Puget Sound Clean Air Agency

Find Regulations

We encourage affected business owners and citizens to become familiar with our regulations. You may view/download our current regulations below, or to request a copy be mailed to you, call 206.343.8800 or 800.552.3565.

Our regulations are periodically updated. Articles marked with an asterisk (*) were revised recently and are in effect as of November 1, 2009. If you previously downloaded a set of regulations, you need only download the recent updates. For a summary of the recent changes, click here.

 

Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Regulations

Regulation I (PDF 1.4MB)

1-0* Table of Contents

1-1 Policy, Short Title, and Definitions

1-2 State Environmental Policy Act

1-3* General Provisions

1-4 Variances

1-5* Registration

1-6* New Source Review

1-7 Operating Permits

1-8 Outdoor Burning

1-9 Emission Standards

1-12 Standards of Performance for CEM Systems

1-13 Solid Fuel Burning Device Standards

 

Regulation II (PDF 0.3MB)

2-0 Table of Contents

2-1 Purpose, Policy, Short Title, and Definitions

2-2 Gasoline Marketing Emission Standards

2-3 Miscellaneous VOC Emission Standards

 

Regulation III (PDF 0.5MB)

3-0* Table of Contents

3-1* General Requirements

3-2* Review of Toxic Air Contaminant Sources

3-3 Source-Specific Emission Standards

3-4 Asbestos Control Standards

 

Summary of recent regulation updates

Regulation I, sections:

  • 3.11 (increased maximum civil penalty amount)
  • 3.25 (updated federal regulation reference date)
  • 5.03, 6.03 (excluded certain newly promulgated EPA regulations from our EPA delegation request)
  • 6.01 (incorporated Ecology's newly promulgated update to WAC 173-400-110 and 173-460 into agency regulations)

Regulation III, sections:

  • 1.08, 1.11, 2.05, 2.07 (incorporated Ecology's newly promulgated update to WAC 173-400-110 and 173-460 into agency regulations)
  • 2.02 (excluded certain newly promulgated EPA regulations from our EPA delegation request)
  • Appendix A (repealed this section)

Current proposals to change our regulations

The Board of Directors of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency holds public hearings to consider changes to our regulations during its regularly scheduled meetings. When a public hearing is scheduled, information is located on the Public Hearings page.

Change notification service

Do you want to be notified of regulation changes when they are proposed and when they happen? Join our e-mail list, and be sure to select the regulation updates interest area when you sign up.

View the Washington Administrative Code

Some of our regulations refer to the Washington Administrative Code, or WAC. You can read the complete text of the state air-quality WACs cited in our regulations by going to the Department of Ecology's Laws and Rules.

Questions for Clean Air Agency staff

If you have any questions about regulations, please contact our customer service representatives at 206.343.8800 or 800.552.3565. Or to contact us by e-mail, direct your request to our Topical Directory page.