Regulation, Compliance 16 Jan 2025 compliance, environmental protection, epa, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, environmental regulations, hazardous waste, waste management, electric utilities, coal combustion residuals

♻️Updated EPA Regulations on Coal Combustion Residuals Management

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is taking direct final action to correct errors and clarify several provisions published in the Federal Register on May 8, 2024. This May 8, 2024 rule (Legacy Final Rule) established regulatory requirements for legacy coal combustion residuals (CCR) surface impoundments and CCR management units, among other things, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 16 Jan 2025 compliance, environmental protection, epa, ozone, air pollution control, air quality, environmental regulations, ozone monitoring

🌍EPA Updates Ozone Measurement Calibration Requirements for 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is correcting a final rule published in the Federal Register on October 12, 2023, that became effective on November 13, 2023. The final rule updated the current ozone absorption cross-section to the recommended consensus- based value of 1.1329x10<SUP>-17</SUP> cm\2\ molecule<SUP>-1</SUP> or 304.39 atm<SUP>-1</SUP> cm<SUP>-1</SUP>. After publication, the EPA became aware of an error in the preamble text regarding the date for State, local, and Tribal monitoring agencies to complete implementation of the new ozone cross-section value, as well as a lack of clarity as to which entities the 2025 and 2026 implementation dates apply. With this action, the EPA is updating the final rule preamble and regulatory text to clarify the applicable implementation dates and the specific entities to which they apply. These corrections do not include any substantive changes to the final rule.

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Compliance, Environmental Regulations 16 Jan 2025 epa, environmental regulations, california, clean air act, tribal lands, gasoline dispensing

🏭EPA Approves Permit for Viejas Pit Stop Gas Station in California

This notice announces that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 9, issued an approval to the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians under the Clean Air Act's Tribal Minor New Source Review (NSR) Program. The EPA approved the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians' Request for Coverage under the General Air Quality Permit for New or Modified Minor Source Gasoline Dispensing Facilities in Indian Country within California for the Viejas Pit Stop. This approval authorizes the construction of the Viejas Pit Stop under the Tribal Minor NSR Program.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 16 Jan 2025 environmental protection, epa, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, intergovernmental relations, ozone, air pollution control, volatile organic compounds, air quality, nitrogen dioxide, environmental regulations, particulate matter, lead, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, montana, fuel standards, greenhouse gases

🌍Montana EPA Approves Change to Oxygenated Fuels Program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ or "the State"), on January 30, 2024, requesting to change the status of gasoline requirements (the "oxygenated fuels" or "oxyfuels" program) in the Missoula, Montana Carbon Monoxide (CO) Limited Maintenance Plan (LMP) from active control measure to a contingency measure. The SIP revision contains a non- interference demonstration under the Clean Air Act (CAA), which concludes that converting the oxygenated gasoline program from a control measure to a contingency measure in the Missoula CO LMP would not interfere with attainment or maintenance of the CO National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). The EPA is finalizing approval of Montana's SIP submittal pursuant the CAA.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 16 Jan 2025 compliance, epa, air quality, environmental regulations, waste management

♻️EPA Reopens Comment Period for Waste Combustor Regulation Updates

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the comment period on the proposed Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors Voluntary Remand Response and 5-Year Review. The original proposed rule was published on January 23, 2024, with a 60-day comment period closing March 25, 2024. With this notification, EPA is reopening the public comment period for an additional 6 months, from January 16, 2025, to July 16, 2025.

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Compliance Requirements, Regulatory Actions 16 Jan 2025 environmental protection, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, business compliance, intergovernmental relations, ozone, air pollution control, volatile organic compounds, air quality, environmental regulations, maricopa county, aerospace industry

🌎EPA Approves Air Quality Revisions in Maricopa County, Arizona

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve revisions to the Maricopa County Air Quality Department (MCAQD or "County") portions of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern the County's reasonably available control technology (RACT) demonstration for the aerospace coating category and negative declarations for the 2008 8- hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or "standards") in the portion of the Phoenix-Mesa ozone nonattainment area regulated by the MCAQD, as well as a rule covering emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from surface coatings and industrial adhesives. We are also approving a local rule that regulates these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or "the Act").

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Standards 15 Jan 2025 compliance, epa, environmental regulations, greenhouse gas emissions, power generation

🌍EPA Finalizes New Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for Power Plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice that it has responded to two petitions for reconsideration of the final action titled, "New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; and Repeal of the Affordable Clean Energy Rule", published in the Federal Register on May 9, 2024. The Administrator has denied or partially denied the requests for reconsideration in separate letters to the petitioners. The basis for the EPA's action is set out fully in the accompanying decision document, available in the rulemaking docket. At this time, the EPA is not addressing other grounds for reconsideration that have been raised by these or other petitioners.

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Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Standards 15 Jan 2025 compliance, epa, environmental regulations, water quality, perfluorinated substances

💧EPA Draft Water Quality Criteria Correction for PFAS Substances

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making a correction to a notice that appeared in the Federal Register on December 26, 2024. The notice of availability contained an incorrect value in Table 1, which is corrected below.

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Regulatory Compliance, Financial Impact 15 Jan 2025 environmental protection, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, incorporation by reference, intergovernmental relations, ozone, air pollution control, volatile organic compounds, air quality, nitrogen dioxide, environmental regulations, particulate matter, lead, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, emission fees, kansas, operating permits

🌍Kansas EPA Proposes New Emission Fees and Compliance Rules

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) and Operating Permits Program and the 112(l)plan submitted by the State of Kansas on February 20, 2023. The revised Kansas rules update the Class I emission fee and emissions inventory regulations, establish a Class II fee schedule and ensure that Kansas's Operating Permits Program is adequately funded. Approval of these revisions ensures consistency between the State and federally-approved rules and does not impact air quality.

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Environmental Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 15 Jan 2025 endangered species, transportation, imports, wildlife, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, environmental regulations, california, exports, endangered and threatened species, plants, critical habitat, longfin smelt

🐟Designation of Critical Habitat for Bay-Delta Longfin Smelt

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to designate critical habitat for the San Francisco Bay-Delta distinct population segment (DPS) of the longfin smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys), a fish species from the San Francisco Bay estuary in California, under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). In total, approximately 91,630 acres (37,082 hectares) in California fall within the boundaries of the proposed critical habitat designation. We also announce the availability of an economic analysis of the proposed designation of critical habitat for the species.

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