The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Feb. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
The notice is focused on Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement To Consider Policies, Guidance, and Processes to Minimize the Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Mining and Valley Fills in the Appalachian Coalfields.
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. 5
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| Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources: Volatile Organic Compound Emissions From the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry Wastewater; Extension of Public Comment Period |
| Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement To Consider Policies, Guidance, and Processes to Minimize the Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Mining and Valley Fills in the Appalachian Coalfields |
| Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment and Opportunity To Comment Regarding Northeast Public Sewer District, Fenton, Missouri |
| Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment and Opportunity To Comment Regarding Klein Products of Kansas, Inc., Fort Scott, KS |
| Science Advisory Board; Notification of Three Public Meetings; February 24, February 25-26, and March 16, 1999 |
| Science Advisory Board; Emergency Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meetings |
| Proposed Agreement Pursuant to 122(g)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for the MacGillis & Gibbs / Bell Lumber & Pole Site |
| Pesticides; Science Policy Issues Related to the Food Quality Protection Act |
| Issuance of an Emergency Ocean Dumping Permit to the National Science Foundation for Disposal of an Ice Pier From Its Base at McMurdo Station, Antarctica |
| Request for Nominations to the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, New Standing Committee on Sectors |
| Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability |
| Pesticides: Science Policy Issues Related to the Food Quality Protection Act; Extension of Comment Period |
| Final guidelines for the Certification and Recertification of the Operators of Community and Nontransient Noncommunity Public Water Systems |
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