Environmental Protection Agency October 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
Document Number: 2021-23633
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA), National Enforcement Investigations Center (NEIC) is giving notice that it proposes to create a new system of records pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974. The National Enforcement Investigations Center Master Tracking System (MTS) will contain information related to investigations of persons or organizations alleged to have violated any federal environmental statute or regulation or, pursuant to a cooperative agreement with a state, local, or tribal authority, an environmental statute or regulation of such authority. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will separately add exemptions for this system of records to the Agency's Privacy Act regulations at 40 CFR part 16.
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2021-23594
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Dicloran (DCNA); Amendments To Terminate Uses for Certain Pesticide Registrations
Document Number: 2021-23589
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces EPA's final order for the amendments to terminate uses on geraniums and hydrangeas, voluntarily requested by the registrant, and accepted by the Agency, of products containing dicloran (DCNA), pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation order follows a May 5, 2021 Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Requests from the registrant listed in Table 2 of Unit II. to voluntarily cancel product use on geraniums and hydrangeas for these product registrations. These are not the only products containing this pesticide registered for use in the United States. In the May 5, 2021 notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order implementing the amendment to terminate use, unless the Agency received substantive comments within the 30-day comment period that would merit its further review of these requests, or unless the registrant withdrew their request. The Agency did not receive any comments on the notice. Further, the registrant did not withdraw their request. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order granting the requested amendment to terminate DCNA use on geranium and hydrangeas. Any distribution, sale, or use of the products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions.
Issuance of an Experimental Use Permit
Document Number: 2021-23586
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
EPA issued an experimental use permit (EUP) to the pesticide applicant described in Unit II. of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. An EUP permits use of a pesticide for experimental or research purposes only in accordance with the limitations in the permit.
TSCA Section 21 Petition for Rulemaking Under TSCA Section 6; Reasons for Agency Response; Denial of Requested Rulemaking
Document Number: 2021-23569
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This action announces the availability of EPA's response to a petition received on August 2, 2021, from William D. Bush. The petition requests that EPA determine ``that the chemical mixtures contained within cigarettes present an unreasonable risk of injury to health and the environment.'' The petitioner also seeks issuance of a rule or order to ``eliminate the hazardous chemicals used in a mixture with tobacco,'' and to ``develop material techniques of biodegradation to counter or reduce'' environmental risk from current disposal methods of cigarettes under section 6(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). After careful consideration, EPA has denied the TSCA section 21 petition for the reasons set forth in this document.
Approval and Promulgation of State Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants: Massachusetts; 111(d)/129 Revised State Plan for Large Municipal Waste Combustors
Document Number: 2021-23545
Type: Rule
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving the Clean Air Act State Plan revisions for Large Municipal Waste Combustors (MWCs) submitted by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) on December 18, 2018. The revised State Plan is in response to amended emission guidelines (EGs) for Large MWCs promulgated on May 10, 2006. MassDEP's State Plan is for implementing and enforcing provisions at least as protective as the EGs applicable to existing Large MWCs. This action is being taken under the Clean Air Act.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Acid Rain Program (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23539
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Acid Rain Program (EPA ICR Number 1633.18, OMB Control Number 2060-0258) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 2, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Pesticide Registration Review; Pesticide Dockets Opened for Review and Comment; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2021-23535
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the availability of the EPA's preliminary work plans for Pseudomonas fluorescens. With this document, the EPA is opening the public comment period for registration review for this chemical.
Pesticide Registration Review; Draft Human Health and/or Ecological Risk Assessments for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2021-23531
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the availability of EPA's draft human health and/or ecological risk assessments for the registration review of 2-(Thiocyanomethylthio)-benzothiazole (TCMTB); chlorflurenol methyl ester (CME); dodine/dodecylguanidine hydrochloride (DGH); pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB); permethrin; pyridalyl and spirodiclofen.
Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Active Ingredients (October 2021)
Document Number: 2021-23529
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-29
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
EPA has received applications to register pesticide products containing active ingredients not included in any currently registered pesticide products. Pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is hereby providing notice of receipt and opportunity to comment on these applications.
Air Plan Approval; California; Ventura County Air Pollution Control District
Document Number: 2021-23538
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District (VCAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from surface cleaning and degreasing operations, and from batch loaded vapor degreasing operations. We are proposing to approve changes to SIP-approved local rules to regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Water Quality Standards Regulation (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23503
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Water Quality Standards Regulation (EPA ICR Number 0988.15, OMB Control Number 2040-0049), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on March 24, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Air Emissions Reporting Requirements (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23502
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Air Emissions Reporting Requirements (EPA ICR Number 2170.08, OMB Control Number 2060-0580) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 7, 2021, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; California; Eastern Kern, Sacramento Metro, and Western Nevada 2015 Ozone Nonattainment Areas; Reclassification to Serious
Document Number: 2021-23454
Type: Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is granting requests by the California Air Resources Board (CARB or ``State'') to reclassify three nonattainment areas in California from ``Moderate'' to ``Serious'' for the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). These three areas are herein referred to as the Eastern Kern, Sacramento Metro, and Western Nevada nonattainment areas. In connection with the reclassification, the EPA is establishing deadlines for submittal of revisions to the Eastern Kern, Sacramento Metro, and Western Nevada portions of the California State implementation plan (SIP) to meet additional requirements for Serious ozone nonattainment areas.
Strategy To Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities
Document Number: 2021-23421
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on its draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities. The EPA has developed this lead strategy to further reduce lead exposures in communities, and particularly those with environmental justice concerns.
Air Plan Approval; Nevada; Revisions to Clark County Ozone Maintenance Plan
Document Number: 2021-23377
Type: Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve a revision to the State of Nevada's state implementation plan (SIP) for Clark County. The revision consists of an update to certain elements of the maintenance plan for the Clark County air quality planning area for the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS or ``standards''), including certain emissions inventories and motor vehicle emissions budgets. The EPA is approving the SIP revision because the Clark County ozone maintenance plan, as revised, continues to provide for maintenance of the 1997 ozone NAAQS and will not interfere with attainment or reasonable further progress of the other NAAQS, and the motor vehicle emissions budgets meet the applicable transportation conformity requirements.
Clean Air Plans; Base Year Emissions Inventories for the 2015 Ozone Standards; California; Extension of Comment Period
Document Number: 2021-23370
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for the proposed rule ``Clean Air Plans; Base Year Emissions Inventories for the 2015 Ozone Standards; California.'' The agency is extending the comment period for 30 days in response to a stakeholder request for an extension. Thirty days from November 4, 2021, is December 4, 2021, which is a Saturday; therefore, the EPA is extending the comment period to the following Monday, December 6, 2021.
Air Plan Approval; South Carolina; 2018 General Assembly New Source Review Update
Document Number: 2021-23350
Type: Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing approval of State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of South Carolina, through the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC or Department), on April 24, 2020. The SIP revisions update the State's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattainment New Source Review (NNSR) regulations. Specifically, the SIP revisions add and update several definitions for consistency with the Federal regulations, update public participation requirements for PSD, clarify the applicability of ``source impact analysis'' for PSD, add an emissions offset banking provision for NNSR, and make administrative updates, such as typographical corrections and renumbering. Finally, the changes incorporate language that addresses the public notice rule provisions for NNSR, which removes the mandatory requirements to provide public notice in a newspaper and instead allows for electronic notice (``e- notice'') as an alternate noticing option for the State. EPA is approving these revisions pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and implementing Federal regulations.
Air Plan Approval; SC; Revisions to Definitions
Document Number: 2021-23349
Type: Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing approval of a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of South Carolina, through the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC or Department), on April 24, 2020. The SIP revision updates the definition of ``Spec. Oil (Specification Oil)'' and makes minor updates to formatting and numbering. EPA is finalizing approval of these changes pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and implementing federal regulations.
Air Plan Approval; NC; Removal of Transportation Facilities Rules for Mecklenburg County
Document Number: 2021-23348
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision to the Mecklenburg County portion of the North Carolina SIP, hereinafter referred to as the Mecklenburg Local Implementation Plan (LIP). The revision was submitted by the State of North Carolina, through the North Carolina Division of Air Quality (NCDAQ), on behalf of Mecklenburg County Air Quality via a letter dated April 24, 2020. The SIP revision seeks to remove transportation facilities rules from the Mecklenburg County Air Pollution Control Ordinance (MCAPCO) rules incorporated into the LIP. EPA is proposing to approve these changes pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act).
Regulation of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals Under TSCA Section 6(h); Phenol, Isopropylated Phosphate (3:1); Further Compliance Date Extension
Document Number: 2021-23337
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-28
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to amend the regulations applicable to phenol, isopropylated phosphate (3:1) (PIP (3:1)) promulgated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Specifically, EPA is proposing to extend the compliance date applicable to the processing and distribution in commerce of certain PIP (3:1)-containing articles, and the PIP (3:1) used to make those articles until October 31, 2024, along with the associated recordkeeping requirements for manufacturers, processors, and distributors of PIP (3:1)-containing articles. EPA is also announcing its intention to commence a new rulemaking effort on PIP (3:1) and four other persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals that have been regulated under TSCA section 6(h). EPA is anticipating issuing a proposal to this end in 2023.
Proposed Consent Decree, Safe Drinking Water Act Claims
Document Number: 2021-23427
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
In accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's October 16, 2017, Directive Promoting Transparency and Public Participation in Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements, EPA is giving notice of a proposed consent decree to address a complaint filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that EPA failed to perform a mandatory duty under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). On January 19, 2021, the Plaintiffs filed a complaint pursuant to the SDWA alleging failure of the Administrator to issue revisions to EPA's consumer confidence report regulations by October 23, 2020. Under the proposed Consent Decree, the EPA would agree to a deadline for issuing the revisions.
Proposed CERCLA Cost Recovery and Work Administrative Settlement: Wampus Milford Associates Site, Milford, Connecticut
Document Number: 2021-23394
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Notice is hereby given of a proposed cost recovery and work administrative settlement concerning the Wampus Milford Associates Site (Site), located in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, with the Settling Party, FCI USA LLC. The proposed settlement requires the Settling Party to conduct a removal action estimated to cost approximately $1.2 million at the Wood Block Area of the Site and pay all of EPA's future response costs in overseeing the removal work. The parameters of the removal action include, but are not limited to, excavation and disposal of soil/ woodblock debris contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. In exchange, EPA will provide the Settling Party with a covenant not to sue for the work, future response costs related to the work, and EPA's past response costs, which are approximately $105,800. For 30 days following the date of publication of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments relating to the settlement for cost recovery and response work.
Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Uses
Document Number: 2021-23390
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
EPA has received applications to register new uses for pesticide products containing currently registered active ingredients. Pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is hereby providing notice of receipt and opportunity to comment on these applications.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NOX
Document Number: 2021-23369
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NOX SIP Call (EPA ICR Number 1857.12, OMB Control Number 2060-0445) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April, 6, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Servicing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23368
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Servicing of Motor Vehicle Air Conditioners (EPA ICR Number 1617.10, OMB Control Number 2060-0247) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 16, 2021, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Contractor Cumulative Claim and Reconciliation (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23367
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), Contractor Cumulative Claim and Reconciliation (EPA ICR Number 0246.14, OMB Control Number 2030-0016) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). 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 December 30, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 12, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Contractor Conflicts of Interest (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23366
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Contractor Conflicts of Interest (EPA ICR Number 1550.12, OMB Control Number 2030-0023) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 9, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC); Request For Nominations of Ad Hoc Expert Reviewers To Consider for Participation in Two Early 2022 Reviews
Document Number: 2021-23362
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requests public nominations of scientific experts to consider for service as ad hoc reviewers assisting the SACC with two peer review topics anticipated for early 2022: The draft EPA TSCA Systematic Review Protocol; and the draft EPA TSCA Screening Level Approach for Assessing Ambient Air and Water Exposures to Fenceline Communities. Any interested person or organization may nominate qualified individuals to be considered prospective candidates for these reviews by following the instructions provided in this document. Individuals may also self-nominate.
Fortieth Update of the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket
Document Number: 2021-23357
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Since 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has maintained a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (``Docket'') under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA requires EPA to establish a Docket that contains certain information reported to EPA by Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or from which a reportable quantity of hazardous substances has been released. This notice identifies the Federal facilities not previously listed on the Docket and identifies Federal facilities reported to EPA since the last update on April 29, 2021. In addition to the list of additions to the Docket, this notice includes a section with revisions of the previous Docket list and a section of Federal facilities that are to be deleted from the Docket. Thus, the revisions in this update include one addition, three deletions, and two corrections to the Docket since the previous update.
Air Plan Approval; Michigan and Wisconsin; Finding of Failure To Attain the 2010 Sulfur Dioxide Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for the Detroit and Rhinelander Nonattainment Areas
Document Number: 2021-23274
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine that the Detroit and Rhinelander sulfur dioxide (SO2) nonattainment areas failed to attain the 2010 primary 1-hour SO2 national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS or ``standard'') by the applicable attainment date of October 4, 2018. This proposed determination is based upon air quality modeling using actual and allowable emissions for the Detroit area and monitored air quality data from January 2015 to December 2017 for the Rhinelander area. If EPA finalizes these determinations as proposed, within one year after EPA publishes a final rule the States of Michigan and Wisconsin will be required to submit revisions to their State Implementation Plans (SIPs) that, among other elements, provide for expeditious attainment of the 2010 SO2 standard. However, for the Rhinelander area, if EPA approves the recent revised SIP submission submitted by the State of Wisconsin, EPA is proposing to treat that submission as satisfying the requirement to submit revisions to the SIP to address the failure to timely attain the 2010 SO2 NAAQS.
Air Plan Approval; Oklahoma; Updates to the General SIP and Incorporation by Reference Provisions
Document Number: 2021-23035
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve identified portions of two revisions to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Oklahoma designee on May 15, 2020, and February 9, 2021. This action addresses the revisions submitted to the Oklahoma SIP pertaining to the general SIP definitions and the incorporation by reference of Federal requirements under Oklahoma Administrative Code (OAC).
Approval and Promulgation of State Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; Florida; Control of Emissions From Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Document Number: 2021-22914
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-27
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111(d) plan submitted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) on December 22, 2020. This plan was submitted to fulfill the requirements of the CAA and is responsive to EPA's promulgation of Emissions Guidelines and Compliance Times for municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. The Florida plan establishes emission limits for existing MSW landfills and provides for the implementation and enforcement of those limits.
Air Plan Approval; Michigan; Base Year Emissions Inventory for the 2010 Sulfur Dioxide Standard
Document Number: 2021-23116
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-26
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve, under the Clean Air Act (CAA), revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Michigan department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) on June 30, 2021. The revisions address the emission inventory requirements for the St. Clair County nonattainment area under the 2010 sulfur dioxide (SO2) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or standard). The CAA requires states to develop and submit, as SIP revisions, emission inventories for all areas designated as nonattainment for any NAAQS.
Air Plan Approval; Missouri Redesignation Request and Associated Maintenance Plan for the Jackson County 2010 SO2
Document Number: 2021-22746
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-26
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
On February 18, 2021, the State of Missouri submitted a request for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to redesignate the Jackson County, Missouri, 2010 1-hour sulfur dioxide (SO2) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) nonattainment area to attainment and approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision containing a maintenance plan for the area. The State provided a supplement to the maintenance plan on September 7, 2021. In response to these submittals, the EPA is proposing to take the following actions: Approve the State's plan for maintaining attainment of the 2010 1-hour SO2 primary standard in the area; and approve the State's request to redesignate the Jackson County SO2 nonattainment area to attainment for the 2010 1-hour SO2 primary standard. This redesignation action, if finalized, will address the EPA's obligation under a consent decree which establishes a deadline of March 31, 2022 for the EPA to determine under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 179(c) whether the Jackson County SO2 nonattainment area attained the NAAQS by the October 4, 2018 attainment date.
Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee; Notice of Charter Renewal
Document Number: 2021-23328
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-26
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. app. 2, the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC) is in the public interest and is necessary in connection with the performance of EPA's duties. Accordingly, PPDC will be renewed for an additional two-year period. The purpose of PPDC is to provide advice and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on issues associated with regulatory development and reform initiatives, evolving public policy and program implementation issues, and science issues associated with evaluating and reducing risks from use of pesticide.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program Annual Measures Reporting (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23196
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-25
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program Annual Measures Reporting, (EPA ICR Number 2415.04, OMB Control Number 2070-0188) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through October 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on March 31, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Certain New Chemicals or Significant New Uses; Statements of Findings for August 2021
Document Number: 2021-23190
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-25
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires EPA to publish in the Federal Register a statement of its findings after its review of certain TSCA notices when EPA makes a finding that a new chemical substance or significant new use is not likely to present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. Such statements apply to premanufacture notices (PMNs), microbial commercial activity notices (MCANs), and significant new use notices (SNUNs) submitted to EPA under TSCA. This document presents statements of findings made by EPA on such submissions during the period from August 1, 2021 to August 31, 2021.
Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations and Amend Registrations To Terminate Certain Uses
Document Number: 2021-23178
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-25
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
In accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by the registrants to voluntarily cancel their registrations of certain products and to amend certain product registrations to terminate uses. EPA intends to grant these requests at the close of the comment period for this announcement unless the Agency receives substantive comments within the comment period that would merit its further review of the requests, or unless the registrants withdrew their requests. If these requests are granted, any sale, distribution, or use of products listed in this notice will be permitted after the registration has been cancelled and uses terminated only if such sale, distribution, or use is consistent with the terms as described in the final order.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Allegations of Significant Adverse Reactions to Human Health or the Environment (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23122
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-25
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), ``Allegations of Significant Adverse Reactions to Human Health or the Environment'' (EPA ICR Number 1031.12 and OMB Control Number 2070-0017) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR which is currently approved through October 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on March 29, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Air Plan Approval; AK; Juneau, Mendenhall Valley Second 10-Year PM10
Document Number: 2021-23040
Type: Rule
Date: 2021-10-25
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving the Juneau, Mendenhall Valley, Alaska (AK) limited maintenance plan (LMP) submitted on November 10, 2020, by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC or ``the State''). This plan addresses the second 10-year maintenance period after redesignation for particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 10 micrometers (PM10). The plan relies upon control measures contained in the first 10-year maintenance plan and the determination that the Mendenhall Valley area currently monitors PM10 levels well below the PM10 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or ``the standard''). The EPA is approving Alaska's LMP as meeting Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements.
Notification of Regional Roundtable Discussions Regarding “Waters of the United States”
Document Number: 2021-23039
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2021-10-25
Agency: Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers
On June 9, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army (hereafter, ``the agencies'') announced their intent to revise the definition of ``waters of the United States'' under the Clean Water Act through two rulemakings first, a foundational rule that will propose to restore longstanding protections, and a second rulemaking process that builds on that regulatory foundation. On July 30, 2021, the agencies announced stakeholder engagement opportunities, including the agencies' intent to host ten regionally focused roundtables. EPA and Army are announcing a process for stakeholders to submit nomination letters to the agencies to potentially be selected for one of these ten geographically focused roundtables. Each roundtable should include diverse perspectives and highlight the experience of individual participants with the definition of ``waters of the United States.'' The agencies intend to livestream each roundtable to make them available for public viewing.
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for September 2021
Document Number: 2021-23085
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
EPA is required under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to make information publicly available and to publish information in the Federal Register pertaining to submissions under TSCA Section 5, including notice of receipt of a Premanufacture notice (PMN), Significant New Use Notice (SNUN) or Microbial Commercial Activity Notice (MCAN), including an amended notice or test information; an exemption application (Biotech exemption); an application for a test marketing exemption (TME), both pending and/or concluded; a notice of commencement (NOC) of manufacture (including import) for new chemical substances; and a periodic status report on new chemical substances that are currently under EPA review or have recently concluded review. This document covers the period from 09/01/2021 to 09/30/2021.
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2021-23057
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticide Registration Review; Proposed Interim Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2021-23043
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the availability of EPA's proposed interim registration review decisions and opens a 60-day public comment period on the proposed interim decisions for the following pesticides: Chlormequat chloride; cycloate; famoxadone, inorganic chlorates, napropamide, nicarbazin, pyridalyl, and tetraconazole.
Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit
Document Number: 2021-23042
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
In accordance with the Clean Air Act, as amended (CAA or the Act), notice is given of a proposed consent decree in Our Children's Earth Foundation v. Regan, No. 20-cv-8530 (N.D. Cal.). On December 2, 2020 and July 9, 2021, Our Children's Earth Foundation filed a complaint and an amended complaint, respectively, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to compel the Administrator to assemble, publish, and publish notice of comprehensive documents setting forth the requirements of the state implementation plans (``SIPs'') for all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (collectively the ``States''). The proposed consent decree would establish deadlines for EPA to take specified actions.
Pesticide Registration Review; Interim Decisions and Case Closures for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability
Document Number: 2021-23041
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
This notice announces the availability of EPA's interim registration review decisions for the following chemicals: Amicarbazone; aminopyralid; azadirachtin, cold pressed neem oil and clarified hydrophobic neem oil; benzoic acid; endothall and salts; ethofumesate; fluoxastrobin; forchlorfenuron; gamma-cyhalothrin; inorganic halides; ipconazole; L-lactic acid; lambda-cyhalothrin; metam/MITC; metconazole; myclobutanil; novaluron; picloram; prometon; prothioconazole; and pyrasulfotole. In addition, it announces the closure of the registration review case for propazine.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; User Fees for the Administration of the Toxic Substances Control Act (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23025
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), User Fees for the Administration of the Toxic Substances Control Act (EPA ICR Number 2569.04, OMB Control Number 2070-0208) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through October 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on March 19, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; TSCA Mercury Inventory Reporting (Renewal)
Document Number: 2021-23020
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), TSCA Mercury Inventory Reporting (EPA ICR No. 2567.04, OMB Control No. 2070-0207) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through October 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on March 24, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.
Air Plan Approval; California; San Diego Air Pollution Control District
Document Number: 2021-22885
Type: Rule
Date: 2021-10-22
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve revisions to the San Diego Air Pollution Control District (SDAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from cold solvent cleaning and stripping operations, and from vapor degreasing operations. We are approving revisions to local rules that regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).
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