§ 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.

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