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Air Quality Index for Ozone
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AIR QUALITY
INDEX
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Index Value
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Descriptors
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Cautionary Statements for Ozone
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0 to 50
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Good
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None.
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51 to 100
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Moderate
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Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting
prolonged outdoor exertion.
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101 to 150
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Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
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Active children and adults, and people with respiratory
disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
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151 to 200
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Unhealthy
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Active children and adults, and people with respiratory
disease, such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion; everyone
else, especially children, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
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201 to 300
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Very Unhealthy
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Active children and adults,
and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid all
outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit outdoor
exertion.
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Things you can do to reduce ground level ozone concentration:
- Reduce driving! Carpool, use public
transportation, walk, or bicycle to reduce ozone pollution, especially on
hot summer days.
- Reduce air pollution from cars,
trucks, gas-powered lawn and garden equipment, boats and other engines by
keeping equipment properly tuned and maintained.
- During the summer, fill your gas tank
during the cooler evening hours and be careful not to spill gasoline.
- Help electric utilities reduce ozone
air pollution by conserving energy at home and the office.
- Consider setting your thermostat a
little higher in the summer.
- Use low VOC paints and solvents. And
be sure to read labels for proper use and disposal.
- Use household and garden chemicals
wisely.