---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7514"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7514"
heading: "Plan submission deadlines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7514"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs and Activities"
  - "Part D — Plan Requirements for Nonattainment Areas"
  - "Subpart 5 — additional provisions for areas designated nonattainment for sulfur oxides, nitrogen dioxide, or lead"
---

# §7514. Plan submission deadlines

- (a) **Submission—** Any [State](/usc/42/7602.md?p=d) containing an area designated or redesignated under [section 7407(d) of this title](/usc/42/7407.md?p=d) as nonattainment with respect to the national primary ambient air quality standards for sulfur oxides, nitrogen dioxide, or lead subsequent to November 15, 1990, shall submit to the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a), within 18 months of the designation, an [applicable implementation plan](/usc/42/7602.md?p=q) meeting the requirements of this part.
- (b) **States lacking fully approved State implementation plans—** Any [State](/usc/42/7602.md?p=d) containing an area designated nonattainment with respect to national primary ambient air quality standards for sulfur oxides or nitrogen dioxide under [section 7407(d)(1)(C)(i) of this title](/usc/42/7407.md?p=d-1-C-i), but lacking a fully approved implementation plan complying with the requirements of this chapter (including this part) as in effect immediately before November 15, 1990, shall submit to the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a), within 18 months of November 15, 1990, an implementation plan meeting the requirements of subpart 1 (except as otherwise prescribed by [section 7514a of this title](/usc/42/7514a.md)).

## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, § 191, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title I, § 106, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2463.)