Environmental Protection Agency June 26, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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EPA Activities To Promote Environmental Justice in the Permit Application Process
As part of its ongoing efforts under Plan EJ 2014 to integrate environmental justice into all of its programs, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting public comment on ways that EPA and permit applicants can meaningfully engage communities in the permitting process. This notice describes and seeks comment on actions that EPA regional offices can take when issuing EPA permits to promote greater participation in the permitting process by communities that have historically been underrepresented in that process. This notice also announces the availability of draft best practices for permit applicants seeking EPA-issued permits (located in the appendix to this notice). The best practices are designed to encourage and assist permit applicants to reach out to neighboring communities when applying for permits that may affect the community's quality of life, including their health and environment.
Proposed Consent Decree
In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (``Act''), notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree to resolve two lawsuits filed by various parties and consolidated in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs filed the lawsuits under the Act alleging that EPA has violated a nondiscretionary duty under the Clean Air Act, to complete a five-year review of the national ambient air quality standards (``NAAQS'') for particulate matter. Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, EPA agrees that no later than December 14, 2012, EPA shall sign a notice of final rulemaking setting forth its final decision concerning its review of the NAAQS for particulate matter and promulgating such revisions to the NAAQS and/or promulgating such new NAAQS as may be appropriate.
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri: Regional Haze
EPA is finalizing a limited approval of a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Missouri, submitted by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources on August 5, 2009, and supplemented on January 30, 2012, that addresses Regional Haze for the first implementation period. Specifically, these revisions address the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and EPA's rules that required States to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in Class I Areas (national parks and wilderness areas) caused by emissions of air pollutants located over a wide geographic area (also known as the ``regional haze'' program). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA proposed to approve these revisions on February 28, 2012 (77 FR 11958). In a separate rulemaking action, EPA finalized the limited disapproval of Missouri's regional haze SIP and imposed a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for Missouri on June 7, 2012. 77 FR 33642.
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Iowa: Regional Haze
EPA is finalizing a limited approval of a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Iowa, submitted by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources on March 25, 2008, that addresses Regional Haze for the first implementation period. Specifically, these revisions address the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and EPA's rules that required States to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in Class I areas (national parks and wilderness areas) caused by emissions of air pollutants located over a wide geographic area (also known as the ``regional haze'' program). EPA proposed to approve these revisions on February 28, 2012. In a separate rulemaking action, EPA finalized the limited disapproval of Iowa's regional haze SIP and imposed a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for Iowa which was signed on May 30, 2012, and published in the Federal Register on June 7, 2012.
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