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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on April 18

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Approval of VOC and NOx.

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 April 18

Title
Metolachlor; Extension of Tolerance for Emergency Exemptions
Flumioxazin; Pesticide Tolerances
Hexythiazox; Pesticide Tolerances
Propiconazole; Time-Limited Pesticide Tolerances
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Approval of VOC and NOX
Final Additions to the Final Guidelines for the Certification and Recertification of the Operators of Community and Nontransient Noncommunity Public Water Systems; Final Allocation Methodology for Funding to States for the Operator Certification Expense Reimbursement Grants Program
Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food
Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the State of Alabama
Notice of Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Subcommittee-Closed Meeting
State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Working Committee on Pesticide Operations and Management
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Approval of VOC and NOx