Friday, May 17, 2024

Proposed rule published on May 30 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on May 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Lead; Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Lead-Based Paint Hazards From Renovation, Repair, and Painting Activities in Public and Commercial Buildings.

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 May 30

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan, Conformity Budgets, Emissions Inventories; State of New York
Adequacy Determination for the Kent, Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington PM10
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Revisions for Permitting of Particulate Matter With Diameters Less Than or Equal to 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5
Review of New Sources and Modifications in Indian Country-Amendments to the Federal Indian Country Minor New Source Review Rule
Lead; Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Lead-Based Paint Hazards From Renovation, Repair, and Painting Activities in Public and Commercial Buildings
Notification of a Public Meeting of the Great Lakes Advisory Board
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Notice of Public Meeting