Environmental Protection Agency February 12, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice announces that on December 1, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 Regional Administrator determined that the Kalispel Tribe meets the eligibility requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to be treated in the same manner as a state (TAS) for non-regulatory purposes under certain CAA provisions. None of the provisions for which the Kalispel Tribe requested eligibility entails the exercise of Tribal regulatory authority under the CAA.

On January 15, 2021, the Regional Administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 6 approved the request of the State of Texas' for Partial National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program authorization for discharges from produced water, hydrostatic test water and gas plant effluent, hereafter referred to as oil and gas discharges, within the State of Texas. On October 12, 2020, the Governor of Texas submitted the application for NPDES oil and gas authorization, seeking approval for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to implement a Major Category Partial NPDES Program as provided for under the Clean Water Act (CWA or ``the Act''). Today, the EPA is providing public notice of the approval of the State's submittal of the application for NPDES oil and gas authorization.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hereby providing notice of a proposed settlement agreement concerning the Mohawk Tannery Site in Nashua, New Hampshire. The settlement agreement is entered into pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (``CERCLA''), and the authority of the Attorney General of the United States to compromise and settle claims of the United States. The proposed settlement agreement is between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') and bona fide prospective purchaser Blaylock Holdings, LLC (``Settling Party''). The proposed Settlement Agreement requires the Settling Party to conduct work under EPA oversight in exchange for a covenant not to sue pursuant to sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, for existing contamination at the Mohawk Tannery Site. The Settlement provides the Settling Party with pre-authorized mixed funding for the work. The Settling Party consents to and will not contest the authority of the United States to enter into this Agreement or to implement or enforce its terms. The Settling Parties recognize that this Agreement has been negotiated in good faith and that this Agreement is entered into without the admission or adjudication of any issue of fact or law.

The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), Application for Reference and Equivalent Method Determination'' (EPA ICR No. 0559.14, OMB Control No. 2080-0005) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through June 20, 2021. An Agency may not conduct, or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR or Wisconsin) on December 13, 2019. Wisconsin requests that EPA approve rules related to control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from offset lithographic printing operations into Wisconsin's SIP. These revisions include amendments to the Wisconsin Administrative Code (WAC), Chapter NR 422. These revisions are approvable because they are consistent with the latest Control Techniques Guideline (CTG) for Offset Lithographic Printing and Letterpress Printing, published by EPA in 2006, and such revisions clarify and streamline the VOC reasonably available control technology (RACT) requirements for lithographic printing facilities located in nine counties in Wisconsin (Kenosha, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Washington, and Waukesha). EPA proposed to approve this action on September 25, 2020 and received no comments.