Tuesday, November 12, 2024

What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on Dec. 16?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on Dec. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Ozone Nonattainment Area.

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. 16

Title
Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans (SIP) for the State of AlabamaCall for 1-hour Attainment Demonstration for the Birmingham, Alabama Marginal Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; Michigan; Extension of Comment Period
Metsulfuron methyl; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Agency Information Collection Activities OMB Responses
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action Information Request
Organophosphate Pesticides; Availability of Revised Risk Assessments
Pollution Prevention Grants and Announcement of Financial Assistance Programs Eligible for Review; Notice of Availability
Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for Certain Pesticide Chemicals in or on Food
Request for Applications: Hazardous Substances Research Centers
Investigator-Initiated Grants: Request for Applications
Mobile Source Outreach Assistance Competition Fiscal Year 2000: Solicitation Notice
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Massachusetts; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for the Springfield (Western Massachusetts) Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Connecticut; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration; Greater Connecticut Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Connecticut; One-Hour Attainment Demonstration; Connecticut Portion of the New York- Northern New Jersey-Long Island Severe Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New York; 1- Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration State Implementation Plan and 2007 Transportation Conformity Budgets
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New Jersey; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstrations State Implementation Plan and 2007 Transportation Conformity Budgets
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Illinois; Ozone
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Indiana; Ozone
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Proposed Conditional Approval or Proposed Disapproval of the Attainment Demonstration State Implementation Plan for the Houston/Galveston Ozone Nonattainment Area
Revisions to the Underground Injection Control Regulations for Class V Injection Wells
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Wisconsin; Ozone
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for the Philadelphia- Wilmington-Trenton Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Georgia: Approval of Revisions to the Georgia State Implementation Plan
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for the Philadelphia- Wilmington-Trenton Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; One-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for the Baltimore Ozone Nonattainment Area