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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on March 17

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; Arizona State Implementation Plan Revision, Maricopa County Environmental Services Department.

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 March 17

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Arizona State Implementation Plan Revision, Maricopa County Environmental Services Department
Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Extension of Specified Deadlines for Atypical Additives and Biodiesel Fuels; and, Reformulated Gasoline Complex Model: Modification of Survey Precision Requirements
Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Changes in Requirements, and Applicability to Blenders of Deposit Control Gasoline Additives
Test Methods for the Polymers and Resins I Rule; Appendix A, Test Methods 310 A, B, C, 312 A, B, C, 313 A, B
Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; Arizona State Implementation Plan Revision, Maricopa County Environmental Services Department
Air Quality: Revision to Definition of Volatile Organic CompoundsExclusion of 16 Compounds
Fuels and Fuel Additives; Elimination of Oxygenated Gasoline Program Reformulated Gasoline (OPRG) Category From the Reformulated Gasoline Regulations