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Good Practice Guide for Assessing Discharges to Air from Industry

Acknowledgements

Foreword by the Ministry

1 Introduction

2 Legislative Context

3 Assessing Discharges to Air: General Considerations

4 The Assessment Process

5 Air Quality Criteria

6 Tier 1 Preliminary Assessment

7 Tier 2 Screening Assessment

8 Tier 3 Full Assessment

Appendix 1: Assessment Checklist

Appendix 2: NO to NO₂ Conversion

References

References

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