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Proposed rule published by Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 7

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Redesignation Request and Maintenance Plan for the Pittsburgh Ozone Nonattainment Area.

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. 7

Title
Pesticide Tolerance for 2,4-D
Control of Air Pollution; Emission Standards for New Gasoline Spark-Ignition and Diesel Compression-Ignition Marine Engines; Exemptions for New Nonroad Compression-Ignition Engines at or Above 37 Kilowatts and New Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines at or Below 19 Kilowatts
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Redesignation Request and Maintenance Plan for the Pittsburgh Ozone Nonattainment Area
Xanthan Gum-Modified, Produced by the Reaction of Xanthan Gum and Glyoxal; Tolerance Exemption
Avermectin BINF1 and its Delta-8,9-Isomer; Pesticide Tolerances
Metalaxyl; Pesticide Tolerances; Correction
Styrene-2-Ethylhexyl Acrylate-Glycidyl Methacrylate-2-Acrylamido- 2-Methylpropanesulfonic Acid Graft Copolymer; Tolerance Exemption
Air Quality; Revision to Definition of Volatile Organic CompoundsExclusion of Perchloroethylene
Cymoxanil, Propamocarb Hydrochloride and Dimethomorph; Receipt of Applications for Emergency Exemptions, Solicitation of Public Comment
Propazine; Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption, Solicitation of Public Comment
Lakeshore Enterprises; Amendment to Applications to Register Pesticide Products
Bifenthrin; Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption, Solicitation of Public Comment
Issuance of Experimental Use Permits
Norflurazon; Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption, Solicitation of Public Comment