Environmental Protection Agency October 17, 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a state implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Virginia (Commonwealth or Virginia). This revision pertains to the Commonwealth's plan, submitted by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ), for maintaining the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) (referred to as the ``1997 ozone NAAQS'') in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News (Hampton Roads), VA Area (Hampton Roads Area). EPA is approving this revision to the Virginia SIP in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator signed an order dated September 18, 2023, on two petitions, each dated March 6, 2023, granting in part and denying in part a petition from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), the Clean Air Council (CAC), and Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) (the EIP Petition), and granting in full a separate petition from the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) (the GASP Petition). The petitions requested that the EPA object to a Clean Air Act (CAA) title V operating permit issued by the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) to the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant (U.S. Steel, Clairton) for its by-products coke plant located in Clairton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.