Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Dec. 7

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a seven page proposed rule on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Pesticides; Revisions to Tolerance Exemptions for Polymers.

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 Dec. 7

Title
Approval and Disapproval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Colorado; Affirmative Defense Provisions for Startup and Shutdown; Common Provisions Regulation and Regulation No. 1
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Revisions to Regulations for Control of Air Pollution by Permits for New Sources and Modifications
Pesticides; Revisions to Tolerance Exemptions for Polymers
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Colorado; Revisions to New Source Review Rules
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Revisions to Regulations for Control of Air Pollution by Permits for New Construction or Modification
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for Oglethorpe Power Company-Wansley Combined Cycle Energy Facility; Roopville (Heard County), GA
Notice of Filing of a Pesticide Petition for Establishment of an Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance for the Residues of the Biochemical Pesticide (Z)-7,8-epoxy-2-methyloctadecane in or on All Food and Feed Commodities
Azinphos-methyl Ecological Risk Assessment, Grower Impact Assessments; Notice of Availability
Notice of Filing of a Pesticide Petition for the Establishment of Regulations for Residues of the Herbicide Diquat Dibromide in or on Food Commodities
Notice of Filing of a Pesticide Petition for Establishment of an Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance for the Residues of the Microbial Pesticide Beauveria bassiana