Thursday, November 21, 2024

Proposed rule published on March 20 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a nine page proposed rule on March 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Air Plan Approval; West Virginia; Redesignation and Maintenance Plan for the West Virginia Portion of the Steubenville Sulfur Dioxide Nonattainment Area.

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 March 20

Title
Air Plan Approval; Iowa; State Implementation Plan and Operating Permits Program
Air Plan Approval; West Virginia; Redesignation and Maintenance Plan for the West Virginia Portion of the Steubenville Sulfur Dioxide Nonattainment Area
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; North Dakota; Revisions to Permitting Rules
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) Determinations for Case-By-Case Sources Under the 1997 and 2008 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Montana; Columbia Falls, Kalispell and Libby PM10
Trichloroethylene; TSCA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) Meeting; Amended Notice of Public Meeting
Notification of a Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Secondary NAAQS Review Panel for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur
TSCA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals; Request for Nominations
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Boat Manufacturing and Reinforced Plastic Composites Production Risk and Technology Review
Significant New Use Rules on Certain Chemical Substances (19-1.B)
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petitions for Objection to State Operating Permit for Dow Chemical Company, Dow Salt Dome Operations, Brazoria County, Texas