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Rule published on Feb. 3 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page rule on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Amendments to Volatile Organic Compound Requirements From Specific Processes.

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. 3

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Amendments to Volatile Organic Compound Requirements From Specific Processes
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; Post 1996 Rate-of-Progress Plans and One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstrations
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Alabama Update to Materials Incorporated by Reference
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Amendments to Volatile Organic Compound Requirements From Specific Processes
Agency Information Collection Activities OMB Responses
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; (OMB Control No. 2040-0095, EPA ICR No. 0909.07)
Notice of Open Meeting; Environmental Financial Advisory Board, March 4-5, 2003