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Rule published on Dec. 28 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page rule on Dec. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Clean Air Interstate Rule Budget Trading Programs.

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 Dec. 28

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Clean Air Interstate Rule Budget Trading Programs
National Emission Standards for Hospital Ethylene Oxide Sterilizers
Dimethenamid; Pesticide Tolerance
Revisions to Consolidated Federal Air Rule; Correction
Fluroxypyr; Pesticide Tolerance
CERCLA/EPCRA Administrative Reporting Exemption for Air Releases of Hazardous Substances From Animal Waste
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments
Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability
Draft Toxicological Review of Acrylamide: In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
Pesticides; Draft Guidance for Pesticide Registrants on Label Statements Regarding Third-Party Endorsements and Cause Marketing Claims; Extension of Comment Period
Notice of Receipt of Requests for Amendments to Delete Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations
Chloroneb; Notice of Receipt of Requests to Voluntarily Terminate Certain Uses of Pesticide Registrations
Inert Ingredients: Updates to Lists of Inert Ingredients Permitted in Pesticide Products
Review of Chemical Proposals for Addition under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; Solicitation of Information for the Development of Risk Management Evaluations and Risk Profiles
Draft List of Initial Pesticide Active Ingredients and Pesticide Inerts to be Considered for Screening under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; Extension of Comment Period
Board of Scientific Counselors, National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) Standing Subcommittee Meeting-2008
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: The 2008 Critical Use Exemption From the Phaseout of Methyl Bromide
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Area Sources: Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking Facilities