Environmental Protection Agency June 9, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On April 29, 2010, the EPA Administrator signed proposed emission standards for the following source categories: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters located at major sources; Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers located at area sources; and Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units. On the same date, the Administrator also signed a proposal entitled ``Identification of Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials That Are Solid Waste.'' EPA has received a request to schedule additional public hearings for these four related rulemakings. Given the significant public interest in these rules and to further public participation opportunities, EPA is granting the request and has scheduled three public hearings. These hearings will occur in Arlington, Virginia, on June 15, 2010; Houston, Texas, on June 22, 2010; and Los Angeles, California, on June 22, 2010. More information on the locations is shown in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

The Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting public nominations of experts to serve on potential workgroups or panels to advise the Agency on scientific and technical issues related to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.

This notice announces receipt of applications to register new uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active ingredients, pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. EPA is publishing this notice of such applications, pursuant to section 3(c)(4) of FIFRA.

Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Inventory) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory provisions pertaining to the manufacture of new chemicals. Under sections 5(d)(2) and 5(d)(3) of TSCA, EPA is required to publish a notice of receipt of a premanufacture notice (PMN) or an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), and to publish periodic status reports on the chemicals under review and the receipt of notices of commencement to manufacture those chemicals. This status report, which covers the period from March 1, 2010 to April 23, 2010, consists of the PMNs pending or expired, and the notices of commencement to manufacture a new chemical that the Agency has received under TSCA section 5 during this time period.

This notice announces the withdrawal of pesticide petitions (PPs) 5E4472, 5E4592, 6E4704, 8E7400, and 9E7603. The petitioners either voluntarily withdrew their petitions, or the petitions were administratively withdrawn by EPA.

EPA is making a finding that certain states have failed to submit State Implementation Plans (SIPs) to satisfy the attainment and maintenance interstate transport requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) with respect to the 2006 24-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (24-hour PM2.5). Pursuant to the CAA, states are required to submit SIPs that satisfy the requirements of the CAA related to interstate