Department: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Years: 20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013[FR Doc 2013-07409] 1.Safe Drinking Water Act Sole Source Aquifer Program:
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 1424(e) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that the Bainbridge Island Aquifer System located in Kitsap County, Washington is the sole or principle source of drinking water for the citizens of Bainbridge Island and that
Published: 2013-03-29 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FR Doc 2013-07093] 2.Pesticide Tolerances:
This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of clothianidin in or on tea, dried and increases the tolerance level for pepper to support a shorter preharvest interval (PHI). These tolerances were requested by Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR4) and Valent U.S.A. Corporation, respectively, under the Federal Food, Drug, and
Published: 2013-03-29 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FR Doc 2013-07266] 3.Amendments to Compliance Certification Content Requirements for State and
The EPA proposes to amend the compliance certification requirements for state and federal operating permits programs that were published in the Federal Register on June 27, 2003. In that action, one sentence was removed from the rules in error. This action proposes to restore the sentence to its original location in the rules.
Published: 2013-03-29 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FR Doc 2013-07261] 4.Air Quality Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:
EPA is proposing to convert a conditional approval of specified provisions of the Ohio state implementation plan (SIP) to a full approval. Ohio submitted a request to approve a section of its particulate matter (PM) rules on February 23, 2012. The PM rule revisions being approved establish work practices for coating operations, add a section
Published: 2013-03-29 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY : ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FR Doc 2013-07373] 5.Notice of Availability
Weekly Receipt of Environmental Impact Statements
Filed 03/18/2013 Through 03/22/2013
Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.
Notice
Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act requires that EPA make public
its comments on EISs issued by other Federal agencies. EPA's comment
letters on EISs are available at: Published: 2013-03-29
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving State
Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Colorado
on June 20, 2003. The intended effect of this final rule is to approve
and make federally enforceable those portions of the revisions to
Colorado's Common Provisions that are consistent with the Clean Air Act
(CAA). Published: 2013-03-29
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The EPA Office of the Science Advisor announces a public
Webinar/teleconference of the Human Studies Review Board (HSRB) to
discuss its draft report on the HSRB meeting held January 17, 2013.
Published: 2013-03-28
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA is proposing to approve a revision to the South Coast
portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). This
revision concerns volatile organic compounds from organic liquid
storage. We are proposing to approve a local rule to regulate these
emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). Published: 2013-03-28
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
EPA is taking final action to withdraw its previous approvals
of state implementation plan revisions submitted by the State of
California to meet the vehiclemilestraveled emissions offset
requirement under the Clean Air Act for the Los AngelesSouth Coast Air
Basin 1hour and 8hour ozone nonattainment areas. EPA is also taking
final action to Published: 2013-03-28
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as
amended (``CAA'' or the ``Act''), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby
given of a proposed settlement agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by
Louisiana Environmental Action Network and Sierra Club in the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia: Louisiana
Environmental Published: 2013-03-28
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA issued direct final significant new use rules (SNURS) in
the Federal Register of December 20, 2012 for 9 chemical substances
which were the subject of premanufacture notices (PMNs). For the
chemical substance identified generically as aromatic sulfonic acid
amino azo dye salts (PMN P12276) a typographical error has been
identified. This Published: 2013-03-27
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY With this document, EPA is opening the public comment period
for several registration reviews. Registration review is EPA's periodic
review of pesticide registrations to ensure that each pesticide
continues to satisfy the statutory standard for registration, that is,
the pesticide can perform its intended function without unreasonable
adverse Published: 2013-03-27
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of
emamectin benzoate in or on the cucurbit vegetable crop group 9.
Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR4) requested this tolerance
under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).
Published: 2013-03-27
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency)
Office of External Affairs and Environmental Education (OEAEE) Staff
Office is soliciting applications for environmental education
professionals for consideration on the National Environmental Education
Advisory Council (NEEAC). There is one vacancy on the Advisory Council
that must be Published: 2013-03-27
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA issued a document in the Federal Register of September 30,
2009 (74 FR 50187) (FRL84377) concerning the cancellations and
amendments of pesticide products containing organic arsenicals. A
portion of the voluntary cancellation request giving rise to the 2009
document was conditioned upon the convening of a public scientific peer
review process Published: 2013-03-27
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA is announcing the availability of the final paper
describing enhanced opportunities for stakeholder input during its
review of pesticide registrations under the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and associated consultations
under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The paper was jointly prepared
by EPA, the U.S. Published: 2013-03-27
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Notice is hereby given that the EPA has tentatively approved
five revisions to the State of Michigan's public water system
supervision program. Michigan has revised several of its rules to
comply with the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, including
the Ground Water Rule, the Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection
Byproducts Rule, the Published: 2013-03-26
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA is granting reconsideration of the compliance date for the
Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) emission limits for oxides of
nitrogen (NO Published: 2013-03-26
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Due to the receipt of an adverse comment, EPA is withdrawing
the January 31, 2013, direct final rule approving a revision to the
Minnesota State Implementation Plan (SIP). EPA will address the comment
in a subsequent final action based upon the proposed rulemaking action,
also published on January 31, 2013. EPA will not institute a second
comment Published: 2013-03-26
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The EPA is announcing the reopening of the public comment
period for the EPA's responses to state and tribal designation
recommendations for the 2010 Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient Air
Quality Standard. The EPA sent the responses directly to the states and
tribes on or about February 7, 2013. On February 15, 2013, the EPA
published a notice of Published: 2013-03-25
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA is proposing to approve, as a revision of the California
state implementation plan, a request from the California Air Resources
Board to redesignate the San Diego County ozone nonattainment area to
attainment of the 1997 8hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality
Standard (1997 ozone standard) because the request meets the statutory
requirements Published: 2013-03-25
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Notice is hereby given for a 45-day public review and comment
period on the draft report of the National Rivers and Streams
Assessment 20082009 (NRSA). The NRSA draft report describes the
results of the nationwide probabilistic survey that was conducted in
the summers of 2008 and 2009. EPA and its state/tribal partners looked
at biological Published: 2013-03-25
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA is requesting comment on draft EPA guidance to auto
manufacturers for weighting the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a
flexible fuel vehicle operating on E85 with the GHG emissions of the
vehicle operating on conventional gasoline, when calculating the
compliance value to use for EPA's GHG emissions standards. EPA also
invites comment on the Published: 2013-03-22
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The EPA proposes to reissue the National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) for Oil and Gas Exploration Facilities in
Federal Waters of Cook Inlet (AKG 315000). As proposed, the permit
would authorize certain discharges of pollutants into Cook Inlet
Federal Waters from oil and gas exploration facilities subject to
limits and Published: 2013-03-22
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires any person
who intends to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) a new
chemical (i.e., a chemical not on the TSCA Chemical Substances
Inventory (TSCA Inventory)) to notify EPA and comply with the statutory
provisions pertaining to the manufacture of new chemicals. In addition
under TSCA, Published: 2013-03-22
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY :
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FR Doc
2013-07250] 6.Air Quality Implementation Plans; Approvals and Disapprovals and
[FR Doc
2013-07263] 7.Meetings:
[FR Doc
2013-06427] 8.State Implementation Plans:
[FR Doc
2013-06905] 9.Implementation Plan Revisions; Disapprovals:
[FR Doc
2013-07262] 10.Clean Air Act Citizen Suit
[FR Doc
2013-07083] 11.Technical Amendment
[FR Doc
2013-07076] 12.Registration Reviews:
[FR Doc
2013-06758] 13.Pesticide Tolerances:
[FR Doc
2013-07089] 14.Requests for Nominations:
[FR Doc
2013-07074] 15.Use Terminations and Existing Stocks Provisions; Amendments:
[FR Doc
2013-06920] 16.Notice of Availability
[FR Doc
2013-06895] 17.Public Water System Supervision Program Approval for the State of Michigan
[FR Doc
2013-06756] 18.Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans:
[FR Doc
2013-06652] 19.Air Quality Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations:
[FR Doc
2013-06649] 20.Notice of Availability and Public Comment Period
[FR Doc
2013-06767] 21.Implementation Plans and Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes;
[FR Doc
2013-06753] 22.009 Draft Report
[FR Doc
2013-06657] 23.Draft Guidance for Industry and Staff:
[FR Doc
2013-06669] 24.National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permits:
[FR Doc
2013-06684] 25.Receipt and Status Information