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Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on Aug. 18

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

The rule is focused on Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants.

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 Aug. 18

Title
Delaware: Final Authorization of State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revisions
Triasulfuron; Pesticide Tolerance
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning PurposesKentucky: Redesignation of the Muhlenberg County Sulfur Dioxide Secondary Nonattainment Area to Attainment
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Petroleum Refineries
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision, Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District and South Coast Air Quality Management District
OMB Approval Numbers Under the Paperwork Reduction Act; Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Guidelines for Control of Existing Sources: Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List
Delaware: Final Authorization of State Hazardous Waste Management Program Revisions
Maximum Contaminant Level Goals and National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision; El Dorado County Air Pollution Control District and Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes Kentucky: Redesignation of the Muhlenberg County Sulfur Dioxide Secondary Nonattainment Area to Attainment
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision, Mohave Desert Air Quality Management District & South Coast Air Quality Management District
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Louisiana: Reasonable-Further-Progress Plan for the 1996-1999 Period, Attainment Demonstration, Contingency Plan, Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets, and 1990 Emission Inventory for the Baton Rouge Ozone Nonattainment Area; Louisiana Point Source Banking Regulations
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Alaska
Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking Federal Advisory Committee Notice of Upcoming Meeting
Request for Nominations of Candidates for the National Environmental Education Advisory Council
Clean Air Act Advisory Committee: Accident Prevention Subcommittee Meeting
Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard; Notice of Determination
Notice of Ambient Water Quality Criteria
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; 1999 Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey