Environmental Protection Agency February 11, 2015 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (``CAA'' or the ``Act''), notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree to address a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California: Sierra Club v. McCarthy, Civil Action No. 3:12-cv-6472-CRB (N.D. Cal.). On December 21, 2012, Plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that Gina McCarthy, in her official capacity as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), failed to perform a mandatory duty by not acting on 2006 PM 2.5 infrastructure state implementation plans (iSIPs) for six states and failed to promulgate transport federal implementation plans (FIPs) for an additional 20 states and the District of Columbia. The proposed consent decree would establish deadlines for EPA to take actions.

This notice announces EPA's order for the amendments to terminate uses, voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency, of products containing methomyl, pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This cancellation order follows a November 5, 2014, Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Requests from the registrants listed in Table 2 of Unit II. to voluntarily amend certain methomyl product registrations to terminate uses of barley, oats, and rye from these product registrations. These are not the last products containing this pesticide registered for use in the United States. In the November 5, 2014, notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order implementing the amendments to terminate uses unless the Agency received substantive comments within the 30-day comment period that would merit its further review of these requests, or unless the registrants withdrew their requests. The Agency did not receive any comments on the notice. Further, the registrants did not withdraw their requests. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order granting the requested amendments to terminate uses. Any distribution, sale, or use of the products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions to the Butte County Air Quality Management District's (BCAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic compounds (VOCs), oxides of nitrogen (NOX), and particulate matter (PM) emissions from open burning. We are proposing action on a local rule that regulates these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.

This notice announces that pesticide related information submitted to EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including information that may have been claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI) by the submitter, will be transferred to Badger Technical Services, LLC, in accordance with 40 CFR 2.307(h)(3) and 2.308(i)(2). Badger Technical Services, LLC, has been awarded multiple contracts to perform work for OPP, and access to this information will enable Badger Technical Services, LLC, to fulfill the obligations of the contract.