Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Rule published on Jan. 26 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page rule on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Final Exclusion.

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 Jan. 26

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Control of VOCs From the Manufacture of Explosives and Propellant
Final Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Texas; Reasonably Available Control Technology for Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing Hexafluoropropylene (HFP) and HFP-Containing Blends as Unacceptable Refrigerants Under EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; State of Missouri
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing MT-31 as an Unacceptable Refrigerant Under EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Nitrogen Oxides Budget Program
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; State of Missouri
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Reasonably Available Control Technology for Major Sources of Nitrogen Oxides
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans, Texas; Reasonably Available Control Technology for Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
New Source Review (NSR)
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Control of VOCs From the Manufacture of Explosives and Propellant
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Kansas
Acquisition Regulation: Administrative Amendments
Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Final Exclusion
Notice of Environmental Assessment on the Proposed Reissuance of General Permits for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemicals; Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know; Multimedia Strategy for Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Pollutants; Notice of Public Meetings
Science Advisory Board; Emergency Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meeting
Notice of Proposed Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
Delegation of Authority of National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS) for Source Categories; Virginia
EPA Identification of Additional Waters To Be Added to Virginia's 1998 Clean Water Act Section 303(d) List of Impaired Waters, Correction