Monday, June 17, 2024

Rule published on March 17 by Environmental Protection Agency

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

The rule is focused on Potato Leaf Roll Virus Resistance Gene (also known as orf1/orf2 gene); Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance.

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
Azoxystrobin; Pesticide Tolerance
Maneb (manganous ethylenebisdithiocarbamate); Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Propiconazole; Extension of Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Dicloran; Extension of Tolerance for Emergency Exemptions
Tebufenozide; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Potato Leaf Roll Virus Resistance Gene (also known as orf1/orf2 gene); Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance
Pendimethalin; Extension of Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Propiconazole; Establishment of Time-Limited Pesticide Tolerances
Approval and Promulgation of State Air Quality Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Control of Landfill Gas Emissions from Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Approval and Promulgation of Implementations; Ohio; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Ohio
Administrative Reporting Exemptions for Certain Radionuclide Releases
Approval and Promulgation of Implementations; Ohio Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Ohio
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
ICI Surfactants; Pesticide Tolerance Petition Filing
Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide (External Review Draft); Estimation of Carbon Monoxide Exposures and Associated Carboxyhemoglobin Levels in Denver Residents Using pNEM/CO (Version 2.0) (Draft)
Oxythioquinox; Voluntary Termination of Uses
Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meetings
Notice of Oxygenate Use in Gasoline Panel Meeting
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Pesticide Registration Application, Notification and Report for Pesticide-Producing Establishments
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comments Request: Used Oil Management Standards Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements
Notice of Filing; Pesticide Petitions
ILCO Superfund Site; Notice of Proposed Settlement
Formation of a Task Force on Innovative Approaches to Environmental Protection and a Public Meeting on draft recommendations for innovative actions by the Agency