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• Air Permitting in Construction Permitting Guidance Matrix
• Ozone Depleting Substances Management Program

Forms

• Boilers (Heat Input >= 3 MMBtu/Hr) Compliance Checklist
• Chloroflurocarbon (CFC) Refrigerant Management Practice Compliance Checklist
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• Air Emissions Program Fact Sheet
• Air Quality FAQs

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• International
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
• Federal / Regional
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • EPA's Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Information
  • EPA's Pollution Prevention (P2)
  • Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
  • Air Toxics
  • EPA - Region 1 (New England)
  • New England Ground-Level Ozone Information
  • Maps of High Ozone Days This Summer in New England
  • Ground-Level Ozone Air Quality Guide
  • Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI or "ReGGIe")
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  • MassDEP's Air Quality Forecast
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  • DEP Division of Air Quality Control
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Air Emissions

There are many activities at Harvard University that have the potential to create air emissions that are regulated by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MADEP) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These activities include: laboratory research operations and maintenance of equipment and buildings. The MADEP and the EPA regulate the type and quantity of air pollutants released to the environmental from specific activities and emission sources. The regulations specify when a permit is needed and the permit requires facilities to implement procedures to help control and reduce air pollution. Harvard is also required to monitor air emissions under the permit.

Harvard EH&S can offer many services related to the air emissions program, these include: selecting a vendor or equipment; determining permit applicability; preparing permit applications and negotiating permit conditions; conducting air emissions inventories; completing air emission inventories and reports; coordinating with regulatory agencies; and completing strategic alternatives evaluations.