---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7651m"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7651m"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7651m"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter IV–A — Acid Deposition Control"
---

# §7651m. Enforcement


It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/42/7602.md?p=e) subject to this subchapter to violate any prohibition of, requirement of, or regulation promulgated pursuant to this subchapter shall be a [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) of this chapter.[^1] In addition to the other requirements and prohibitions provided for in this subchapter, the operation of any [affected unit](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=2) to emit sulfur dioxide in excess of [allowances](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=3) held for such [unit](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=15) shall be deemed a [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c), with each ton emitted in excess of [allowances](/usc/42/7651a.md?p=3) held constituting a separate [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c).


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.

## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title IV, § 401, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2625.)