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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Sept. 19

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page proposed rule on Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Finding of Substantial Inadequacy of Implementation Plan; Call for California State Implementation Plan Revision; South Coast.

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 Sept. 19

Title
Disapproval of Implementation Plan Revisions; State of California; South Coast VMT Emissions Offset Demonstrations
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Reasonably Available Control Technology for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard
Finding of Substantial Inadequacy of Implementation Plan; Call for California State Implementation Plan Revision; South Coast
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Beaumont/Port Arthur Ozone Maintenance Plan Revision to Approved Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions: Hard and Decorative Chromium Electroplating and Chromium Anodizing Tanks; and Steel Pickling-HCl Process Facilities and Hydrochloric Acid Regeneration Plants
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Albuquerque/Bernalillo County: Infrastructure and Interstate Transport Requirements for the 1997 and 2008 Ozone and the 1997 and 2006 PM2.5
Clopyralid; Pesticide Tolerances
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing of Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Substances-Fire Suppression and Explosion Protection
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Florida: New Source Review-Prevention of Significant Deterioration; Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Listing of Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Substances-Fire Suppression and Explosion Protection
Withdrawal of Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; California; San Joaquin Valley; 1-Hour and 8-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan Elements
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, South Coast Air Quality Management District
Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the State of Utah
Environmental Financial Advisory Committee; Request for Nominations of Candidates to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board
Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations
Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Settlement, Penalty Assessment and Opportunity To Comment Regarding New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Mississippi
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; EPA ICR No. 2104.04 OMB Control No. 2050-0192
Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the State of Colorado
Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations