Definitions for "Area Source"
A source category of air pollution that generally extends over a large area. Prescribed burning, field burning, home heating, and open burning are examples of area sources.
An array of pollutant sources, so widely dispersed and uniform in strength that they can be treated in a dispersion model as an aggregate pollutant release from a defined area at a uniform rate. Compare line source and point source.
Any stationary source of hazardous air pollutants that is not a major source. For purposes of this definition, the term "area source" shall not include motor vehicles or non-road vehicles subject to regulation under Title II of the 1990 FCAA Amendments. Fed