Environmental Protection Agency November 18, 2022 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is correcting a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on October 1, 2018, which became effective on October 31, 2018. The final rule approved State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Connecticut to address SIP revisions submitted to meet moderate area nonattainment requirements for the 2008 ozone standard. The SIP revisions are for the Greater Connecticut and the Connecticut portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT moderate ozone nonattainment areas, and include these areas 2011 base year emissions inventories, an emissions statement certification, reasonable further progress (RFP) demonstrations, reasonably available control measures (RACM) analyses, motor vehicle emissions budgets, and contingency measures. This correction does not change any final action taken by EPA on October 1, 2018; today's action merely corrects the Clean Air Act (CAA) citation for moderate area contingency measures. We have determined that there is good cause for making today's rule final without prior proposal and opportunity for comment because we are merely correcting an incorrect citation in a previous action. Thus, notice and public procedure are unnecessary.

On April 1, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that Washington's human health criteria (HHC) for certain pollutants were not protective of Washington's designated uses and were not based on sound scientific rationale and, accordingly, proposed to restore protective HHC for those pollutants in Washington's waters. EPA is finalizing protective and science-based Federal HHC in this final rule to protect Washington's waters, including waters where tribes hold treaty-reserved rights to fish.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of cyclaniliprole in or on multiple crops that are identified and discussed later in this document. Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).