The most important problem of the city is that of economic entities with emission sources, developing projects of maximum permissible emissions (MPE) on their own sources of emissions, and the effect of summation of pollutants from all sources combined into the atmosphere of the city today moment, unfortunately, has not been investigated. An inventory of sources of emission of pollutants into the air, the optimization of observation posts and conduct the calculation of the dispersion of pollutants in Volgograd help to display detailed picture of air pollution in the city. Some problems in the development of a consolidated draft MPE invited to use the balance sheet liability method of pollutants in the city.

Keywords: pollution, the project of maximum permissible emission inventory of emission sources, pollutants, background contamination, the observation posts, balance method, rate limitation of the volume of seizures of oxygen