Environmental Protection Agency June 24, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or "Agency") hereby announces its final cancellation order for the cancellations and amendments to terminate uses voluntarily requested by the registrants and accepted by the Agency, of the products in Table 1 and Table 2 of Unit II., pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This final cancellation order follows a June 9, 2023, Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Requests from the registrants in Table 3 of Unit II. to voluntarily cancel or amend these product registrations. In the June 9, 2023, notice, EPA indicated that it would issue a final cancellation order implementing the cancellations, unless the Agency received substantive comments within the comment period that would merit further review of these requests, or unless the registrants withdrew their requests. The Agency received five comments on the notice, which are summarized in Unit III.B. The registrants did not withdraw their requests for these voluntary cancellations and amendments. Accordingly, EPA hereby grants the requested cancellations and amendments to terminate uses as shown in this cancellation order. Any distribution, sale, or use of existing stocks of these products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order.

This notice announces the availability of EPA's proposed interim registration review decisions (PIDs) for the following pesticides: Dicrotophos and dimethoate. EPA is opening a 60-day public comment period for these PIDs.

In accordance with the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a September 11, 2023, State Implementation Plan (SIP) submittal from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), with information supplemented by a March 11, 2024, letter to EPA. This SIP submittal requests EPA approval of a revision to the monitoring and compliance requirements for certain process heater stacks at Safety-Kleen Oil Recovery Company in Lake County, Indiana. The submittal also requests EPA approval of a small language clarification and equipment listing revisions. Safety-Kleen is subject to emissions limits and monitoring and reporting requirements in the Indiana SIP for sulfur dioxide (SO2) located at title 326 of the Indiana Administrative Code (IAC).

The EPA is proposing amendments to several New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Specifically, the EPA is proposing to remove the affirmative defense provisions associated with violation of emission standards due to malfunctions. These provisions are being proposed for removal because the EPA finds that they are inconsistent with a D.C. Circuit Court decision that vacated affirmative defense provisions in one of the EPA's CAA regulations, and because the EPA finds that the reasoning in the decision applies equally to other CAA rules. Since the court decision, the EPA has been removing affirmative defense provisions from CAA rules when they were otherwise revised or amended. This action proposes to remove the remaining affirmative defense provisions more efficiently.