Saturday, May 18, 2024

Rule published on May 13 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on May 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; 1-Hour Ozone Attainment Plans, Rate-of-Progress Plans, Contingency Measures, Transportation Control Measures, VMT Offset, and 1990 Base Year Inventory.

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 May 13

Title
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information
Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments
Establishment of a Federal Advisory Committee to Examine Detection and Quantitation Approaches in Clean Water Act Programs
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Oklahoma; Attainment Demonstration for the Central Oklahoma Early Action Compact Area; Ozone
Notice of a Public Meeting To Discuss the Development of Regulations for Aircraft Public Water Systems
National Emission Standards for Pharmaceuticals Production
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Coating Manufacturing
National Emission Standards for Pharmaceuticals Production
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; 1-Hour Ozone Attainment Plans, Rate-of-Progress Plans, Contingency Measures, Transportation Control Measures, VMT Offset, and 1990 Base Year Inventory
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Coating Manufacturing
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Extension of Global Laboratory and Analytical Use Exemption for Essential Class I Ozone Depleting Substances
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Metropolitan Washington DC 1-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration Plans