Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on March 24

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page rule on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Pesticides; Tolerance Exemptions for Active and Inert Ingredients for Use in Antimicrobial Formulations (Food-Contact Surface Sanitizing Solutions); Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule.

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 March 24

Title
Pesticides; Tolerance Exemptions for Active and Inert Ingredients for Use in Antimicrobial Formulations (Food-Contact Surface Sanitizing Solutions); Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule
Interim Final Determination To Stay and/or Defer Sanctions, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, and San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule; National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System-Amendment of Final Regulations Addressing Cooling Water Intake Structures for New Facilities
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petitions for Objection to State Operating Permits for Consolidated Edison Company's 74th Street Station; the Danskammer Generating Station; and the Lovett Generating Station
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Imperial County Air Pollution Control District
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; NOX
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, and San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Revision to the Arizona State Implementation Plan, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Imperial County Air Pollution Control District and Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; NOX