Utah Division of Air Quality

2002 Statewide Emissions Inventory

The annual emissions inventory is one means used by the state to assess the level of pollutants released into the air from various sources. A group of common air pollutants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are called criteria air pollutants; these pollutants were determined based on their health and/or environmental effects. The second group of pollutants included in this series of tables are the hazardous air pollutants. This inventory summarized emissions for both criteria pollutants and hazardous air pollutants.

State Summary
This table lists all counties in Utah, and the breakdown of the criteria emissions by source: Area, Non-Road Mobile, On-Road Mobile, Biogenics, Wildfires, and Point Sources. Criteria pollutants are those for which National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) have been established. Criteria pollutants addressed in these tables are: PM10 , SOx, NOx, VOCs, and CO. The term "criteria pollutants" originated from the fact that standards are based on information published in air quality criteria documents.
State Summary - County Detail & State Summary (PDF format)
Graphics
Simple pie charts of the impact of various emission sources upon criteria pollutants (PDF format).
Area and Non-Road Mobile Summaries
These tables list the individual area emission sources by county. Area sources include non-road mobile and stationary sources too small or too numerous to be treated as individual point sources. Additionally, these emissions include biogenic sources which comprise the natural area sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and carbon monoxide (CO) and such as forest, vegetation and soils, as well as wildland fires.
On-Road Mobile Summary
This table lists the emissions from highway vehicles by county.
On-Road Mobile (PDF format)
Point Sources Summary
Point Sources include stationary industrial sources and portable equipment (crushers, asphalt plants, etc.) which may move among several counties during a given year. There are two tables to this summary; one lists the actual companies located in each county that generate the emissions, and the other provides a total of all point source emissions by county.
Point Sources - County Detail & State Summary (PDF)
Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs)
This table lists the chemicals or chemical classes widely considered to be toxic, as reported to UDAQ by stationary industrial sources. These toxic pollutants might cause cancer or have other adverse health effects. By the year 2000, all of the 188 currently defined HAPs are scheduled to have emission standards established.
HAPs by County in lbs/year (PDF)

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