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Rule published on Dec. 11 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Revisions to the Nevada State Implementation Plan; Monitoring and Volatile Organic Compound Rules.

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. 11

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maine; Redesignation of the Portland, Maine and the Hancock, Knox, Lincoln and Waldo Counties, Maine Ozone Nonattainment Areas to Attainment and Approval of These Areas' Maintenance Plans
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Revisions to the Nevada State Implementation Plan; Monitoring and Volatile Organic Compound Rules
Public Notice of Seven (7) Draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permits for Storm Water Discharges From Industrial Activities
Notice of Approval of the Primacy Application for National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for the State of Nebraska
Notice of Approval of the Primacy Application for National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for the State of Kansas