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Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on Dec. 9

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page rule on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Removal of Stage II Gasoline Vapor Recovery Requirements for Gasoline Dispensing Facilities; Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule.

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. 9

Title
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System General Permit Remand Rule
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Oklahoma; Infrastructure for the Lead, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Removal of Stage II Gasoline Vapor Recovery Requirements for Gasoline Dispensing Facilities; Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule
2015 Revisions and Confidentiality Determinations for Data Elements Under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule
Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities
Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Allowances From New Unit Set-Asides for 2016 Control Periods
Approval of California Air Plan Revisions, Imperial County Air Pollution Control District
Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing and Phosphate Fertilizer Production Risk and Technology Review
Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit
Nominations to the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals; Request for Comments
Announcement of the Board of Directors for the National Environmental Education Foundation
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
Second External Review Draft Integrated Science Assessment for Sulfur Oxides-Health Criteria