Environmental Protection Agency June 10, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Pursuant to section 304(a) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of updated national recommended water quality criteria for the protection of human health for acrolein and phenol. These criteria are based on EPA's Methodology for Deriving Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health (2000), EPA-822-B-00-004 (2000 Human Health Methodology) and supercede criteria for these chemicals previously published by EPA. EPA's recommended section 304(a) water quality criteria are guidance to States and authorized Tribes in adopting water quality standards for protecting human health and provide guidance to EPA for promulgating Federal regulations under CWA section 303(c), when such action is necessary.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference and a face- to-face meeting of the SAB Risk and Technology Review Assessment Methodologies Panel to review the Agency's draft methodologies for performing assessments of residual risk featuring case studies from the Petroleum Refineries and Portland Cement Manufacturing source categories.

EPA is approving the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111(d)/129 State Plan submitted by the Memphis-Shelby County Health Department (MSCHD) for the City of Memphis, Tennessee on February 16, 2006 (State Plan). The State Plan is for implementing and enforcing the Emissions Guidelines (EG) applicable to existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerator (HMIWI) units that commenced construction on or before June 20, 1996.

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection Supporting Statement, Health and Safety Data Reporting, Submission of Lists and Copies of Health and Safety Studies. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the information collection activity and its expected burden and costs.

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.

Pursuant to provisions in the Clean Air Act (Act) which allow EPA to correct State Implementation Plan (SIP) actions made in error, EPA is taking final action to correct an error in part of its June 12, 2006 approval of an amendment to Indiana's ozone SIP. In today's action, EPA is rescinding its approval of the inclusion of the state's codified definition of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) in Indiana's ozone SIP.

This notice announces EPA's receipt of an application 62719- EUP-AE from Dow AgroSciences requesting an experimental use permit (EUP) for sulfuryl fluoride. The Agency has determined that the permit may be of regional and national significance. Therefore, in accordance with 40 CFR 172.11(a), the Agency is soliciting comments on this application.

This notice announces the availability of EPA's Revised Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the allethrins series of pesticides. EPA amended the allethrins RED to include an assessment of a registered use for the allethrins (use in commercial animal housing automatic misting systems), which was not considered in the original RED.