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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Feb. 18

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Massachusetts; Reasonably Available Control Technology for Major Stationary Sources of Nitrogen Oxides.

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. 18

Title
Dimethomorph; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Clean Air Act Reclassification; Texas-Dallas/Fort Worth Nonattainment Area; Ozone
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Massachusetts; Reasonably Available Control Technology for Major Stationary Sources of Nitrogen Oxides
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; General Conformity of Federal Actions to State Implementation Plans
Open Meeting of the Industrial Non-Hazardous Waste Stakeholders Focus Group
Announcement and Publication of the Policy for Municipality and Municipal Solid Waste; CERCLA Settlements at NPL Co-Disposal Sites
Notice of Proposed Administrative De Micromis Settlement Pursuant to Section 122(g)(4) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,Compensation, and Liability Act, Regarding the Pollution Abatement Services Superfund Site, Oswego, NY
Guidance for Implementing the 1-Hour Ozone and Pre-Existing PMINF10/INF National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)