(AIRPOL) Clean Air Act

• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE LAW 

  May 10, 1999- Manuel B. Villar, Congress
• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE LAW 

  May 13, 1999- Marcelo B. Fernan, Senate
• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE LAW 

  June 23, 1999- President Joseph Ejercito Estrada
• FACTS ABOUT RA 8749 

  Piece of legislation for the reduction of smog and air pollution in general 
• FACTS ABOUT RA 8749 

  Related to the improvement of human health and longer life spans 
• FACTS ABOUT RA 8749 

  Critics and Defenders of the Law 
• FACTS ABOUT RA 8749 

  Implemented in the Philippines through DENR EMB
• MAIN FOCUS OF THE LAW 

  Regulation of equipment and machine installations through a permitting system
• MAIN FOCUS OF THE LAW 

  Monitoring actual emissions 
• MAIN FOCUS OF THE LAW 

  Shift of pollution abatement strategy from control to prevention
• SECTION 11. AIR QUALITY CONTROL TECHNIQUES 

  Release/Issuance to the general public and its revision of the information on Air Pollution Control Technique
• SECTION 12. AMBIENT AIR QUALITY GUIDELINE VALUES AND STANDARDS 

  Review, revision and annual publication of Hazardous Air Pollutant List
• SECTION 13. EMISSION CHARGE SYSTEM 

  Imposition and collection of regular emission fees from dischargers 
• SECTION 13. EMISSION CHARGE SYSTEM 

  Fees based on toxicity and volume of emitted pollutants 
• SECTION 13. EMISSION CHARGE SYSTEM 

  Granting tax incentives to industries with installed pollution control devices
• SECTION 14. AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT FUND 

  Establishment of Air Quality Management Fund to finance operations on air pollution abatement/control 
• SECTION 14. AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT FUND 

  Air Quality Management Fund will come from emission fees, licenses and permits issuance proceeds, donations and contributions
• SECTION 15. AIR POLLUTION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 

  Formation of National Research and Development Program focusing on control and prevention of air pollution through improved methods and technologies
• SECTION 20. BAN ON INCINERATION 

  Ban on incineration with exception to small-scale “siga”, crematoria and the likes 
• SECTION 20. BAN ON INCINERATION 

  Several incineration units are limited to operation for pathological and infectious waste; subjected to close watch of DENR-EMB 
• SECTION 20. BAN ON INCINERATION 

  Promotion of safe, non-burn technologies for handling, treatment and disposal of municipal, biomedical and hazardous waste 
• SECTION 20. BAN ON INCINERATION 

  LGU’s are to promote and implement ecological waste management including segregation, recycling and composting
• SECTION 24. POLLUTION FROM SMOKING 

  Prohibition of smoking in any public place as to be implemented by LGU’s
• SECTION 30. OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES 

  to phase out Ozone Depleting Substances and release a list of substances harmful to the stratospheric ozone layer
• SECTION 31. GREENHOUSE GASES 

  Monitoring of meteorological conditions including GHG and ODS by PAGASA and cooperating with DENR to abate such harmful substances
• SECTION 32. PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS 

  To reduce and eliminate POPs via long term and short term programs 
• SECTION 32. PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS 

  Establish an inventory list of all sources of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the country
• SECTION 33. RADIOACTIVE EMISSION 

  Regulation of all nuclear projects by Philippine Nuclear Research Institute with DENR