Environmental Protection Agency January 31, 2020 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 announces the deletion of the surface and unsaturated subsurface soils outside of the 4.5 acre Treated Soils Area of the Idaho Pole Co. Superfund Site (Site) located in Bozeman, Montana from the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL, promulgated pursuant to section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, is an appendix of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP). This partial deletion pertains to the surface and unsaturated subsurface soils remedy component outside of the 4.5 acre Treated Soils Area of the Idaho Pole Company Superfund Site. The groundwater, sediments and saturated subsurface soils are being addressed as part of the groundwater remedy component and are not being considered for deletion as part of this action. The EPA and the State of Montana, through the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), have determined that all appropriate response actions under CERCLA, other than operation and maintenance, monitoring-and five-year reviews, have been completed. However, the deletion of the surface and unsaturated surface soils outside of the 4.5 acre Treated Soils Area does not preclude future actions under Superfund.

This notice announces EPA's approval of the State of Iowa's request to revise/modify certain of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.

On October 2, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 Administrator signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between EPA Region 1 and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) for delegation of New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs). The MOA was signed by the Commissioner of CT DEEP on September 10, 2019. To inform the public of the EPA and CT DEEP's October 2, 2019 MOA regarding delegation of NSPS and NESHAPs, the EPA is making a copy of the MOA available through this document.

This regulation extends time-limited tolerances for residues of five pesticides on various commodities, as identified in this document. These actions are in response to EPA's granting of emergency exemptions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizing use of these pesticides. In addition, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) requires EPA to establish a time-limited tolerance or exemption from the requirement for a tolerance for pesticide chemical residues in food that will result from the use of a pesticide under an emergency exemption granted by EPA.