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Environmental Protection Agency publishes proposed rule on Dec. 4

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page proposed rule on Dec. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Logan Nonattainment Area Fine Particulate Matter State Implementation Plan for Attainment of 2006 24-Hour Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

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 Dec. 4

Title
Ethofumesate; Pesticide Tolerances
Extension of Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions (Multiple Chemicals)
Quinclorac; Pesticide Tolerances
Prometryn; Pesticide Tolerances
Pseudomonas fluorescens 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD-4); Exemption From the Requirement of a Tolerance
Bacillus thuringiensis Cry14Ab-1 Protein in or on Soybean; Temporary Exemption From the Requirement of a Tolerance
Revisions to California State Implementation Plan; Bay Area Air Quality Management District; Emission Reduction Credit Banking
Air Plan Approval; ID; 2012 PM2.5
Approval of California Air Plan Revisions, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
Approval and Revision of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of New York; Regional Haze State and Federal Implementation Plans
Air Plan Approval; Minnesota and Michigan; Regional Haze SIP; FIP for Regional Haze; Final Action on Petitions for Reconsideration
Approval of California Air Plan Revisions, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Logan Nonattainment Area Fine Particulate Matter State Implementation Plan for Attainment of 2006 24-Hour Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Receipt of a Pesticide Petition Filed for α-Methyl Mannoside for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for September 2017