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Proposed rule published on Feb. 1 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Louisiana; Interstate Transport Requirements for the 2012 PM2.5.

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 Feb. 1

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Louisiana; Interstate Transport Requirements for the 2012 PM2.5
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Maryland; Control of Emissions From Existing Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incinerator Units
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Colorado; Revisions to the Transportation Conformity Consultation Process
Consolidated Rules of Practice Governing the Administrative Assessment of Civil Penalties, Issuance of Compliance or Corrective Action Orders, and the Revocation/Termination or Suspension of Permits; Procedures for Decisionmaking; Correction
Montana Second 10-Year Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan for Missoula
Air Plan Approval; Indiana; Infrastructure SIP Requirements for the 2012 PM2.5
Air Plan Approval; Illinois; Nonattainment Plans for the Lemont and Pekin SO2
Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee Augmented for the Review of EPA's Draft Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (ETBE) and tert-Butyl Alcohol (tert-butanol; tBA) Assessments
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to Proposed Permit for Alon USA-Bakersfield Refinery, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Proposed CERCLA Cost Recovery Settlement for the Facet Enterprises, Inc. Superfund Site, Elmira Heights, Chemung County, New York
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petitions for Objection to Proposed Permits for Linn Operating, Inc.-Fairfield Lease and Ethyl D Lease, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Dicloran (DCNA); Amendments To Terminate Uses for Certain Pesticide Registrations
Repeal of Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units