Canada · United States
Air Quality Agreement - Progress Report 2006

Table of Contents (TOC)

Addendum

Request for Comments

List of Acronyms

Introduction

Section 1: Commitments

• Acid Rain Annex
  • Overview
  • Key Commitments and Progress: Sulfur Dioxide Emission Reductions
  • Key Commitments and Progress: Nitrogen Oxides Emission Reductions
  • Acid Deposition Monitoring, Modeling, Maps, and Trends
  • Emissions Monitoring
  • Preventing Air Quality Deterioration and Protecting Visibility
  • Consultation and Notification Concerning Significant Transboundary Air Pollution
• Ozone Annex
  • Overview
  • Key Commitments and Progress
  • Anticipated Additional Control Measures and Indicative Reductions
  • Reporting PEMA Emissions
  • Reporting Air Quality for All Relevant Monitors within 500 km of the Border between Canada and the United States
  • New Actions on Acid Rain, Ozone, and Particulate Matter

Section 2: Related Air Quality Efforts

• Canada-U.S. Border Air Quality Pilot Projects
  • Canada-U.S. Emissions Cap and Trading Feasibility Study
  • Georgia Basin-Puget Sound International Airshed Strategy
  • Great Lakes Basin Airshed Management Framework
• New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers

Section 3: Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Research

• Emission Inventories and Trends
• Air Quality Reporting and Mapping
• Update to the Transboundary Particulate Matter Science Assessment
• Health Effects
  • Research in the Great Lakes Basin Airshed
  • Research in the Georgia Basin-Puget Sound International Airshed
  • Canadian Air Quality Health Index
  • Canadian Air Health Indicator
  • U.S. Report on Health Effects of Ozone
  • Review of U.S. Ozone and Particulate Matter Air Quality Standards
  • U.S. Health Research
• Acid Deposition Effects
  • Aquatic Effects Research and Monitoring
  • Terrestrial Effects Research
  • Critical Loads and Exceedances
  • Recovery of Acidified Lakes and Streams

Conclusion

Canada-U.S. Air Quality Agreement Review: Third Comprehensive Assessment

• Introduction
• Issues Raised
• Conclusion

Appendix: Canada-U.S. Air Quality Committee

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