Monday, May 20, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on June 25

The US Environmental Protection Agency published an eight page rule on June 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Buprofezin; Pesticide Tolerance.

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 June 25

Title
Pesticides; Tolerance Exemptions for Active and Inert Ingredients for Use in Antimicrobial Formulations (Food-Contact Surface Sanitizing Solutions)
Flufenacet (N-(4-fluorophenyl)-N-(1-methylethyl)-2-[[5-(trifluoromethyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl]oxy]acetamide; Pesticide Tolerance
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Utah; SIP Renumbering
Buprofezin; Pesticide Tolerance
Extension of Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions (Multiple Chemicals)
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Indiana
Finding of Substantial Inadequacy of Implementation Plan; Call for California State Implementation Plan Revision
FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Notice of Cancellation of Public Meeting
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission of EPA ICR No. 1072.07 (OMB No. 2060-0081) to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information
Flufenpyr-ethyl; Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food
Notice of Receipt of Requests for Amendments to Delete Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations
Imazalil; Availability of Risk Assessment
Water Quality Standards; Withdrawal of Federal Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria for Copper and Nickel Applicable to South San Francisco Bay, California