Environmental Protection Agency April 23, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This document announces that the EPA Administrator has responded to citizen petitions asking EPA to object to operating permits (Permit No. 2560-0028-V0, Permit No. 3086-V0, and Permit No. 2560-0028-V1) issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ). Specifically, the Administrator has granted the June 25, 2010 and May 3, 2011 petitions, submitted by Zen-Noh Grain Corporation (``Zen-Noh'' or ``Petitioner'') to object to the May 24, 2010 and January 27, 2011, operating permits issued to Consolidated Environmental Management, Inc.Nucor Steel Louisiana (``Nucor'') in Saint James Parish, Louisiana. Pursuant to sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), a petition for judicial review of those parts of the Order that deny issues in the petition may be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit within 60 days from the date this notice appears in the Federal Register.

EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Hawaii State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions would update and replace the minor new source review rules that EPA approved into the Hawaii SIP in 1983.

On October 6, 2009, the EPA adopted amendments to the September 15, 1997, new source performance standards and emissions guidelines for hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators. The amendments were developed in response to the March 2, 1999, remand of the 1997 hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators regulations by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the Court), which requested further explanation of the EPA's reasoning in determining the minimum regulatory emission standards for new and existing hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators. Today's action proposes amendments to the hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators federal plan to implement the amended emission guidelines adopted on October 6, 2009, for those states that do not have an approved revised/new state plan implementing the emission guidelines, as amended, in place by October 6, 2011. Today's action also proposes to amend the new source performance standards to better reflect our original intent in the October 6, 2009, final rule in eliminating an exemption during startup, shutdown and malfunction periods from the requirement to comply with standards at all times.