Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 16 Jan 2025 compliance, environmental protection, regulation, epa, business impact, ozone standards

🌍Regulatory Notice on 8-Hour Air Quality Standards and Business Impact

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Implementation of the 8-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone (EPA ICR Number 2347.05, OMB Control Number 2060-0695) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through January 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on August 15. 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

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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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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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Financial Assistance, Compliance, Grant Opportunities 16 Jan 2025 compliance, environmental protection, epa, financial assistance, grant opportunities, climate justice

🌱EPA's Climate Justice Grant Program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant Program: Post-Award Reporting (EPA ICR Number 7781.01, OMB Control Number 2035-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a request for approval of a new collection. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on August 6, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 16 Jan 2025 compliance, regulation, environmental, chemicals, epa, tsca, risk management, surveys

⚖️EPA Notice on TSCA Information Collection and Compliance Requirements

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), TSCA Existing Chemical Risk Evaluation and Management; Generic ICR for Surveys, (EPA ICR Number 2585.02 and OMB Control Number 2070-0218) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through February 28, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 15, 2024. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 16 Jan 2025 environmental protection, regulation, epa, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, hazardous waste, electric utilities, coal combustion residuals

♻️EPA Proposes Correction on Coal Combustion Residuals Regulations

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is proposing 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). This proposal seeks comment on issues discussed in a direct final rule to correct errors and clarify in the Legacy Final Rule.

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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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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 15 Jan 2025 compliance, regulations, epa, greenhouse gas emissions, sustainability

🌍EPA Seeks Comments on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report

The Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2023 report is available for public review. Sectoral chapters within the report and cross-cutting summary and trends chapters will be posted to the identified docket on a rolling basis between January 15 and February 13, 2025. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requests recommendations for improving the overall quality of the inventory report to be finalized in April 2025, as well as subsequent inventory reports.

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Compliance, Regulatory, Environmental 15 Jan 2025 epa, risk management, chemical regulation, toxic substances control act, dinp

⚠️EPA’s DINP Risk Evaluation

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing the availability of the final risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for diisononyl phthalate (DINP) (1,2-Benzene- dicarboxylic acid, 1,2- diisononyl ester) (CASRN 28553- 12-0). The purpose of risk evaluations under TSCA is to determine whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment under the conditions of use, including unreasonable risk to potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations identified as relevant to the risk evaluation by EPA, and without consideration of costs or non-risk factors. EPA used the best available science to prepare this final risk evaluation and determined, based on the weight of scientific evidence, that DINP poses unreasonable risk to human health. Under TSCA, EPA must initiate risk management actions to address the unreasonable risk.

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