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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Sept. 20

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Oil Pollution Prevention and Response; Non-Transportation-Related Onshore and Offshore Facilities.

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 Sept. 20

Title
Oil Pollution Prevention and Response; Non-Transportation-Related Onshore and Offshore Facilities
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Process for Exempting Critical Uses From the Phaseout of Methyl Bromide; Extension of Deadline To Request a Hearing, New Hearing Date, and New Deadline for Submission of Comments
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; North Carolina: Raleigh/Durham Area and Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point Area Maintenance Plan Updates
Oil Pollution Prevention and Response; Non-Transportation-Related Onshore and Offshore Facilities
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Kentucky and Indiana: Approval of Revisions to 1-Hour Ozone Maintenance Plan for Louisville Area
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Revised Major Stationary Source Applicability for Reasonably Available Control Technology and Permitting and Revised Offset Ratios for the Washington Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; North Carolina: Raleigh/Durham Area and Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point Area Maintenance Plan Updates
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; CO; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes, Lamar and Steamboat Springs
Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB) Meeting Dates, and Agenda