The North Carolina Division of Air Quality's air toxics program is a "risk-based" regulatory program designed to protect the public health by limiting emissions of toxic air pollutants from man-made sources. Some of the program's activities include:

• Assessing Emissions through:

  • monitoring and measuring air quality for toxic air pollutants
  • compliance activities such as intensive inspections and investigations
  • air dispersion modeling and
  • special studies;
  
  

• Performing risk assessments and program planning activities to focus efforts toward the reduction of exposures and emissions;

• Developing and implementing control strategies for toxic or hazardous air pollutants;

• Education and outreach activities

• Emergency air monitoring to rapidly bring air toxics expertise to communities during potentially toxic events