Environmental Protection Agency March 8, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

EPA is taking a direct final action to approve revisions to the applicable State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the State of Texas which relate to the Application Schedule regulations submitted to EPA on September 25, 2003 and January 24, 2008. The portions of the SIP revision approved today would revise and recodify existing SIP

This notice provides the public with notification that EPA has prepared a draft Report to Congress: Study of Discharges Incidental to Normal Operation of Commercial Fishing Vessels and Other Non- Recreational Vessels Less than 79 feet. EPA conducted the study required by Public Law 110-299 and is publishing this draft report to seek public comment prior to finalizing the report. This draft report presents the information required by Public Law 110-299 on the types of wastewater discharged from commercial fishing vessels and non- recreational vessels less than 79 feet in length. The draft report can be accessed in its entirety at https://www.epa.gov/npdes/vessels. This notice is being issued to obtain public comment on the draft report.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is correcting a date in a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on December 1, 2009, 74 FR 62995, due to a date calculation error. The final rule established Clean Water Act technology-based Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for the Construction and Development point source category.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public meeting of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee NOX and SOX Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Review Panel (CASAC Panel) to peer review EPA's Policy Assessment for the Review of the Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for NOx and SOx: First External Review Draft (March 2010). The chartered CASAC will subsequently hold a public teleconference to review and approve the Panel's report.

EPA is providing notice that it has responded to a petition for reconsideration and a request for an administrative stay of certain provisions of the final rule titled, ``Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Wisconsin; NSR Reform Regulations, Rule AM-06-04'' published December 17, 2008. The final rule approved certain revisions to Wisconsin's Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Nonattainment New Source Review (NSR) construction permit programs, which Wisconsin submitted on May 25, 2006. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources sought approval of rule AM-06-04 to implement the NSR Reform provisions that were not vacated by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC Circuit) in New York v. EPA. On February 17, 2009, EPA received a petition for reconsideration pursuant to section 307(d)(7)(B) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Sierra Club. The petition also requested that EPA stay implementation of certain provisions of the final rule pending its reconsideration. The EPA considered the petition for reconsideration and request for an administrative stay, along with information contained in the rulemaking docket, in reaching a decision on both the petition and request for a stay. The EPA Administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, denied both the petition for reconsideration and request for stay in letters to the petitioners dated January 19, 2010.