Environmental Protection Agency August 19, 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

EPA is announcing the availability of and soliciting public comment on a manufacturer request for a risk evaluation of di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The request was made by Evonik Corporation, ExxonMobil Chemical Company and Teknor Apex, through the American Chemistry Council's High Phthalates Council. EPA conducts risk evaluations to determine whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment without consideration of costs or other non-risk factors, including an unreasonable risk to potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations, under the conditions of use. In the docket associated with this request is the manufacturer request for an EPA conducted risk evaluation and possible additional conditions of use EPA has identified for inclusion within the scope of a risk evaluation of DINP. After considering comments received in response to this solicitation, EPA will make a decision whether to grant or deny the manufacturer request. All TSCA risk evaluations, whether EPA-initiated or manufacturer- requested, will be conducted in the same manner.

Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving revisions to New Mexico's State Implementation Plan (SIP) that incorporate updates to the New Mexico statutes. EPA is also correcting its previous approval of some statute provisions to provide clarification of the approval action taken.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a revision to the Minnesota sulfur dioxide (SO2) State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Flint Hills Resources, LLC Pine Bend Refinery (FHR) as submitted on October 23, 2018. The SIP revision pertains to the shutdown and replacement of certain equipment at the refinery as well as amendments to certain emission limits, resulting in an overall decrease of SO2 emissions from FHR.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) on January 11, 2019, concerning the state's Emissions Reduction Market System (ERMS) program for the Chicago ozone nonattainment area (NAA) in Illinois. The revision sunsets the ERMS program and effectively removes from the SIP provisions in 35 Illinois Administrative Code (35 IAC) Part 205, as the ERMS program is no longer effective in providing any additional emissions reductions or environmental benefit. The submittal also includes a demonstration under section 110(l) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that addresses emission impacts associated with the sunsetting of the program.