Friday, May 17, 2024

Proposed rule published on Oct. 17 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Redesignation of the Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle-York Nonattainment Areas to Attainment for the 1997 Annual and the 2006 24-Hour Fine Particulate Matter Standard.

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 Oct. 17

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Washington: Infrastructure Requirements for the Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, California Air Resources Board-Consumer Products
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Amendments to Gasoline Vapor Recovery Requirements for Illinois
Revisions of Air Quality Implementation Plan; Nevada; Clark County; Stationary Source Permits
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, California Air Resources Board-Consumer Products
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Amendments to Gasoline Vapor Recovery Requirements for Illinois
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Washington: Infrastructure Requirements for the 2008 Ozone and 2010 Nitrogen Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Redesignation of the Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle-York Nonattainment Areas to Attainment for the 1997 Annual and the 2006 24-Hour Fine Particulate Matter Standard
Notice of Receipt of Requests for Amendments To Delete Uses in Certain Pesticide Registrations
Human Studies Review Board; Notification of a Public Meeting
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
Notification of Two Public Teleconferences of the Science Advisory Board; Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee Augmented for the Review of EPA's Draft Trimethylbenzenes Assessment
Adequacy Status of the Submitted Maintenance Plans for the Delaware Portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-New Jersey 1997 and 2006 Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standard Nonattainment Areas for Transportation Conformity Purposes
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition To Object to Title V Permits for Mettiki Coal, LLC; Maryland