Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Proposed rule published by Environmental Protection Agency on Oct. 27

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Proposed Revisions to the Water Quality Planning and Management Regulation, and Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program and Federal Antidegradation Policy in Support of Proposed Revisions to the Water Quality Planning and Management Regulation.

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 Oct. 27

Title
Approval and Promulgation of State Air Quality Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; Pennsylvania; Control of Total Reduced Sulfur Emissions From Existing Kraft Pulp Mills
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia; Stage II Gasoline Vapor Recovery and RACT Requirements for Major Sources of VOC
Proposed Revisions to the Water Quality Planning and Management Regulation, and Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program and Federal Antidegradation Policy in Support of Proposed Revisions to the Water Quality Planning and Management Regulation
Control of Air Pollution from New Motor Vehicles: Proposed Tier 2 Motor Vehicle Emissions Standards and Gasoline Sulfur Control Requirements
Approval and Promulgation of State Air Quality Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; Pennsylvania; Control of Total Reduced Sulfur Emissions from Existing Kraft Pulp Mills
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia; Stage II Gasoline Vapor Recovery RACT Requirements for Major Sources of VOC
Organophosphate Pesticide; Availability of Preliminary Risk Assessments
Good Neighbor Environmental Board; Change of Agenda
Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter (External Review Draft)
Pesticides; Policy Issues Related to the Food Quality Protection Act
Methyl Parathion, Receipt of Requests for Cancellation; Cancellation Order
NOTICE OF PROPOSED ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT FOR REMOVAL UNDER SECTIONS 104, 106(a), 107, AND 122 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT PULVERIZING SERVICES SUPERFUND SITE, TOWNSHIP OF MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY