Environmental Protection Agency February 17, 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Air Plan Approval; Texas; Oil and Natural Gas Reasonably Available Control Technology in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Ozone Nonattainment Areas
Document Number: 2023-03128
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve the July 20, 2021 revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) requirements covered by the 2016 Oil and Natural Gas Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG or CTGs) for Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and the Houston-Galveston- Brazoria (HGB) nonattainment areas (NAAs) for the 2008 8-hour ozone National Air Quality Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The DFW area consists of Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, and Wise Counties. The HGB area consists of Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller Counties. These areas were both classified as Serious nonattainment for the 2008 ozone NAAQS on August 23, 2019. These revisions create new RACT rules for oil and gas production and natural gas processing in the DFW and HGB NAAs and make non-substantive changes to reflect the rule applicability for the types of equipment currently required to comply with existing rule requirements but that would be subject to the new requirements upon the compliance date.
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for January 2023
Document Number: 2023-03362
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
EPA is required under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, to make information publicly available and to publish information in the Federal Register pertaining to submissions under TSCA Section 5, including notice of receipt of a Premanufacture notice (PMN), Significant New Use Notice (SNUN), or Microbial Commercial Activity Notice (MCAN), including an amended notice or test information; an exemption application (Biotech exemption); an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), both pending and/or concluded; a notice of commencement (NOC) of manufacture (including import) for new chemical substances; and a periodic status report on new chemical substances that are currently under EPA review or have recently concluded review. This document covers the period from 1/1/ 2023 to 1/31/2023.
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, Delaware Division of Public Health (DE DPH)
Document Number: 2023-03361
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of the Delaware Division of Public Health (DE DPH) request to revise/modify certain of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Ambient Air Quality Surveillance 40 CFR 58 (Renewal)
Document Number: 2023-03351
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), ``Ambient Air Quality Surveillance (Renewal)'' (EPA ICR No. 0940.30, OMB Control No. 2060- 0084) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through July 31, 2023. An Agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2023-03397
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Penthiopyrad; Pesticide Tolerances
Document Number: 2023-03399
Type: Rule
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of penthiopyrad in or on banana. Interregional Research Project Number 4, IR-4, requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).
Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 6-Nominations
Document Number: 2023-03426
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting nominations of chemicals, microbes, or other substances that are not currently regulated in drinking water for possible inclusion on the Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6). EPA requests that nominations include information showing the nominated contaminant is known or anticipated to occur in public water systems and indicating the nominated contaminant may have an adverse health effect on humans.
Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit
Document Number: 2023-03425
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
In accordance with the Clean Air Act, as amended (CAA or the Act), notice is given of a proposed consent decree in Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club v. Regan, No. 1:22-cv-3063 (D.D.C.). On October 10, 2022, Plaintiffs Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs alleged that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) failed to perform certain non- discretionary duties in accordance with the Act to take final action with respect to a state implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The proposed consent decree would establish a deadline for EPA to sign a notice of final rulemaking.
Availability of the Protocol for the Ethylbenzene IRIS Assessment
Document Number: 2023-03452
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a 30- day public comment period associated with release of the document, Protocol for the Ethylbenzene IRIS Assessment. This document communicates the rationale for conducting the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment of ethylbenzene, describes screening criteria to identify relevant literature, outlines the approach for evaluating study quality, and describes the methods for dose-response analysis.
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Filter Adoption Survey Renewal
Document Number: 2023-03434
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR) ``Filter Adoption Survey'' (EPA ICR No. 2615.02, OMB Control No. 2008-0003) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension of the ICR which is currently set to expire on 9/30/23. An Agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Air Plan Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-Hour PM2.5
Document Number: 2023-03419
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a public hearing to be held for the proposed action titled, ``Air Plan Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-hour PM2.5 Serious Area and 189(d) Plan'' which was published in the Federal Register on January 10, 2023. The EPA is also announcing the extension of the comment period for the proposed rulemaking to allow for sufficient time after the public hearing for commenters to submit comments.
Air Plan Approval; ID; State Board Composition
Document Number: 2023-03415
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2023-02-17
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve a revision to the Idaho State Implementation Plan submitted on August 9, 2022. The State of Idaho made the submission to meet the state board composition requirements of the Clean Air Act.
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