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Proposed rule published on Aug. 8 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a six page proposed rule on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; South Dakota; Revisions to the Permitting Rules.

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. 8

Title
Flonicamid; Pesticide Tolerances
Technical Amendments to Performance Specification 18 and Procedure 6
Reconsideration on the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and the Utility New Source Performance Standards Startup and Shutdown Provisions; Final Action
Section 610 Review of the 2008 Lead; Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program (RRP); Extension of Comment Period
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; South Dakota; Revisions to the Permitting Rules