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Article: EPA: Lake County, Ind. Now Meets Health-Based Sulfur Dioxide Standard
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- U.S. Newswire
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- September 14, 2005
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CHICAGO, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region 5 announced today that all of Lake County, Ind., now
meets the health-based, outdoor air-quality standard for sulfur
dioxide.
Lake County, located in northwest Indiana, has several industrial
facilities that have substantially reduced their sulfur dioxide
emissions over the years. EPA is redesignating the county as a
sulfur dioxide attainment area based on three years of complete,
quality-assured, outdoor air monitoring data for 2002, 2003 and 2004.
The action will be published soon in the Federal Register.
EPA also approved several Indiana rules limiting sulfur dioxide
emissions and state plans to maintain ...