NJDEP Division of Air Quality

Our major goal is to attain and maintain clean air.

This is done by:

1. Monitoring the outdoor air (Bureau of Air Monitoring);

2. Determining if National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are exceeded (Bureau of Air Monitoring);

3. Developing plans to attain the NAAQS, including maintaining an inventory of air pollution sources in NJ (Bureau of Air Quality Planning);

4. Developing rules to limit emissions to the air from stationary, mobile and other sources of air pollution (Regulatory Development);

5. Evaluating and deciding applications for construction of new and modified stationary sources of air pollution (Air Quality Permitting Program);

6. Issuing comprehensive Operating Permits which contain all the air pollution control requirements for the approximately 300 major emitting facilities in NJ
(Air Quality Permitting Program);

7. Predicting air quality effects of sources of air pollution, including health risks (Bureau of Technical Services, Air Quality Evaluation Section);

8. Overseeing the stack testing and continuous emission monitoring of stationary sources of air pollution (Bureau of Technical Services, Stack Testing Section).

9. Overseeing the air pollution testing of gasoline motor vehicles and promoting low emission vehicles (Bureau of Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance); and

10. Regulating diesel particulate emissions with a particulate filter retrofit program, anti idling program, and truck inspection program (Bureau of Mobile Sources ).

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For more specific information on any Air related issue, please select a Bureau/Program, Topic of Interest or Resource from the dropdowns below to visit the website specific to that choice.

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