Cindy Charles
Director
Anne Chamberlain
Permit Specialist
Lou Boerger
Engineering Tech
Adam Chaffin
Engineering Tech
After 4:30 p.m. this becomes our emergency contact number. Call and follow instructions.
Air Division
The Portsmouth OH Local Air Agency
The Air Division, or the Portsmouth Local Air Agency (PLAA), works as a contractual representative of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).
The PLAA monitors the compliance status of the businesses and industries with air pollution sources in the four-county region (Adams, Scioto, Lawrence, Brown, and Highland).
Additionally, the PLAA prepares permits, conducts facility inspections and reviews quarterly deviation and excess emission reports, observes source stack tests, reviews and issues or denies permission to open burn, monitors asbestos removal activities, initiates enforcement actions and responds to air quality complaints.
The PLAA also maintains continuous and intermittent monitors measuring pollutants on a daily basis throughout its four-county area in Southern Ohio. The PLAA performs anti-tampering (vehicle emission control devices) inspections and observes and validates stack (source) testing that occurs in the four-county area.
Important Resources, Links & Forms
Please review the additional information below to learn more:
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Air Quality Index
- Open Burning Information
- Notification for Demolition (Asbestos)
- Before You Light It: Know Ohio’s Open Burning Regulations
- What You Can Burn in the Neighborhood
- Burning Down the House: How Your Fire Department Can Do it Properly
- Notification Form
- Recognized horticultural, silvicultural, or range, prairie, grassland, wildlife management Notification Form
- Request Permission to Conduct Open Burning Form
605 Washington St.
Portsmouth, Oh 45662
Opening Hours:
Mon – Fri 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
After 4:30 p.m. this becomes our emergency contact number.
Call and follow instructions.
Call and follow instructions.
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