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What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on Dec. 14?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The notice is focused on Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Oral and Written Purchase Orders.

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 Dec. 14

Title
Title V Operating Permit Deferrals for Area Sources: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Chromium Emissions from Hard and Decorative Chromium Electroplating and Chromium Anodizing Tanks; Ethylene Oxide Commercial Sterilization and Fumigation Operations; Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaning Facilities; Halogenated Solvent Cleaning Machines; and Secondary Lead Smelting
OMB Approvals Under the Paperwork Reduction Act; Technical Amendment
Lead-Based Paint Activities in Target Housing and Child-Occupied Facilities; Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Authorization Application
Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects
Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meeting; Open Meeting
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Steam Generating Units
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, National Emission Standard for Mercury
Agency Information Collection Activities Associated With ``Standards for the Use or Disposal of Sewage Sludge'; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Oral and Written Purchase Orders