Air Pollution Control Board

Board Characteristics

Fourteen members: twelve appointed by the Governor for four-year terms and two ex officio.

Members include:

• a registered professional engineer with at least five (5) years' experience in the field of air pollution control;
• a licensed physician with experience in health effects of air contaminants;
• a person working in a field directly related to agriculture or conservation;
• a person actively working in the management of and with current full-time employment in a private manufacturing concern and have a college degree and eight (8) years of combined technical training and experience in permit compliance for Title 5 or Non-Title 5 sources for a manufacturing facility permitted in the State of Tennessee; 
• a county mayor or chief executive officer of a Tennessee county;
• a person working in municipal government;
• Two (2) persons from Tennessee industry and with current full-time employment with a private manufacturing concern and have a college degree in engineering or equal and eight (8) years of combined technical training and experience in air pollution abatement for either a Title 5 permit holder or a Non-Title 5 permitted source in the State of Tennessee;
• a person involved in the program of an institute of higher learning in the state involved in the conducting of training in air pollution evaluation and control;
• a person representing conservation interests;
• a small generator of air pollution representing automotive interests;
• a person representing environmental interests;
• Commissioners of Environment and Conservation and Economic and Community Development or their designees.

Commissioned under T.C.A. 68-201-104.

The statute authorizing this board expires June 30, 2031 and the one-year wind-down period begins.

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