (RFP) under sections 172(c)(2) and 182 apply for areas designated nonattainment for the 8-hour ozone NAAQS?
§ 51.911 - [Reserved]
§ 51.912 - What requirements apply for reasonably available control technology (RACT) and reasonably available control measures (RACM) under the 8-hour NAAQS?
§ 51.913 - How do the section 182(f) NOX exemption provisions apply for the 8-hour NAAQS?
§ 51.914 - What new source review requirements apply for 8-hour ozone nonattainment areas?
§ 51.915 - What emissions inventory requirements apply under the 8-hour NAAQS?
§ 51.916 - What are the requirements for an Ozone Transport Region under the 8-hour NAAQS?
§ 51.917 - What is the effective date of designation for the Las Vegas, NV, 8-hour ozone nonattainment area?
§ 5.918 - xxx
§ 51.918 - Can any SIP planning requirements be suspended in 8-hour ozone nonattainment areas that have air quality data that meets the NAAQS?
§ 51.919 - Applicability.
§§ 51.909--51.916 - [Reserved]
Subpart Y - Mitigation Requirements
§ 51.930 - Mitigation of Exceptional Events.
Subpart Z - Provisions for Implementation of PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards
§ 51.1000 - Definitions.
§ 51.1001 - Applicability of part 51.
§ 51.1002 - Classifications and reclassifications.
§ 51.1003 - Attainment plan due dates and submission requirements.
§ 51.1004 - Attainment dates.
§ 51.1005 - Attainment date extensions.
§ 51.1006 - Optional PM2.5 precursor demonstrations
§ 51.1007 - [Reserved]
§ 51.1008 - Emissions inventory requirements.
§ 51.1009 - Moderate area attainment plan control strategy requirements.
§ 51.1010 - Serious area attainment plan control strategy requirements.
§ 51.1011 - Attainment demonstration and modeling requirements.
§ 51.1012 - Reasonable further progress (RFP) requirements.
§ 51.1013 - Quantitative milestone requirements.
§ 51.1014 - Contingency measure requirements.
§ 51.1015 - Clean data requirements.
§ 51.1016 - Continued applicability of the FIP and SIP requirements pertaining to interstate transport under CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) and (ii) after revocation of the 1997 primary annual PM2.5 NAAQS.
Appendix L to Part 51 - Example Regulations for Prevention of Air Pollution Emergency Episodes
Appendix M to Part 51 - Recommended Test Methods for State Implementation Plans
Appendix P to Part 51 - Minimum Emission Monitoring Requirements
Appendix S to Part 51 - Emission Offset Interpretative Ruling
Appendix V to Part 51 - Criteria for Determining the Completeness of Plan Submissions
Appendix W to Part 51 - Guideline on Air Quality Models
Appendix X to Part 51 - Examples of Economic Incentive Programs
Appendix Y to Part 51 - Guidelines for BART Determinations Under the Regional Haze Rule
Appendixes A-K to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendixes A-K to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendixes N-O to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendixes N-O to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendixes Q-R to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendixes Q-R to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendixes T-U to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendixes T-U to Part 51 - [Reserved]
Appendix A to Appendix W of Part 51 - Summaries of Preferred Air Quality Models