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[CITE: 42USC7427]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
            CHAPTER 85--AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
 
              Part A--Air Quality and Emission Limitations
 
Sec. 7427. Public notification


(a) Warning signs; television, radio, or press notices or information

    Each State plan shall contain measures which will be effective to 
notify the public during any calendar \1\ on a regular basis of 
instances or areas in which any national primary ambient air quality 
standard is exceeded or was exceeded during any portion of the preceding 
calendar year to advise the public of the health hazards associated with 
such pollution, and to enhance public awareness of the measures which 
can be taken to prevent such standards from being exceeded and the ways 
in which the public can participate in regulatory and other efforts to 
improve air quality. Such measures may include the posting of warning 
signs on interstate highway access points to metropolitan areas or 
television, radio, or press notices or information.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``calendar year''.
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(b) Grants

    The Administrator is authorized to make grants to States to assist 
in carrying out the requirements of subsection (a) of this section.

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, Sec. 127, as added Pub. L. 95-95, 
title I, Sec. 124, Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 725.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Aug. 7, 1977, except as otherwise expressly 
provided, see section 406(d) of Pub. L. 95-95, set out as an Effective 
Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 7401 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7410 of this title.
