part_subject: "CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM AIRCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT ENGINES"
subpart_code: "D"
subpart_subject: "Exhaust Emissions (In-Use Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines)"
section_number: "87.31"
section_subject: "Standards for exhaust emissions."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 87.31"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 87 to 95"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2017"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2017"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)Exhaust emissions of smoke from each in-use aircraft gas turbine engine of Class T8, beginning February 1, 1974, shall not exceed: Smoke number of 30.
(b)Exhaust emissions of smoke from each in-use aircraft gas turbine engine of class TF and of rated output of 129 kilonewtons thrust or greater, beginning January 1, 1976, shall not exceed:
(c)The standards set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section refer to exhaust smoke emissions emitted during operations of the engine as specified in the applicable section of subpart H of this part, and measured and calculated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this subpart.