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What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on Oct. 21?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page proposed rule on Oct. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Certain High Production Volume Chemicals; Test Rule and Significant New Use Rule; Fourth Group of Chemicals.

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. 21

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans and Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Kentucky; Redesignation of the Kentucky Portion of the Cincinnati-Hamilton 1997 Annual Fine Particulate Matter Nonattainment Area to Attainment
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) Reporting Rule
Regulation of Fuel and Fuel Additives: Alternative Test Method for Olefins in Gasoline
Testing of Certain High Production Volume Chemicals; Third Group of Chemicals
Certain High Production Volume Chemicals; Test Rule and Significant New Use Rule; Fourth Group of Chemicals
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability