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Proposed rule published on Feb. 25 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions From Open Fires, ``Once-in, Always-in,'' and Definition for the Term ``Annual''.

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. 25

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions From Open Fires, ``Once-in, Always-in,'' and Definition for the Term ``Annual''
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Ohio
Pennsylvania Attainment Date Extension for the Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley Ozone Nonattainment Area; PA and VA Determination of Valid Air Quality Data
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: Oregon
Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans: Oregon
Clean Air Act Promulgation of Extension of Attainment Date for the Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley Moderate Ozone Nonattainment Area; Pennsylvania
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Ohio
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions From Open Fires, ``Once-in, Always-in,'' and Definition for the Term ``Annual''
Agency Information Collection: Proposed and Continuing Collection; Comment Request; Combined Sewer Overflow Information Collection Activities Being Proposed and Continued (OMB Control Number 2040-0170)
Notice of Proposed Assessment of Clean Water Act Class II Administrative Penalty to Golden City Gateway and Opportunity To Comment
Thirty-Ninth Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) to the Administrator; Receipt of Report, Request for Comments