Environmental Protection Agency December 9, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is determining that the Northern Wasatch Front, UT area failed to attain the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) by the applicable attainment date. The effect of failing to attain by the applicable attainment date is that the area will be reclassified by operation of law to "Serious" nonattainment for the 2015 ozone NAAQS on, the effective date of this final rule. This action fulfills the EPA's obligation under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to determine whether ozone nonattainment areas attained the NAAQS by the Moderate area attainment date and to publish a document in the Federal Register identifying each area that is determined as having failed to attain and identifying the reclassification.

In accordance with the Prospective Purchaser Agreement, notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement concerning the property to be used in the Brandon Road Interbasin Project with the following Settling Party: Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The Settling Party intends to acquire title to an approximately 2.32-acre portion of the property at 1800 Channahon Road, Joliet, Illinois, which is adjacent to the Joliet 29 Generating Station and borders the Brandon Road Lock and Dam.

Pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA or Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the State of Nebraska's Underground Storage Tank (UST) program submitted by the Nebraska State Marshal (NSFM). This action also codifies EPA's approval of Nebraska's State program and incorporates by reference those provisions of the State regulations that we have determined meet the requirements for approval. The provisions will be subject to EPA's inspection and enforcement authorities under the RCRA and other applicable statutory and regulatory provisions.