Environmental Protection Agency August 2, 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice is hereby given that the State of Connecticut and the State of New Hampshire are in the process of revising their respective approved Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) programs to meet the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revamping and renaming the Office of Criminal Enforcement Forensics and Training's (OCEFT) recordkeeping system for criminal cases. The back-end technology and user interface software are new, but the entirety of the content of OCEFT's current system, EPA 17, Criminal Investigative Files and Index, is being retained in the modified and renamed system. The new name of the modified system EPA-17 is ``Online Criminal Enforcement Activities Network (OCEAN).'' In addition, EPA is adding to the current system contents, a category of records related to EPA Criminal Investigation Division, National Capital Area Office (NCAO)'s, protective service detail responsibilities regarding threat information received by the Agency. The EPA-17 exemption from certain Privacy Act provisions applies as well to this new category of threat information records.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving three state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Delaware. One revision requests EPA remove from the Delaware SIP a state regulation governing emissions from Electric Arc Furnaces (EAFs) because there are no such sources in Delaware and the State has already repealed this regulation. Delaware's remaining SIP revisions amend two SIP approved regulations in order to remove references to the EAF regulation. EPA is approving these revisions to remove the EAF regulation and references to the EAF regulation in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Montana on August 6, 2018. The revisions include an update to incorporate by reference the 2016 version of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and 2015 version of the United States Code (U.S.C.) within the Administrative Rules of Montana (ARM) that are part of the Montana SIP. The revisions also include administrative changes that consolidate the ARM's references to the CFR and U.S.C. and remove two CFR exemptions from incorporation by reference into the ARM. Additional revisions remove incorporation by reference of certain EPA standards for which the State already has delegated authority from the EPA.