Environmental Protection Agency September 4, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This action approves Kansas' Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) permit program and updates to the approved Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Permit (MSWLP) program. On March 22, 2004, the EPA issued final regulations allowing RD&D permits to be issued to certain municipal solid waste landfills by approved States. On December 11, 2008, Kansas submitted an application to the EPA seeking Federal approval of its RD&D requirements and to update Federal approval of its MSWLP program.

In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (``Act''), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a

EPA proposes to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Virginia for the purpose of adding 9 VAC 5 Chapter 220, ``Variance for Rocket Motor Test Operations at Atlantic Research Corporation Orange County Facility'' which includes an opacity variance for the rocket motor test operations at Aerojet Corporation's Orange County Facility, in lieu of opacity limits established in the Virginia SIP. In the Final Rules section of this Federal Register, EPA is approving the State's SIP submittal as a direct final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. A more detailed description of the Commonwealth's submittal and EPA's evaluation are included in a Technical Support Document (TSD) prepared in support of this rulemaking action. A copy of the TSD is available,

In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have found the Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets (MVEBs) in the 2008 Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) Plan, submitted on June 4, 2007, by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) and on June 12, 2007 by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ) and the District of Columbia Department of the Environment (DCDOE) are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. As a result of EPA's finding, the Metropolitan Washington, DC area must use the MVEBs from the 2008 RFP Plan for future conformity determinations for the 8-hour ozone standard.

EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of June 24, 2009, concerning the availability of multiple registration review dockets for public comment, including malathion. This document reopens the comment period for the malathion registration review docket, which closed on August 24, 2009, until October 5, 2009.

EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.