Environmental Protection Agency September 4, 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit
Document Number: 2019-19100
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-09-04
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (``CAA'' or the ``Act''), notice is given of a proposed consent decree in Center for Biological Diversity, et al., v. Wheeler, No. 4:18-cv-03544 (N.D. Cal.). On June 4, 2018, the Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, and Sierra Club filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and filed an amended complaint on December 17, 2018, alleging that the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') failed to perform non-discretionary duties to take final action to approve or disapprove, in whole or in part, certain state implementation plans (``SIPs'') submitted to meet attainment requirements under the 2010 primary sulfur dioxide (``SO2'') national ambient air quality standard (``NAAQS''), and to make findings of failure to submit SIPs for certain areas for the 1971 or 2010 primary SO2 NAAQS. The proposed consent decree would establish deadlines for EPA to take specified actions.
Proposed CERCLA Cost Recovery Settlement Regarding the Lightman Drum Company Superfund Site, Camden County, New Jersey
Document Number: 2019-19098
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-09-04
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), Region 2, of a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement pursuant to CERCLA between EPA and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; Alco Industries Inc.; Bayer CropScience, Inc.; Colonial Heights Packaging Inc.; Continental Holdings Inc.; Croda Inks Corp.; Forenco, Inc.; Henkel US Operations Corporation, for itself and on behalf of Amchem Products, Inc,; LANXESS Sybron Chemicals, Inc.; Reynolds Metals Company, LLC; The Hillshire Brands Company; Sonoco Products Company; Stepan Company; Union Carbide Corporation; and USG Corporation (``Settling Parties'') regarding the Lightman Drum Company Superfund Site, Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey (``Site''). Pursuant to the proposed cost recovery settlement agreement, the Settling Parties will pay $13,526.88 to resolve the Settling Parties' civil liability under Section 107(a) of CERCLA for past response costs and will pay future response costs for the Site.
Open Meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board
Document Number: 2019-19093
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-09-04
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) will hold a public meeting on October 16-18, 2019 in the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area. The EFAB is an EPA advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to provide advice and recommendations to EPA on creative approaches to funding environmental programs, projects, and activities. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss recommendations from EFAB work products; to discuss changes to the EFAB's process of selecting new topics and developing recommendations; and to discuss stormwater funding and financing. The meeting is open to the public; however, seating is limited. All members of the public who wish to attend the meeting must register in advance, no later than Monday, September 30, 2019 at https://epaefaboctober2019.eventbrite.com.
Environmental Modeling Public Meeting; Notice of Public Meeting
Document Number: 2019-19067
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-09-04
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
An Environmental Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held on Wednesday October 16, 2019. This Notice announces the location and time for the meeting and provides tentative agenda topics. The EMPM provides a public forum for EPA and its stakeholders to discuss current issues related to modeling pesticide fate, transport, exposure, and ecotoxicity for pesticide risk assessments in a regulatory context.
Product Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide Registrations; Correction
Document Number: 2019-19031
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-09-04
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
EPA issued a cancellation order in the Federal Register of August 14, 2019, concerning the cancellations voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency. This notice is being issued to correct the cancellation order in Table 1, of Unit II., to remove three entries that the registrant inadvertently requested be cancelled.
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Coating Manufacturing Residual Risk and Technology Review
Document Number: 2019-18344
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2019-09-04
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing the results of a residual risk and technology review (RTR) of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Miscellaneous Coating Manufacturing (MCM NESHAP) facilities, as required by the Clean Air Act (CAA). The EPA is proposing to find risks due to emissions of air toxics to be acceptable from the MCM source category and to determine that the current NESHAP provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health. The EPA identified no new cost-effective controls under the technology review to achieve further emissions reductions from process units subject to standards under the NESHAP. The EPA is also proposing revisions related to emissions during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM), including clarifying regulatory provisions for certain vent control bypasses; provisions for electronic reporting of performance test results, performance evaluation reports, compliance reports, and Notification of Compliance Status (NOCS) reports; and provisions to conduct periodic performance testing of oxidizers used to reduce emissions of organic hazardous air pollutants (HAP).
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