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United States Environmental
Protection Agency
Air and
Radiation
Office
of Transportation and Air Quality
EPA420-F-01-005
February
2001
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Please see the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) version
or the original for the correct formatting and layout. The
information is unchanged from the original.
Office of Transportation and Air Quality on the World Wide
WebThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office
of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) maintains a site on the
Internet's World Wide Web to provide up-to-date information on the
Federal Government's efforts to meet the mobile source provisions of
the Clean Air Act.
What does OTAQ do?OTAQ is responsible for controlling
emissions from motor vehicles, farm and construction equipment,
marine engines, aircraft, locomotives, and other mobile sources of
air pollution. OTAQ also conducts research on the effects of
different fuels on pollution from these engines.
How can I access the OTAQ Web site?You can access the OTAQ
home page directly by typing the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) http://www.epa.gov/otaq/index.htm.
You can also access it from the EPA's Internet home page at http://www.epa.gov/ by selecting
"Offices, Labs and Regions," then selecting "Air and Radiation," and
then selecting the "Automobiles" graphic.
What kind of information is available at the OTAQ Web site?
The OTAQ Web Site contains a wide variety of information:
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Consumer and educational documents such as fact sheets,
presentations, and an evironmental quiz on air pollution from
transportation sources.
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Information about emissions from cars and light trucks
including regulations, certification, fuel economy, and
inspection/maintenance.
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Heavy-duty highway engines (trucks and buses) information
including regulations, bus retrofit/rebuild, certification, and
test procedures.
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Information on nonroad engines and vehicles like lawn mowers,
boats, tractors, aircraft, etc. that covers regulations, modeling,
consumer information and certification.
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A Green Vehicle Guide to help consumers make more
environmentally-informed choices when purchasing a vehicle.
Consumers can select a vehicle model, determine how clean it is
relative to other vehicles, comparison shop for similar vehicles,
and choose the cleanest vehicle that meets their needs.
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Transportation control measures, market incentive-based
programs, and voluntary measures.
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Gasoline, diesel, fuel additives, alternative fuels, and other
fuel issues.
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Air toxic emissions.
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Motor vehicle and nonroad emission modeling software and
databases.
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Test Procedures and Laboratory Methods (fuel analysis, emission
testing, equipment calibration, maintenance, etc.).
Who would be interested in the OTAQ Web site?The
information contained on the OTAQ Web site would be of interest to
the general public, environmental groups and public interest
organizations, business and industry, and federal, state and local
government officials. As well as technical documents, there are
non-technical documents written for the average consumer.
How is the Web site organized?From the OTAQ home page, you
have two choices for finding information. You can choose a specific
emission source (e.g., fuels or vehicles), or you can choose a topic
from a set of questions (e.g., what is EPA doing to control the
pollution?).
The emission sources are divided into:
Vehicles/DrivingThe highway vehicles page (www.epa.gov/otaq/hwy.htm)
links to the following pages:
Nonroad Engines/VehiclesThe nonroad engines page (http://www.epa.gov/nonroad/)
links to the following pages:
FuelsThe fuels page (www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels.htm)
links to the following pages:
Travel ChoicesThe Transportation and Air Quality Center
home page (http://www.epa.gov/otaq/traq/).
The OTAQ home page also links to a consumer page (www.epa.gov/otaq/consumer.htm)
for concerned citizens and a page describing the office (www.epa.gov/otaq/oms-def.htm):
its organization, contacts, etc.
Another feature of the OTAQ Web site is the "What's New" page (www.epa.gov/otaq/whatsnew.htm)
which contains links and descriptions of documents added to the web
site during the last three months. 
How can I get more information?E-Mail:
OTAQ Web Manager: otaqpublicweb@epa.gov
Listserver:
The OTAQ listserver is an automated mechanism for receiving
announcements on new documents, regulations, etc. that have been
posted on the OTAQ Web site. To subscribe, send a message to: listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov.
In the body of the message, type "subscribe otaq-announce
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