Environmental Protection Agency March 11, 2020 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Notice of Availability of Draft NPDES Great Bay Total Nitrogen General Permit for Wastewater Treatment Facilities in New Hampshire; Reopening of Comment Period
EPA issued a Notice of Availability of the draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Great Bay Total Nitrogen General Permit for Wastewater Treatment Facilities in New Hampshire, published in the Federal Register on January 7, 2020. This notice reopens the comment period through April 8, 2020. Comments submitted anytime between January 7, 2020 and April 8, 2020 will be accepted and considered.
Clean Water Act: Virginia-Sarah Creek and Perrin River Vessel Sewage No-Discharge Zone-Tentative Affirmative Determination
Notice is hereby given that an application for a no-discharge zone has been received from the Secretary of Natural Resources on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia requesting a determination by the Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Mid-Atlantic Region, that adequate facilities for the safe and sanitary removal and treatment of sewage from all vessels are reasonably available for the Sarah Creek and Perrin River, Gloucester County, Virginia. The EPA is requesting comments on this application and whether the EPA should finalize its tentative affirmative determination or make a negative determination on the proposed designation for Sarah Creek and Perrin River as provided in the Clean Water Act. The application is available upon request from the EPA (at the email address below) or at https://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/ WaterQualityInformationTMDLs/TMDL/NoDischargeZoneDesignations .aspx.
Air Plan Approval; GA and NC: Infrastructure Requirements for the 2015 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving portions of the Georgia and North Carolina State Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions provided on September 24, 2018, and September 27, 2018, respectively. The submissions pertain to the infrastructure requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) for the 2015 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). Whenever EPA promulgates a new or revised NAAQS, the CAA requires that each state adopt and submit a SIP submission to establish that state's implementation plan meets infrastructure requirements for the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of each such NAAQS. Georgia and North Carolina each made the required SIP submissions to assure that their SIPs contain provisions that ensure the 2015 8-hour ozone NAAQS is implemented, enforced, and maintained in their State. EPA has in this action determined that the Georgia and North Carolina infrastructure SIP submissions satisfy certain required infrastructure elements for the 2015 8-hour ozone NAAQS.
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program's Extension to Substitutes
The Clean Air Act prohibits knowingly venting or releasing ozone-depleting and substitute refrigerants in the course of maintaining, servicing, repairing, or disposing of appliances or industrial process refrigeration. In 2016, the EPA amended the regulatory refrigerant management requirements and extended requirements that previously applied only to refrigerants containing an ozone-depleting substance to substitute refrigerants that are subject to the venting prohibition (i.e., those that have not been exempted from that prohibition) such as hydrofluorocarbons. Based on changes to the legal interpretation that supported that 2016 rule, this action revises some of those requirementsspecifically, the appliance maintenance and leak repair provisionsso they apply only to equipment using refrigerant containing an ozone-depleting substance.
Air Plan Approval; Georgia; Revisions to Aerospace VOC Rule
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Georgia, through the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD), on June 6, 2019, for the purpose of updating Georgia's rule titled Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions from Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework Facilities. EPA is taking final action on this Georgia SIP revision because it is consistent with the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act).
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