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Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on Aug. 30

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page rule on Aug. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Minnesota; Revised Format of 40 CFR Part 52 for Materials Being Incorporated by Reference; Correction.

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. 30

Title
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing
Standards of Performance for New and Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Steam Generating Units
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Minnesota; Revised Format of 40 CFR Part 52 for Materials Being Incorporated by Reference; Correction
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Process for Exempting Critical Uses of Methyl Bromide for the 2005 Supplemental Request
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Process for Exempting Critical Uses of Methyl Bromide for the 2005 Supplemental Request
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Integrated Iron and Steel Manufacturing
Science Advisory Board Staff Office Notification of Advisory Meeting of the SAB Aquatic Life Criteria Guidelines Consultative Panel
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC); Notification of Advisory Meeting of the CASAC Ambient Air Monitoring and Methods (AAMM) Subcommittee
Adequacy Status of Submitted State Implementation Plans (SIP) for Transportation Conformity Purposes: 5 Percent Increment of Progress Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for the Portland Maine 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area