CORRECTING AND REPLACING ADVISORY/EPA Official to Tour Highway Construction Site in Birmingham, Alabama, Thursday, May 13, 2004; Highlights New Clean Air Rule to Improve Air Quality.Business Editors/Environment Writers CORRECTION...by EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (May 13) --(BUSINESS WIRE) In BW5777 issued May 12, 2004: First graph, second sentence should read: During the tour, Director Banister will highlight the Agency's new Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule (sted During the tour, Director Banister will highlight the Agency's new proposed Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule). The corrected release reads: ADVISORY/EPA OFFICIAL TO TOUR HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION SITE IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Birmingham (pronounced [ˈbɝmɪŋˌhæm]) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County. , THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004; HIGHLIGHTS NEW CLEAN AIR RULE TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY EPA Region 4 Air Division Director Beverly Beverly, city (1990 pop. 38,195), Essex co., NE Mass., on Massachusetts Bay; inc. as a city 1894. Its chief manufactures are electronic and scientific equipment, consumer goods, and chemicals. Banister will tour Alabama Alabama, indigenous people of North America Alabama (ăləbăm`ə), indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Muskogean branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). DOT Highway Construction site (Corridor X Area) in Birmingham on Thursday, May 13, 2004. During the tour, Director Banister will highlight the Agency's new Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule. The new rule will cut emission levels from construction, agricultural, and industrial diesel-powered equipment by more than 90 percent. Also, the new rule will remove 99 percent of the sulfur sulfur or sulphur (sŭl`fər), nonmetallic chemical element; symbol S; at. no. 16; at. wt. 32.06; m.p. 112.8°C; (rhombic), 119.0°C; (monoclinic), about 120°C; (amorphous); b.p. 444.674°C;; sp. gr. at 20°C;, 2. in diesel fuel by 2010, resulting in dramatic reductions in soot soot, black or dull brown deposit of fine powder resulting from incomplete combustion of fuel of high carbon content, e.g., coal, wood, and oil. It consists chiefly of amorphous carbon and tarry substances that cause it to adhere to surfaces. from all diesel engines. The Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule is the latest round in EPA's decade-long effort to make diesel engines and fuels cleaner. It complements the Clean Diesel Truck and Bus Rule (announced December 21, 2000), which will put the cleanest running heavy-duty trucks and buses in history on America's roads, building a fleet that will be 95 percent cleaner than today's trucks and buses.
WHO: Officials from EPA, Alabama Department of Environmental
Management, and the Alabama Department of Transportation
WHAT: EPA to highlight new Clean Air Diesel Rule during tour of
Corridor X highway construction site.
WHERE: Alabama DOT Highway Construction site, (Corridor X)
Note: Persons attending the event should meet at the
intersection of Highway 78 and County Road 22 at 11 a.m.)
WHEN: Thursday, May 13, 2004, 11 a.m.
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