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Environmental Management and Coordination (Air Quality) Regulations, Legal Notice no. 34 of 2014.

Country
Type of law
Regulation
Source

Abstract
These Regulations, divided into thirteen Parts, and made under section 147 of the Environmental Management and Coordination Act, no. 8 of 1999, provide for the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution to ensure clean and healthy ambient air. The Regulations apply to: all internal combustion engines; all premises, places, processes, operations, or works to which the provisions of the Act apply, except: traditional and cultural burning of savanna grasslands, burning for purposes of public health protection, back-burning to control or suppress wildfires, emissions of air pollutants from selected stationary and mobile sources. Matters covered by these Regulations include: general prohibitions concerning air pollution; ambient air quality standards; permissible levels; emission standards; classification of priority air pollutants; controlled and protected areas; emissions from mobile sources, such as internal combustion engines, motor vehicles; exposure levels; exposure to hazardous substances; emission of particulate matters from construction materials and demolitions; emissions from waste incinerators; emissions of nitrogen oxides; cross-border air pollution; issuance and procedures for emission licences; methods of measurement and analysis of air pollutants; monitoring of ambient air quality; assessment of air quality and of stationery sources; submission of emission assessment and atmospheric impact report; guidelines for monitoring air pollutants; air pollution control technologies for mitigation of greenhouse gases; environmental charges for pollution; offences and penalties.
Date of text
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Kenya Gazette Supplement no. 41 of 11 April 2014.
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No