Environmental Protection Agency October 18, 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Pesticide Registration Review; Decisions and Case Closures for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2023-22994
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-10-18
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the availability of EPA's final registration review decisions for the following chemicals: Citric acid and salts, and linalool. In addition, this notice announces the closure of the registration review case for triadimenol because the last U.S. registrations for this pesticide has been canceled.
Findings of Failure To Submit State Implementation Plan Revisions for Reclassified Moderate Nonattainment Areas for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
Document Number: 2023-22987
Type: Rule
Date: 2023-10-18
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to find that 11 States failed to submit State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions required by the Clean Air Act (CAA) in a timely manner for certain nonattainment areas classified as Moderate for the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The States that failed to submit the required SIP revisions for reclassified Moderate areas are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Nevada, Texas, and Wisconsin. This action triggers certain CAA deadlines for the imposition of sanctions if a State does not submit a complete SIP addressing the outstanding requirements and for the EPA to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) if the EPA does not approve the State's SIP revision addressing the outstanding requirements.
Pesticide Registration Review; Pesticide Dockets Opened for Review and Comment; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2023-22996
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-10-18
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the availability of the EPA's preliminary work plans for the following chemicals: Aureobasidium pullulans and cyflumetofen. With this document, the EPA is opening the public comment period for registration review for these chemicals.
Pesticide Registration Review; Proposed Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2023-22995
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-10-18
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the availability of EPA's proposed interim registration review decisions for bromine, chlorothalonil and triadimefon, and the proposed final registration review decisions for Agrobacterium rodiobacter, and porcine zona pellucida (PZP). This notice also opens a 60-day public comment period on the proposed decisions.
Vessel Incidental Discharge National Standards of Performance
Document Number: 2023-22879
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2023-10-18
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
On October 26, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed under the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) national standards of performance for marine pollution control devices for discharges incidental to the normal operation of primarily non- military and non-recreational vessels 79 feet in length and above into the waters of the United States or the waters of the contiguous zone (hereafter, ``the proposed rule''). This supplemental notice presents ballast water management system type-approval data EPA received from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) since the proposed rule and supplements the proposed rule with supplemental regulatory options that EPA is considering for discharges from ballast tanks, hulls and niche areas, and graywater systems. These supplemental options are informed by comments received during the first public comment period and subsequent meetings with interested states, tribes, and other stakeholders held between August and November 2021. EPA solicits public comment solely about the information presented in this document; the Agency is not soliciting public comment on any other aspects of the proposed rule that are not addressed in this document. All comments on this document and the comments on the proposed rule will be considered during the development of the final rule.
Non-Hazardous Secondary Material Standards; Response to Petition
Document Number: 2023-22878
Type: Rule
Date: 2023-10-18
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing its denial of a rulemaking petition from American Forest and Paper Association et al. requesting amendments to the Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials regulations, initially promulgated on March 21, 2011, and amended on February 7, 2013, February 8, 2016, and February 7, 2018, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. These regulations establish standards and procedures for identifying whether non-hazardous secondary materials are solid wastes when legitimately used as fuels or ingredients in combustion units. The petition requested the following amendments: Change the legitimacy criterion for comparison of contaminants in the non-hazardous secondary material against those in the traditional fuel the unit is designed to burn from mandatory to ``should consider''; remove associated designed to burn and other limitations for creosote-treated railroad ties; and revise the definition of ``paper recycling residuals'' to remove the limit on non- fiber materials in paper recycling residuals that can be burned as a non-waste fuel. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed to deny the petition on January 28, 2022. After review of the public comments, the Agency is finalizing its denial of the requested amendments. In addition to denying this rulemaking petition, the Agency is revising the definition of paper recycling residuals to limit the impact non- fiber materials may have on the heat value of paper recycling residuals in order for them to be considered a non-waste fuel.
Executive Committee under the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC)-October 2023
Document Number: 2023-22917
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-10-18
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of a virtual meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee (EC) to review and finalize the reports of the following panels: EPA Transcriptomic Assessment Product (ETAP) Panel and Value of Information (VOI) Panel.
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