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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Aug. 22

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Mercury Emissions From Mercury Cell Chlor-Alkali Plants.

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. 22

Title
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District
Iprovalicarb; Pesticide Tolerance
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Mercury Emissions From Mercury Cell Chlor-Alkali Plants
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Chlorine and Hydrochloric Acid Emissions From Chlorine Production
Office of Research and Development; Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting
Contractor and Subcontractor Access to Confidential Business Information Under the Clean Air Act
Emission Guidelines for Existing Small Municipal Waste Combustion Units
Organophosphate Pesticides, Availability of the Revised Organophosphate Cumulative Risk Assessment; Additional Extension of Comment Period
Agency Information Collection Activities; OMB Responses
Substantial Risk Information Reporting under Section 8(e) of the Toxic Substances Control Act; Request for Comment on Renewal of Information Collection Activities