Program: Air Quality

Lead: Rebecca Anderson
Phone: (510) 642-6568
E-mail:rander@berkeley.edu

Team: Environmental Protection
Associate Director: Greg Haet

Description

The EH&S Air Quality program assists campus in air pollution prevention and provides compliance assistance on Bay Area Air Quality Management District and other Clean Air Act laws and regulations. Program activities include sampling outdoor air, gathering meteorological data, assessing air toxic risk to the community surrounding the campus, responding to releases, assisting with BAAQMD Permit to Operate administration, and developing regulatory programs and informational guidelines. If you would like more information on campus air emissions, please contact Rebecca Anderson.

Resources

Report: Review of California Air Resources Control Board (CARB) Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) & Fluorinated Gas Regulations (PDF)
This report reviews these regulations and provides information on how campus entities can maintain compliance. Please contact Rebecca Anderson at rander@berkeley.edu with any questions.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is enacting regulations to reduce the emissions of Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) and other fluorinated gases as part of the Global Warming Solutions Act. There are currently three regulations in various stage of development affecting these gases:

1. SF6 Emission Reductions from the Electricity Sector & Particle Accelerators
2. SF6 Reductions from Non-Electric and Non-Semiconductor Applications
3. SF6 and Fluorinated Gas Use in Semiconductor and Related Devices Operations

Fact Sheet: Guidelines for Minimizing Toxic Air Contaminant Emissions from Laboratories (PDF)
This help sheet outlines how to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants by following the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's "Reasonable Laboratory Management Practices."

Guidelines: Guidelines for Control of Air Emissions from Surface Coating Operations
Newly revised guidelines plus six appendices cover permits; purchasing requirements; health, safety, and storage considerations; BAAQMD rules and regulations; tables of air emission limits, and more. A PDF file (68K) is available to download using Acrobat Reader.

Web page: Spare the Air
Information provided by EH&S for campus to check Bay Area air quality status and see what you can do to help.