Environmental Protection Agency March 5, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This action clarifies regulatory text of the ``Revision of Source Category List for Standards Under Section 112(k) of the Clean Air Act; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Paints and Allied Products Manufacturing Area Source Standards'' which was issued as a final rule on December 3, 2009. These technical corrections will not change the level of health protection the final rule provides or the standards and other requirements established by the rule.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Office of the Science Advisor (OSA) is soliciting nominations of people qualified in the areas of bioethics, biostatistics, human health risk assessment and human toxicology to serve on the Human Studies Review Board (HSRB). The HSRB is a Federal advisory committee, operating in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) 5 U.S.C. App. 2 Sec. 9, providing advice and recommendations to EPA on scientific and ethical aspects of research with human subjects.

EPA expressed environmental concerns about storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous waste and radioactive wastes. EPA requested additional information about NPDES monitoring. Also, long-term onsite storage and disposition of wastes will need to be

This document announces the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) responses to Agency Clearance requests, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.). 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. The OMB control numbers for EPA regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.

EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Iowa State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State on April 28, 2009. The purpose of these revisions is to update existing air quality rules; make corrections, clarifications and improvements; and to add information with regard to the application of permit exemptions. EPA is approving the SIP revisions pursuant to section 110 of the Clean Air Act.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating a source-specific Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) to regulate emissions from the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), a coal-fired power plant located on the Navajo Indian Reservation near Page, Arizona. EPA proposed the NGS FIP on September 12, 2006, to establish federally enforceable limitations for TSP, SO2, and opacity, and control measures for dust. The limits had previously been established in the Arizona SIP. EPA promulgated the Tribal Authority Rule in 1998, clarifying that state air quality regulations generally did not apply to facilities on Indian reservations and that EPA should fill the regulatory gap as necessary or appropriate. This action fills the regulatory gap for the NGS facility.

The EPA is hereby granting a project waiver of the Buy American requirements of ARRA Section 1605(a) under the authority of Section 1605(b)(2) (manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality) to the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA), a Clean Water State Revolving Fund/ARRA loan recipient, for the purchase of Air Release Vacuum (ARV) Valves manufactured by A.R.I. in Israel, for Project C-06-5176-110 and C-06-5176-130 funded by the California CWSRF ARRA Loan 08-835-550-1 and 08-850-550-1. The IEUA indicates that the design for the pipeline project at issue includes A.R.I. valves, which are the standard air relief structures used within the regional pipeline system, and that currently there is not a comparable domestic equivalent that meets the IEUA specifications. This is a project-specific waiver and only applies to the use of the specified product for the ARRA funded project being proposed. Any other ARRA project that may wish to use the same product must apply for a separate waiver based on project-specific circumstances. The Assistant Administrator of the Office of Administration and Resources Management has concurred with this decision to make an exception under section 1605(b)(2) of ARRA.