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What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on Feb. 13?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Feb. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Water Quality Standards; Establishment of Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollutants for the State of California; Correction.

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 Feb. 13

Title
Water Quality Standards; Establishment of Numeric Criteria for Priority Toxic Pollutants for the State of California; Correction
Project XL Site-Specific Rulemaking for the Autoliv ASP Inc. Facility in Promontory, Utah
Agency Information Collection Activities
Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Paint Production Wastes; Land Disposal Restrictions for Newly Identified Wastes; CERCLA Hazardous Substance Designation and Reportable Quantities; Designation of n-Butyl Alcohol, Ethyl Benzene, Methyl Isobutyl Ketone, Styrene, and Xylenes as Appendix VIII Constituents; Addition of Acrylamide and Styrene to the Treatment Standards of F039; and Designation of Styrene as an Underlying Hazardous Constituent