Pennsylvania Code
Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Part I - Department of Environmental Protection
Subpart A - Preliminary Provisions
Article I - Administrative Provisions
Chapter 9 - ENVIRONMENTAL MASTER PLAN
Subchapter B - POLICIES FOR CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AREAS
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES FOR CLEAN AIR RESOURCE AREAS
Section 9.162 - Prevention of degradation

(a) Protecting clean air resource areas from being degraded to the level of the secondary standards will set certain limitations on future development activities. In order to have an effective program to protect clean air resource areas, it is necessary to establish a rational procedure for the protection of environmental values in these areas.

(b) It shall be the environmental policy of the Commonwealth to protect clean air resource areas by preventing the significant degradation of air quality to existing federal secondary standards.