• You are here: EPA Home
• Reviewing NAAQS
• Ozone (O₃) Standards
• Review Completed in 1997

Ozone (O₃) Standards -
Documents from Review Completed in 1997

Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful for historical purposes. See the Ozone Standards Home Page for documents from the current review of the Ozone NAAQS.

Criteria Documents

• Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants - July 1996
  • Volume I (PDF) (426pp, 3.2 MB)
  • Volume II (PDF) (392pp, 2.6 MB)
  • Volume III (PDF) (599pp, 3.7 MB)

Staff Papers

• Final O3 NAAQS Staff Paper (PDF) (450pp, 7.1 MB) - June 1996

Technical Documents

• O3 NAAQS Outdoor Children Exposure Final Rpt (zip) - June 1996
• O3 NAAQS Outdoor Worker Exposure Final Rpt (zip) - June 1996
• O3 NAAQS General Population Exposure Final Rpt (zip) - June 1996
• Ozone NAAQS Final Health Risk Report (PDF) - June 1996
• O3 NAAQS Exposure & Health Risk Supplements (zip) - June 1996

Federal Register Notices

• 2002 Final Response to Court Remand (PDF) (33pp, 290k) - January 6, 2003
• 2001 Proposed Response to Court Remand (PDF) (26pp, 244k) - November 14, 2001
• Memo from the President: Implementation of Revised Air Quality Standards for Ozone and PM (PDF) (12pp, 916k) - July 18, 1997
• 1997 Final Decision Federal Register Notice (PDF) (41pp, 453k) - July 18, 1997
• 1996 Proposal Federal Register Notice (PDF) (36pp, 304k) - December 13, 1996

Response to Comments Documents

• Responses to Significant Comments on the 2001 Proposed Response to the Remand of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone (PDF) (28pp, 66k) - January 2003
• Responses to Significant Comments on the 1996 Proposed Rule on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone (December 13, 1996; 61 FR 65716) (PDF) (163pp, 366k) - December 1996

Regulatory Impact Analysis

• Part 1: Executive Summary/Table of Contents/Chapters 1 thru 5 (PDF) (900 K)
• Part 2: Chapters 6-10 (PDF) (1 M)
• Part 3: Chapters 11-13 (PDF) (470 K)
• Appendix A: Emissions and Air Quality Supporting Information (PDF) (120 K)
• Appendix B: Summary of Control Measures in the PM, Regional Haze and Ozone Analyses (PDF) (530 K)
• Appendix C: Costs and Benefits of Achieving the Current PM10 and Ozone Standards (PDF) (60 K)
• Appendix D: Control Cost Sensitivity Analyses (PDF) (180 K)
• Appendix E: Regional Haze Calculation Constants (PDF) (170 K)
• Appendix F: Potential Control Measures Modelled for the 2010 Full Attainment Scenario (PDF) (230 K)
• Appendix G: Administrative Burden and Costs Supporting Information (PDF) (210 K)
• Appendix H: Economic Impact Supporting Information (PDF) (460 K)
• Appendix I: Benefit Analysis Supporting Information (PDF) (150 K)
• Appendix J: Ozone Mortality Meta-Analysis (PDF) (400 K)

Litigation

• DC Circuit Court decision, March 26, 2002 (txt)
• Link to Supreme court site which contains decision - see Whitman v. American Trucking Associations.
• Summary of U.S. Supreme Court Decision (PDF) (3pp, 23k) - February 2001
• Federal government brief to Supreme Court (PDF) (70pp, 180k) - July 2000
• Federal government petition for Supreme Court review (PDF) (40pp, 105k) - January 2000
• Summary of DC Circuit Court decision on petition for rehearing (PDF) (4pp, 42k) - October 1999
• Federal government petition to DC Circuit Court for rehearing (PDF) (33pp, 92k) - June 1999
• Summary of Court of Appeals Decision (PDF) (2pp, 21k) - June 1999
• DC Circuit Court decision (txt) - May 1999

 

Area Navigation

• Reviewing NAAQS – Scientific and Technical Information Home
  
• Carbon Monoxide Standards
• Lead Standards
• Nitrogen Dioxide Primary Standards
• Nitrogen Dioxide Secondary Standards
• Ozone Standards
• Particulate Matter Standards
• Sulfur Dioxide Primary Standards
• Sulfur Dioxide Secondary Standards