Wednesday, November 13, 2024

What did Environmental Protection Agency publish on April 26?

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a nine page proposed rule on April 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Air Plan Approval and Air Quality Designation; TN; Redesignation of the Sullivan County Lead Nonattainment Area to Attainment.

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 April 26

Title
Air Quality Plans; North Carolina; Infrastructure Requirements for the 2010 Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standard
Environmental Protection Agency Acquisition Regulation; Institutional Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; 2011 Base Year Inventories for the 2008 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Lancaster, Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, and Reading Areas, and the Pennsylvania Portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City Area
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; 2011 Base Year Inventories for the 2008 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Lancaster, Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, and Reading Areas, and the Pennsylvania Portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City Area
Air Plan Approval and Air Quality Designation; TN; Redesignation of the Sullivan County Lead Nonattainment Area to Attainment
Promulgation of State Implementation Plan Revisions; Infrastructure Requirements for the 2008 Lead, 2008 Ozone, 2010 NO2,
Aldicarb, Bensulide, Coumaphos, Ethalfluralin, and Pirimiphos-methyl Registration Review; Draft Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments; Notice of Availability
Amendments, Extensions, and/or Issuances of Experimental Use Permits
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Consolidated Superfund Information Collection Request (Renewal)
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Hazardous Waste Specific Unit Requirements, and Special Waste Processes and Types (Renewal)
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaning Facilities (Renewal)
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces and Argon Oxygen Decarburization Vessels (Renewal)
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits (Renewal)
Pesticide Experimental Use Permit; Receipt of Application; Comment Request
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Alabama
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Rhode Island
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Kansas
General Permit for Ocean Disposal of Marine Mammal Carcasses
Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Oregon
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Louisiana
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, State of Utah