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Environmental Protection Agency publishes notice on Aug. 12

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Aug. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The notice is focused on Inadequacy Status of Submitted State Implementation Plans for Transportation Conformity Purposes.

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 Aug. 12

Title
OMB Approvals Under the Paperwork Reduction Act Relating to the Federal Test Procedure for Emissions From Motor Vehicles; Technical Amendment
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to Proposed State Operating Permit for Monroe Electrical Generating Plant Entergy Louisiana, Inc.; Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Information Collection Activities Associated With EPA's Energy Star Buildings Program
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives Health-Effects Research Requirements
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information
Request for Applications for the National Environmental Education Advisory Council
Inadequacy Status of Submitted State Implementation Plans for Transportation Conformity Purposes
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Standards of Performance for Primary and Secondary Emissions From Basic Oxygen Process Furnace at Steel Plants
Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessments and Opportunity to Comment