Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on Aug. 31

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page rule on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List.

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 Aug. 31

Title
Buprofezin (2-Tert-butylimino-3-isopropyl-5-phenyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinan-4-one); Time-Limited Pesticide Tolerances
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List
Notice of Availability of Responses to Comments on Proposed Rulemaking for Section 126 Petitions for Purposes of Reducing Interstate Ozone Transport
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Oregon
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List
Pesticide Tolerance Processing Fees; Reopening of Comment Period
Extension of Comment Period for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System; Regulations Addressing Cooling Water Intake Structures for New Facilities; Proposed Rule
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan; National Priorities List
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Oxides of Nitrogen Regulations
Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; Oregon
Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects
Good Neighbor Environmental Board Meeting
Effluent Guidelines Plan
Final Reissuance of General NPDES Permits (GP) for Alaskan Mechanical Placer Mining (Permit Number AKG-37-0000) and Alaskan Medium-Size Suction Dredging (Permit Number AKG-37-1000)
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; SEA and Recordkeeping Requirements for On-Highway HD Engines, Nonroad Large CI Engines, On-Highway LD Vehicles and LD Trucks; Exemptions; Emission Defect Information and Voluntary Emission Recall Reports; Marine Certification and AB&T; Marine Production Line Testing; Marine In-Use Testing Program
Solicitation Notice: Environmental Education Grants Program; Fiscal Year 2001