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Proposed rule published by Environmental Protection Agency on July 23

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on July 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; New Hampshire; VOC RACT Order and Regulation.

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 July 23

Title
Approval of Section 112(l) Program of Delegation; Minnesota
Finding of Failure To Attain; California-San Joaquin Valley Nonattainment Area; PM-10
Notice of Halting the Sanctions Clocks for the Commonwealth of Virginia's Failure To Submit Required State Implementation Plan for the NOX
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Louisiana; Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides in the Baton Rouge Ozone Nonattainment Area
Approval of Section 112(l) Program of Delegation; Minnesota
Notice of Data Availability; National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Approval of Revisions to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Title 33 Environmental Quality Part III. Air Chapter 5. Permit Procedures, 504. Nonattainment New Source Review Procedures
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; New Hampshire; VOC RACT Order and Regulation
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Louisiana; Emission Reduction Credits Banking in Nonattainment Areas
Meeting of the Clean Diesel Independent Review Panel
Final National Action Plan for Alkyl-lead; Notice of Availability
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Standards of Performance for Petroleum Refineries
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Primary Lead Smelters
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; New Hampshire; VOC RACT Order and Regulation
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Surface Coating of Large Appliances