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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Jan. 15

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a six page proposed rule on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Reasonable Further Progress Plan, 2002 Base Year Inventory, Reasonably Available Control Measures, Contingency Measures, and Transportation Conformity Budgets for the Delaware Portion of the Philadelphia 1997 8-Hour Ozone Moderate Nonattainment Area.

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. 15

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Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Reasonable Further Progress Plan, 2002 Base Year Inventory, Reasonably Available Control Measures, Contingency Measures, and Transportation Conformity Budgets for the Delaware Portion of the Philadelphia 1997 8-Hour Ozone Moderate Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Kentucky: Approval of Revisions to the State Implementation Plan
Science Advisory Board Staff Office Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Committee on Science Integration for Decisionmaking
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments
Proposed Settlement Agreement for Recovery of Past Response Costs and Certain Other Costs Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as Amended; In Re: Commerce Street Plume Superfund Site, Located in Williston, VT
Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability
Agency Information Collection Activities OMB Responses
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; EPA's WaterSense Program (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2233.04, OMB Control No. 2040-0272
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Approval of State Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs (Renewal)
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Distribution of Offsite Consequence Analysis Information Under Section 112(r)(7)(H) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 1981.04; OMB Control No. 2050-0172
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Area Sources: Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymer Production, Primary Copper Smelting, Secondary Copper Smelting, and Primary Nonferrous Metals-Zinc, Cadmium, and Beryllium (Renewal); EPA ICR Number 2240.03, OMB Control Number 2060-0596