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EPA Designates Nonattainment Areas For 2008 Ozone Pollution Standard
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On May 1 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated nonattainment areas for the 2008 ozone pollution standard, including 17 counties in Pennsylvania. Those areas, all considered Marginal Nonattainment, are:
-- Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton: Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton counties;
-- Lancaster: Lancaster County;
-- Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia counties;
-- Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland counties; and
-- Reading: Berks County.
EPA believes Marginal Nonattainment areas will be able to meet the 2008 standard within three years, usually as a result of recent and pending federal pollution control measures.
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