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Area Designations for 1997 Fine Particle (PM2.5) Standards

1997 PM2.5 Standards — Region 4 State Designations


Information provided for informational purposes only Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful for historical purposes. See the PM Designations Home Page for more recent information about PM Designations.

Boundary Designations for the 1997 PM2.5 Standard - EPA Region 4

Map showing PM2.5 designations for 1997 standard for Region 4 Map legend

This table identifies all counties EPA has designated as nonattainment. In some cases EPA designated partial counties. These are identified by a (P). If a county is not listed below, EPA has designated it as unclassifiable/attainment.

State Area Name Counties
Alabama Birmingham, AL Jefferson
Shelby
Walker (P)
Chattanooga, TN-GA Jackson (P)
Florida Entire state is attainment/unclassifiable
Georgia* Atlanta, GA Barrow
Bartow
Carroll
Cherokee
Clayton
Cobb
Coweta
DeKalb
Douglas
Fayette
Forsyth
Fulton
Gwinnett
Hall
Heard (P)
Henry
Newton
Paulding
Putnam (P)
Rockdale
Spalding
Walton
Chattanooga, TN-GA Catoosa
Walker
Floyd County, GA Floyd
Macon, GA Bibb
Monroe (P)
Kentucky Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN Boone
Campbell
Kenton
Huntington-Ashland, WV- KY-OH Boyd
Lawrence (P)
Louisville,  KY-IN Bullitt
Jefferson
Mississippi Entire state is attainment/unclassifiable
North Carolina Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point, NC Davidson
Guilford
Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC Catawba
South Carolina Entire state is attainment/unclassifiable
Tennessee Chattanooga, TN-GA Hamilton
Knoxville, TN Anderson
Blount
Knox
Loudon
Roane (P)
*See correspondence related to the April, 2005 supplemental notice for information about changes to designations since the December, 2004 action.

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