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What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on Feb. 5?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on Feb. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources: Volatile Organic Compound Emissions From the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry Wastewater; Extension of Public Comment Period.

More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 5

Title
Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources: Volatile Organic Compound Emissions From the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry Wastewater; Extension of Public Comment Period
Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement To Consider Policies, Guidance, and Processes to Minimize the Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Mining and Valley Fills in the Appalachian Coalfields
Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment and Opportunity To Comment Regarding Northeast Public Sewer District, Fenton, Missouri
Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment and Opportunity To Comment Regarding Klein Products of Kansas, Inc., Fort Scott, KS
Science Advisory Board; Notification of Three Public Meetings; February 24, February 25-26, and March 16, 1999
Science Advisory Board; Emergency Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meetings
Proposed Agreement Pursuant to 122(g)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for the MacGillis & Gibbs / Bell Lumber & Pole Site
Pesticides; Science Policy Issues Related to the Food Quality Protection Act
Issuance of an Emergency Ocean Dumping Permit to the National Science Foundation for Disposal of an Ice Pier From Its Base at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Request for Nominations to the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, New Standing Committee on Sectors
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
Pesticides: Science Policy Issues Related to the Food Quality Protection Act; Extension of Comment Period
Final guidelines for the Certification and Recertification of the Operators of Community and Nontransient Noncommunity Public Water Systems