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8-3-102. Ambient air quality standards — Hydrogen sulfide.
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8-3-102. Ambient air quality standards — Hydrogen sulfide.
(a) After review of scientific literature and similar standards in other states, the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission shall promulgate, through procedures set out in § 8-4-202, ambient air quality standards or other appropriate regulatory controls that will protect the public health and the environment from the emission of hydrogen sulfide.
(b)(1) Before the commission proposes an ambient standard or regulatory mechanism concerning hydrogen sulfide that will result in more stringent or restrictive control provisions than are currently provided by Division of Environmental Quality permitting practices, the commission shall direct the division to prepare, with the assistance and cooperation of state agencies with appropriate expertise, an economic impact and environmental benefit analysis justifying more stringent or restrictive operating conditions.
(2) The economic impact and environmental benefit analysis shall include without limitation the:
(A) Benefit to the public health;
(B) Preservation of environmental quality; and
(C) Cost to the regulated community and the division.
(3) The conclusions of an economic impact and environmental benefit analysis shall be included in any public notice of the proposed rulemaking and shall be subject to public comment.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 8-3-102
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8-3-102. Ambient air quality standards — Hydrogen sulfide.
(a) After review of scientific literature and similar standards in other states, the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission shall promulgate, through procedures set out in § 8-4-202, ambient air quality standards or other appropriate regulatory controls that will protect the public health and the environment from the emission of hydrogen sulfide.
(b)(1) Before the commission proposes an ambient standard or regulatory mechanism concerning hydrogen sulfide that will result in more stringent or restrictive control provisions than are currently provided by Division of Environmental Quality permitting practices, the commission shall direct the division to prepare, with the assistance and cooperation of state agencies with appropriate expertise, an economic impact and environmental benefit analysis justifying more stringent or restrictive operating conditions.
(2) The economic impact and environmental benefit analysis shall include without limitation the:
(A) Benefit to the public health;
(B) Preservation of environmental quality; and
(C) Cost to the regulated community and the division.
(3) The conclusions of an economic impact and environmental benefit analysis shall be included in any public notice of the proposed rulemaking and shall be subject to public comment.
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8-4-202. Rules.
(a) The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission is given and charged with the power and duty to adopt, modify, or repeal, after notice and public hearings, rules implementing or effectuating the powers and duties of the Division of Environmental Quality and the commission under this chapter.
(b) Without limiting the generality of this authority, these rules may, among other things, prescribe:
(1) Effluent standards specifying the maximum amounts or concentrations and the physical, thermal, chemical, biological, and radioactive nature of the contaminants that may be discharged into the waters of this state or into publicly owned treatment facilities;
(2) Requirements and standards for equipment and procedures for monitoring contaminant discharges at their sources, including publicly owned treatment facilities and industrial discharges into such facilities, the collection of samples, and the collection, reporting, and retention of data resulting from such monitoring; and
(3) Water quality standards, performance standards, and pretreatment standards.
(c)(1) Any person shall have the right to petition the commission for the issuance, amendment, or repeal of any rule. Within sixty (60) days from the date of the submission of a petition, the commission shall either institute rulemaking proceedings or give the petitioner written notice denying the petition, together with a written statement setting out the reasons for denial.
(2) In the event the petition is denied, the decision of the commission will be deemed a final order subject to appeal as provided in subdivision (d)(5) of this section.
(3) The record for appeal in a petition denial shall consist of the petition for rulemaking filed with the commission, the commission's written s
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 8-4-202
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 8-4-202. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.