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Air Quality Fact

The air we breathe in the lower atmosphere is not primarily composed of oxygen. Instead it contains 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and less than 1% gases like argon and carbon dioxide.

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Wood Burning Status

The 2009-10 Winter Spare the Air season ended on February 28. There is currently no wood burning ban in place.

The Bay Area burn status will be updated daily during the 2010-11 Winter Spare the Air season beginning November 1.

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Title V Applicability Criteria

  1. Major Facility: A facility with the potential to emit pollutants equal to or greater than one or more major source thresholds as follow:
    • 100 tons per year of a criteria air pollutant (NOx, SO2, Pb, VOC, CO or PM10);
    • 10 tons per year of a Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP). (The initial list of HAPs is in CAA section 112(b), EPA has the authority to revise the list and should be consulted for the current list.); or
    • 25 tons per year of any combination of HAPs.
  2. Phase II Acid Rain Facility: An electric generation facility that combusts fossil fuel and is subject to Title IV of the federal Clean Air Act.
  3. Subject Solid Waste Incinerator Facility: Any facility that burns solid waste material (except hazardous waste as defined by RCRA) from commercial, industrial, or general public sources for which EPA has promulgated a Standard of Performance for New Stationary Source (NSPS) after November 15, 1990.
  4. Designated Facility: Any other facility that falls within a source category EPA has designated as subject to the requirements of Title V.