Environmental Protection Agency May 1, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with the Clean Air Act, as amended (CAA or the Act), notice is given of a proposed settlement agreement in Nevada Cement Co., LLC v. EPA et al. On April 14, 2023, Plaintiff Nevada Cement Company, LLC filed a petition for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Case No. 23-682. On June 5, 2023, Plaintiff filed a petition for review in the same court in Case No. 23-1098. Plaintiff disputes the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) disapproval of a state implementation plan submitted by the State of Nevada and promulgation of the final rule entitled "Federal `Good Neighbor Plan' for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards." The proposed settlement agreement would establish a process and deadlines by which Plaintiff would apply to EPA for a Case- by-Case Emissions Limit Request for its Fernley, Nevada, facility, in exchange for agreeing to lift a judicial stay entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is granting a treatment variance, requested by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in an August 1, 2023, petition, from the Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) treatment standards for approximately 2,000 gallons of mixed hazardous low-activity radioactive waste from DOE's Test Bed Initiative (TBI) for the Hanford Site in Washington State. The petition requested approval for DOE to treat the TBI waste to the LDR technology standard of stabilization (STABL) with verification of meeting LDR concentration-based and Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure- based standards as applicable for the relevant waste codes.