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Proposed rule published on Nov. 5 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a six page proposed rule on Nov. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Massachusetts; Amendment to Massachusetts' State Implementation Plan for Transit System Improvements.

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 Nov. 5

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Connecticut; Interstate Transport of Pollution
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Massachusetts; Amendment to Massachusetts' State Implementation Plan for Transit System Improvements
Update of Continuous Instrumental Test Methods: Technical Amendments
Air Quality Designations for the Fine Particle (PM2.5
Clean Water Act Section 303(d): Availability of List Decisions
Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB) Meeting Dates, and Agenda.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (Renewal); ICR No. 0318.11; OMB Control No. 2040-0050