Sunday, May 19, 2024

Proposed rule published on April 18 by Environmental Protection Agency

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 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Primary Lead Smelting.

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
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Louisiana; Section 110(a)(2) Infrastructure Requirements for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Primary Lead Smelting
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Washington: Extension of Comment Period
Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule-Amendments for Milk and Milk Product Containers
Finding of Substantial Inadequacy of Implementation Plan; Call for Utah State Implementation Plan Revision
Draft Toxicological Review of Methanol (Non-Cancer) in Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)