With a vote of 11-0, the Indiana Air Pollution Control Board adopted the Indiana Nitrogen Oxides Control Rule in June, 2001. The rule will require the state’s electric and other industrial facilities to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions as much as 66 percent by 2004. The rule will also establish a cap and trade emission allowance program that permits the trading of nitrogen oxide allowances between facilities; provide incentives for energy efficiency and renewable sources of power; create a continuous emission monitoring system to ensure compliance among most large emitters for nitrogen oxides emission requirements; and set control requirements for large cement kilns that require either the use of specified technology or an emissions reduction of 30 percent.
The Indiana Nitrogen Oxides Control Rule was developed in response to a federal rule passed in 1998 that requires twenty-two states and the District of Columbia to submit state implementation plans to reduce the regional transport of ozone and to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions in the affected states.
For more information and a PDF copy of the Indiana Nitrogen Oxides Reduction Rule, contact the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
