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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Jan. 8

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on Jan. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Proposed Significant New Use Rules on Certain Chemical Substances; Reopening of Comment Period.

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 Jan. 8

Title
Proposed Significant New Use Rules on Certain Chemical Substances; Reopening of Comment Period
Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability
Access to Confidential Business Information by Industrial Economics, Incorporated
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Fuels and Fuel Additives: Health-Effects Research Requirements for Manufacturers (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1696.06, OMB Control No. 2060-0297
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Surface Coating of Plastic Parts for Business Machines, EPA ICR Number 1093.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0162
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Secondary Lead Smelters (Renewal); EPA ICR Number 1128.09, OMB Control Number 2060-0080
Revisions to the Requirements for: Transboundary Shipments of Hazardous Wastes Between OECD Member Countries, Export Shipments of Spent Lead-Acid Batteries, Submitting Exception Reports for Export Shipments of Hazardous Wastes, and Imports of Hazardous Wastes