Environmental Protection Agency June 5, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 is issuing a Notice of Intent to Delete the Callaway & Son Drum Services Superfund Site (Site) located in Lake Alfred, Polk County, Florida, from the National Priorities List (NPL) and requests public comments on this proposed action. The NPL, promulgated pursuant to section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, is an appendix to the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP). The EPA and the State of Florida, through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, have determined that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA, other than five-year reviews, have been completed. However, this deletion does not preclude future actions under Superfund.

EPA is reopening the comment period for the proposed rule entitled ``Methods for Measurement of Filterable PM10 and PM2.5 and Measurement of Condensable Particulate Matter Emissions From Stationary Sources'' that was proposed in the Federal Register on March 25, 2009. The 60-day comment period in the proposed rule ended on May 26, 2009. The reopened comment period will close on June 26, 2009. EPA is reopening the comment period because of a request we received in a timely manner.

On April 24, 2009, the Agency received a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to cancel all pet uses for the pesticide tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP) and a supplement to a previous NRDC petition to cancel all pet collar uses for the pesticide propoxur. NRDC requested these cancellations based on their belief that EPA failed to adequately assess residential exposures to TCVP and propoxur pet collars. NRDC believes that EPA used incorrect exposure assumptions leading to underestimation of residential risk in the TCVP Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED), Propoxur RED, and N-methyl Carbamate (NMC) Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA). On April 8, 2009, the Agency opened a 60-day public comment period for the petition to cancel propoxur pet collar uses, originally scheduled to close June 8, 2009. This notice extends the comment period on the propoxur petition to correspond with the timing of the TCVP comment period.