Environmental Protection Agency June 30, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Temporary Suspension of Certain Oil Spill Response Time Requirements To Support Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of National Significance (SONS) Response
This joint Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) temporary interim rule will suspend oil spill response time requirements, and certain identification and location requirements, for facilities and vessels whose response resources are relocated in support of the Deepwater Horizon SONS response. By providing oil spill removal organizations (OSROs), and facilities and vessels with their own response resources, with the temporary opportunity to relocate response resources from current locations to the Gulf of Mexico, this rule directly assists in the urgently needed immediate relocation of nationwide oil spill response resources to the Gulf of Mexico to aid in the response to the Deepwater Horizon SONS. The rule also provides notice that the Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon SONS has requested the Armed Forces to relocate Armed Forces oil spill response resources, in particular those of the Navy, from their current locations to the Gulf of Mexico to aid in the response to the Deepwater Horizon SONS.
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public meeting of the SAB Ecological Processes and Effects Committee (EPEC). The SAB EPEC, augmented with other experts, will provide advice on technologies and systems to minimize the impacts of invasive species in vessel ballast water discharge.
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Air Quality Modeling Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council)
The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Air Quality Modeling Subcommittee (AQMS) of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council) to review additional information on particulate matter inventories for EPA's air quality modeling work for the Second Section 812 Prospective Benefit-Cost Study of the Clean Air Act.
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Petroleum Refineries
On October 28, 2009, we promulgated general control requirements to control emissions of hazardous air pollutants from heat exchange systems at petroleum refineries. These requirements were published as amendments to the national emission standards for petroleum refineries. In this notice, we are correcting typographical errors and inadvertent errors in section references.
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines
EPA published in the Federal Register on March 3, 2010, a document amending the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for existing stationary compression ignition reciprocating internal combustion engines. The amendments inadvertently removed paragraphs from the regulation. EPA is correcting this error.
1-Naphthaleneacetic Acid; Time-Limited Tolerance, Technical Correction
EPA issued a final rule in the Federal Register of September 11, 2009, (74 FR 46689) (FRL-8426-2) concerning azinphos-methyl, disulfoton, esfenvalerate, ethylene oxide, fenvalerate, et al.; tolerance actions. Today's rule restores the time-limited tolerance for 1-naphthaleneacetic acid in or on avocados which was inadvertently deleted by the September 11, 2009 final rule.
Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Modifications to Renewable Fuel Standard Program
EPA published a direct final rule to amend the Renewable Fuel Standard program requirements on May 10, 2010. Because EPA received adverse comment, we are withdrawing several provisions of the direct final rule.
OMB Approvals Under the Paperwork Reduction Act; Technical Amendment
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this technical amendment updates the table that lists the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control numbers issued under PRA for information collection requirements contained in EPA's regulations that are promulgated in title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This technical amendment adds new approvals published in the Federal Register and removes expired and terminated approvals.
Disapproval of California State Implementation Plan Revisions, Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District
EPA is finalizing disapproval of a revision to the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District (MBUAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). This action was proposed in the Federal Register on March 22, 2010. This revision concerns opacity standards related to multiple pollutants, including particulate matter (PM) emissions, from a wide variety of sources. Under authority of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act), this action identifies a deficiency that precludes approval of this SIP revision.
Formaldehyde Gas; Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption, Solicitation of Public Comment
EPA has received a quarantine exemption request from EPA's, Office of Emergency Management, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) to use formaldehyde gas (CAS No. 82115-62-6) to decontaminate non-food contact surfaces to control Bacillus anthracis. The applicant proposes the use of a new chemical which has not been registered by the EPA.
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information
Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisions pertaining to the manufacture of new chemicals. Under sections 5(d)(2) and 5(d)(3) of TSCA, EPA is required to publish a notice of receipt of a premanufacture notice (PMN) or an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), and to publish periodic status reports on the chemicals under review and the receipt of notices of commencement to manufacture those chemicals. This status report, which covers the period from May 10, 2010 to May 28, 2010, consists of the PMNs pending or expired, and the notices of commencement to manufacture a new chemical that the Agency has received under TSCA section 5 during this time period.
Pasteuria usgae; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of the microbial pesticide, Pasteuria usgae, in or on all food commodities when applied preharvest and used as a nematicide in accordance with good agricultural practices. MacIntosh and Associates Incorporated (on behalf of Pasteuria Bioscience Incorporated) submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of Pasteuria usgae.
Dynamac Corporation; Transfer of Data
This notice announces that pesticide related information submitted to EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including information that may have been claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI) by the submitter, will be transferred to Dynamac Corporation in accordance with 40 CFR 2.307(h)(3) and 2.308(i)(2). Dynamac Corporation has been awarded a contract to perform work for OPP, and access to this information will enable Dynamac Corporation to fulfill the obligations of the contract.
Lauryl Sulfate Salts; Antimicrobial Registration Review Final Work Plan and Proposed Registration Review Decision; Notice of Availability
This notice announces the availability of EPA's final work plan and proposed registration review decision for the pesticide lauryl sulfate salts, case number 4061 and opens a public comment period on the proposed decision. Registration review is EPA's periodic review of pesticide registrations to ensure that each pesticide continues to satisfy the statutory standard for registration, that is, that the pesticide can perform its intended function without unreasonable adverse effects on human health or the environment. Through this program, EPA is ensuring that each pesticide's registration is based on current scientific and other knowledge, including its effects on human health and the environment.
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