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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Aug. 16

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on Aug. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants; Analytical Methods for Biological Pollutants in Wastewater and Sewage Sludge; Proposed Rule.

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. 16

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Iowa
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Oklahoma; Attainment Demonstration for the Central Oklahoma Early Action Compact Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Iowa
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From Glass Manufacturing Plants (Renewal), ICR Number 1081.08, OMB Number 2060-0043
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement; the General Motors Corporation-Central Foundry Division Superfund Site, Massena, St. Lawrence County, NY
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Sulfuric Acid Plants (Renewal), ICR Number 1057.10, OMB Number 2060-0041
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; RCRA Expanded Public Participation (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1688.05, OMB Control Number 2050-0149
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Assessment of Indoor Air Quality Outreach Products and Services, EPA ICR Number 2190.01
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Radionuclides, (Renewal) EPA ICR Number 1100.12, OMB Control Number 2060-0191
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review and Approval; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions for Polyether Polyol Production, ICR Number 1811.05, OMB Number 2060-0415
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants; Analytical Methods for Biological Pollutants in Wastewater and Sewage Sludge; Proposed Rule
Clean Air Act Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plan Revision for Colorado; Long-Term Strategy of State Implementation Plan for Class 1 Visibility Protection
Identification of Ozone Areas for Which the 1-Hour Standard Has Been Revoked and Technical Correction to Phase 1 Rule