Monday, November 11, 2024

Proposed rule published on Aug. 9 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a six page proposed rule on Aug. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Final Extension of the Deferred Effective Date for 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Early Action Compact Areas.

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. 9

Title
Final Extension of the Deferred Effective Date for 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Early Action Compact Areas
Revisions to Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Amendments to Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Air Quality Permit Program
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Amendments to Nonattainment New Source Review (NSR) Air Quality Permit Program
Notice of Filing of Pesticide Petitions for Establishment or Amendment to Regulations for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities
Metaldehyde Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability
Notice of Draft Guidance for Implementing the January 2001 Methylmercury Water Quality Criterion
Coppers Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability
Ethylene Oxide; Tolerance Reassessment Decision for Low Risk Pesticide; Notice of Availability
Pesticide Products; Registration Applications
Propylene Oxide (PPO) Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability
Organic Arsenical Herbicides (MSMA, DSMA, CAMA, and Cacodylic Acid), Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Hypoxia Advisory Panel
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Committee on Valuing the Protection of Ecological Systems and Services (C-VPESS)
Methyl Bromide Tolerance Reassessment and Risk Management Decision (TRED) for Methyl Bromide, and Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for Methyl Bromide's Commodity Uses; Notice of Availability
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Public Meetings of the Science Advisory Board Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC)
EPA Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Candidates for the National Environmental Education Advisory Council
Lepidopteran Pheromones; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance
Isophorone; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance
Inorganic Bromide; Tolerance Actions
Pesticides; Procedural Regulations for Registration Review
Inert Ingredient; Revocation of the Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol (THFA) Tolerance Exemption
Inert Ingredient; Revocation of the Tolerance Exemption for Mono- and Bis-(1H
Inert Ingredients; Revocation of Tolerance Exemptions with Insufficient Data for Reassessment