Sample records for implementing epa standards
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Are EPA's proposed revisions to the PM standards appropriate?
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Lucinda Minton Langworthy
2006-06-15
In 1997 then-US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Carol Browner adopted new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Browner recognized that 'there is uncertainty in the characterization of health effects attributable to exposure to ambient PM.' As a result, President Clinton promised to review the scientific basis for those standards prior to their implementation. Recently, before EPA has even promulgated rules concerning implementation of those standards, the agency proposed to revise those standards to make them significantly more stringent. Are the proposed revisions to the standards appropriate? The author argues. 41 refs.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-23
... 10, Nitrogen oxides, approved by EPA May 31, 1972 (37 FR 10842). WAQSR, Section 4, Sulfur oxides..., approved by EPA on May 31, 1972 (37 FR 10842). WAQSR, Section 4, Sulfur oxides, approved by EPA June 10... standards for nitrogen oxides; Section 4, Emission standard for sulfur oxides; Section 5, Emission standards...
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Regulatory basis for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant performance assessment
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
HOWARD,BRYAN A.; CRAWFORD,M.B.; GALSON,D.A.
2000-05-22
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the first operational repository designed for the safe disposal of transuranic (TRU) radioactive waste from the defense programs of the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for certifications and regulation of the WIPP facility for the radioactive components of the waste. The EPA has promulgated general radioactive waste disposal standards at 40 CFR Part 191. and WIPP-specific criteria to implement and interpret the generic disposal standards at 40 CFR Part 194. In October 1996. the DOE submitted its Compliance Certification Application (CCA) to the EPA tomore » demonstrate compliance with the disposal standards at Subparts B and C of 40 CFR Part 191. This paper summarizes the development of the overall legal framework for radioactive waste disposal at the WIPP, the parallel development of the WIPP performance assessment (PA), and how the EPA disposal standards and implementing criteria formed the basis for the CCA WIPP PA. The CCA resulted in a certification in May 1998 by the EPA of the WIPP'S compliance with the EPA's disposal standard, thus enabling the WIPP to begin radioactive waste disposal.« less
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On November 29, 2017 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that three states failed to submit timely state implementation plan (SIP) revisions necessary to satisfy certain Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA requirements for implementing the 2008 oz
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Report: EPA Data Standards Plan Completed But Additional Steps Are Needed
Report #12-P-0519, June 5, 2012. The actions taken by EPA were either incomplete or lacked steps to help management determine the overall effectiveness of the Agency’s implementation of data standards.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-12
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Revisions to Emissions Inventory Reporting.... SUMMARY: The EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the New Mexico State Implementation Plan (SIP... Quality Standards that EPA has established for criteria pollutants such as ozone, particulate matter, and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-24
...] Implementation of the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: State Implementation Plan... Rule Regarding ``Implementation of the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: State... ground-level ozone formation. B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for the EPA? 1...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-02
... Flat Wood Paneling Surface Coating Processes AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... by EPA's Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) standards for flat wood paneling surface coating processes. EPA is approving this revision concerning the adoption of the EPA CTG requirements for flat wood...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-26
...EPA is proposing to approve the State of Ohio's request to redesignate the Dayton-Springfield nonattainment area (Dayton) to attainment for the 1997 annual National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standard) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). EPA is also proposing to approve the related elements including emissions inventories, maintenance plans, and the accompanying motor vehicle budgets. EPA is proposing to approve a comprehensive emissions inventory that meets the Clean Air Act (CAA) requirement. EPA is proposing that the inventories for nitrogen oxides (NOX), direct PM2.5, sulfur dioxide (SO2), ammonia, and volatile organic compounds (VOC) meet the CAA emissions inventory requirement. In the course of proposing to approve Ohio's request to redesignate the Dayton area, EPA addresses a number of additional issues, including the effects of two decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit or Court): (1) The Court's August 21, 2012, decision to vacate and remand to EPA the Cross-State Air Pollution Control Rule (CSAPR) and (2) the Court's January 4, 2013, decision to remand to EPA two final rules implementing the 1997 PM2.5 standard.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-27
...EPA is approving into the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) an adjusted standard for Royal Fiberglass Pools (``Royal'') at its Dix, Illinois facility. On November 8, 2010, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) submitted to EPA for approval an adjustment to the general rule, Use of Organic Material Rule, commonly known as the eight pound per hour (8 lb/hr) rule, as it applies to emissions of volatile organic matter (VOM) from Royal's pool manufacturing facility. The adjusted standard relieves Royal from being subject to the general rule for VOM emissions from its Dix facility. EPA is approving this SIP revision because it will not interfere with attainment or maintenance of the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-11
... and emissions input data preparation, model performance evaluation, interpreting modeling results, and... standard based on ambient ozone monitoring data for the 2006- 2008 period. EPA has not yet acted on this... ppm) and years thereafter were at or below the standard. See EPA Air Quality System (AQS) data...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-09
... Promulgation of State Implementation Plans: Alaska; Fairbanks Carbon Monoxide Limited Maintenance Plan AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: The EPA is proposing to approve a carbon... carbon monoxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards through the second 10- year maintenance period...
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77 FR 9529 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-17
... pollution control, Environmental protection, Incorporation by reference, Lead, Reporting and recordkeeping... Implementation Plan (SIP) and control strategy for the lead National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS... in this action is the lead NAAQS promulgated by EPA in 1978. EPA has determined that both SIP...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-15
...EPA is taking final action to disapprove submittals from the State of Texas, through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), to revise the Texas Major and Minor NSR SIP. We are disapproving the submittals because they do not meet the 2002 revised Major NSR SIP requirements. We are also disapproving the submittals as not meeting the Major Nonattainment NSR SIP requirements for implementation of the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) and the 1-hour ozone NAAQS. EPA is disapproving the submitted Standard Permit (SP) for Pollution Control Projects (PCP) because it does not meet the requirements of the CAA for a minor NSR Standard Permit program. Finally, EPA is also disapproving a submitted severable definition of best available control technology (BACT) that is used by TCEQ in its Minor NSR SIP permitting program. EPA is not addressing the submitted revisions concerning the Texas Major PSD NSR SIP, which will be addressed in a separate action. EPA is taking no action on severable provisions that implement section 112(g) of the Act and is restoring a clarification to an earlier action that removed an explanation that a particular provision is not in the SIP because it implements section 112(g) of the Act. EPA is not addressing severable revisions to definitions submitted June 10, 2005, submittal, which will be addressed in a separate action. We are taking no action on a severable provision relating to Emergency and Temporary Orders, which we will address in a separate action. EPA is taking these actions under section 110, part C, and part D, of the Federal Clean Air Act (the Act or CAA).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-25
... the area is currently attaining the eight-hour standard is finalized, 40 CFR 51.918 \\1\\ of EPA's ozone... CFR 51.905(e)(2)(i)(B). EPA's proposed determination that the area failed to attain the one-hour ozone... standard. For areas that attain the standard, section 51.918 of the implementation rule provides that, upon...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-22
... Ambient Air Quality Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY... the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) promulgated for ozone on July 18, 1997. EPA finds... measuring and monitoring ozone in ambient air, a general definition of ozone, federal Prevention of...
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USEPA ARSENIC REMOVAL FULL-SCALE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
On October 31, 2001 EPA announced that the final standard for arsenic in drinking water of ten parts per billion (10 ppb) would become effective on February 22, 2002 without any further action by EPA. This means that the standard will be implemented as specified in the January 22...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-27
...EPA is proposing to approve into the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) an adjusted standard for Royal Fiberglass Pools (``Royal'') at its Dix, Illinois facility. On November 8, 2010, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) submitted to EPA for approval an adjustment to the general rule, Use of Organic Material Rule, commonly known as the eight pound per hour (8 lb/hr) rule, as it applies to emissions of volatile organic matter (VOM) from Royal's pool manufacturing facility. The adjusted standard relieves Royal from being subject to the general rule for VOM emissions from its Dix facility. EPA is approving this SIP revision because it will not interfere with attainment or maintenance of the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-09
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Louisiana; Baton Rouge 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area; Determination of Attainment of the 8-Hour Ozone Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The EPA has determined that the Baton Rouge (BR) moderate 8- hour ozone...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-03
... for the 2008 Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... (CAA) section 110(a)(2) necessary to implement, maintain, and enforce the 2008 lead national ambient... On October 15, 2008, EPA substantially strengthened the primary and secondary lead NAAQS (hereafter...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-16
... update the Georgia SIP to reflect EPA's current national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for sulfur...'s rules identifying the current NAAQS table for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, lead and... separate action. II. Analysis of the State's Submittal a. Sulfur Dioxide On June 22, 2010, EPA revised the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-17
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R10-OAR-2011-0724, FRL-9676-6] Approval and... Ambient Air Quality Standard; Prevention of Significant Deterioration Greenhouse Gas Permitting Authority and Tailoring Rule AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-14
... Flat Wood Paneling Surface Coating Processes AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... sources covered by EPA's Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) standards for flat wood paneling surface... Protection (PADEP) submitted to EPA a SIP revision concerning the adoption of the CTG for flat wood paneling...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-22
... Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Alaska: Infrastructure Requirements for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National... the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) promulgated for ozone on July 18, 1997. EPA is...-hour ozone NAAQS: (A), (B), (C), (D)(ii), (E), (F), (G), (H), (J), (K), (L), and (M). EPA is proposing...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-21
... Facilities Cooling Water Intake Structures: Instrument, Pre-test, and Implementation (New). ICR numbers: EPA... test for and ameliorate survey non-response bias. EPA will follow standard practice in stated...
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78 FR 64430 - Partial Approval and Disapproval of Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Nevada...
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-10-29
... contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send email directly to EPA.... Accordingly, it affords no opportunity for EPA to fashion for small entities less burdensome compliance or... voluntary consensus standards bodies. NTTAA directs EPA to provide Congress, through OMB, explanations when...
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EPA and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) share responsibility for prevention: OSHA has the Process Safety Management Standard to protect workers, and EPA the Risk Management Program to protect the general public and environment.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-24
... Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NH DES) submitted a SIP revision to EPA that contained... 8-hour CO standard. On August 1, 2012, the NH DES submitted a limited maintenance plan SIP revision... DES's SIP revision uses EPA's limited maintenance plan approach, as detailed in the EPA guidance...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-26
...EPA is issuing a supplement to its proposed approval of Ohio's request to redesignate the Ohio portion of the Parkersburg-Marietta, West Virginia-Ohio, area to attainment for the 1997 annual National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standard) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). This supplemental proposal revises and expands the basis for proposing approval of the state's request, in light of developments since EPA issued its initial proposal on November 30, 2012. This supplemental proposal addresses the effects of a January 4, 2013, decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit or Court) to remand to EPA two final rules implementing the 1997 PM2.5 standard. In this supplemental proposal, EPA is also proposing to approve a supplement to the emission inventories previously submitted by Ohio. EPA is proposing that the inventories for ammonia and volatile organic compounds (VOC), in conjunction with the inventories for nitrogen oxides (NOX), direct PM2.5, and sulfur dioxide (SO2) that EPA previously proposed to approve, meet the comprehensive emissions inventory requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act). EPA is seeking comment only on the issues raised in its supplemental proposal, and is not re-opening for comment other issues raised in its prior proposal.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-10-25
...] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Revised Ambient Air Quality... State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions add ambient air quality standards and associated... Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for PM 2.5 . EPA is approving these revisions in accordance with the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-23
... moderate 8-hour ozone nonattainment area? In 1997, EPA revised the health-based NAAQS for ozone, setting it... standard based on scientific evidence demonstrating that ozone causes adverse health effects at lower ozone... was set. EPA determined that the 1997 8-hour standard would be more protective of human health...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-22
...EPA is disapproving a portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision received from the State of New Mexico on September 17, 2007, for the purpose of addressing the ``good neighbor'' requirements of section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) for the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standards) and the 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS. In this action, EPA is disapproving the New Mexico Interstate Transport SIP provisions that address the requirement of section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) that emissions from New Mexico sources do not interfere with measures required in the SIP of any other state under part C of the CAA to protect visibility. We have found that New Mexico sources, except the San Juan Generating Station, are sufficiently controlled to eliminate interference with the visibility programs of other states. EPA is promulgating a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) to address this deficiency by implementing nitrogen oxides (NOX) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission limits necessary at the San Juan Generating Station (SJGS), to prevent such interference. EPA found in January 2009 that New Mexico had failed to submit a SIP addressing certain regional haze (RH) requirements, including the requirement for best available retrofit technology (BART). The Clean Air Act required EPA to promulgate a FIP to address RH requirements by January 2011. This FIP addresses the RH BART requirement for NOX for SJGS. In addition, EPA is implementing sulfuric acid (H2SO4) hourly emission limits at the SJGS, to minimize the contribution of this compound to visibility impairment. This action is being taken under section 110 and part C of the CAA.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-26
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Ohio; Particulate Matter Standards AGENCY: Environmental... in Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) Chapter 3745-17, ``Particulate Matter Standards.'' The revisions were submitted by Ohio EPA to satisfy the State's 5-year review requirements. The particulate matter...
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Water Quality Standards Handbook
The Water Quality Standards Handbook is a compilation of the EPA's water quality standards (WQS) program guidance including recommendations for states, authorized tribes, and territories in reviewing, revising, and implementing WQS.
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RESIDUAL RISK ASSESSMENT: MAGNETIC TAPE ...
This document describes the residual risk assessment for the Magnetic Tape Manufacturing source category. For stationary sources, section 112 (f) of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to assess risks to human health and the environment following implementation of technology-based control standards. If these technology-based control standards do not provide an ample margin of safety, then EPA is required to promulgate addtional standards. This document describes the methodology and results of the residual risk assessment performed for the Magnetic Tape Manufacturing source category. The results of this analyiss will assist EPA in determining whether a residual risk rule for this source category is appropriate.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-20
... EPA to fashion for small entities less burdensome compliance or reporting requirements or timetables... adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies. NTTAA directs EPA to provide Congress, through the Office...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-27
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 50, 51, 70 and 71 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0885, FRL-9810-3] RIN 2060-AR34 Implementation of the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: State Implementation Plan Requirements Correction In proposed rule document 2013-13233 appearing on pages 34178 through...
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Use of benefit-cost analysis in establishing Federal radiation protection standards: a review
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Erickson, L.E.
1979-10-01
This paper complements other work which has evaluated the cost impacts of radiation standards on the nuclear industry. It focuses on the approaches to valuation of the health and safety benefits of radiation standards and the actual and appropriate processes of benefit-cost comparison. A brief historical review of the rationale(s) for the levels of radiation standards prior to 1970 is given. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established numerical design objectives for light water reactors (LWRs). The process of establishing these numerical design criteria below the radiation protection standards set in 10 CFR 20 is reviewed. EPA's 40 CFR 190 environmentalmore » standards for the uranium fuel cycle have lower values than NRC's radiation protection standards in 10 CFR 20. The task of allocating EPA's 40 CFR 190 standards to the various portions of the fuel cycle was left to the implementing agency, NRC. So whether or not EPA's standards for the uranium fuel cycle are more stringent for LWRs than NRC's numerical design objectives depends on how EPA's standards are implemented by NRC. In setting the numerical levels in Appendix I to 10 CFR 50 and 40 CFR 190 NRC and EPA, respectively, focused on the costs of compliance with various levels of radiation control. A major portion of the paper is devoted to a review and critique of the available methods for valuing health and safety benefits. All current approaches try to estimate a constant value of life and use this to vaue the expected number of lives saved. This paper argues that it is more appropriate to seek a value of a reduction in risks to health and life that varies with the extent of these risks. Additional research to do this is recommended. (DC)« less
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Factsheet -- EPA’s Rule to Implement the Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act
This factsheet explains EPA's final rule to implement the Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act and reduce exposure to formaldehyde vapors from certain wood products produced domestically or imported into the United States.
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Notification: Review of EPA’s Implementation of Benzene Fuel Content Standards
Project #OPE-FY15-0051, September 11, 2015. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to begin preliminary research on the EPA’s implementation of benzene fuel content standards.
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Infrastructure State Implementation Plan (SIP) Requirements and Guidance
The Clean Air Act requires states to submit SIPs that implement, maintain, and enforce a new or revised national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) within 3 years of EPA issuing the standard. The Infrastructure SIP is required for all states.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-23
... (CT); EPA-R01-OAR- 2011-0318 and EPA-R01-OAR-2011-0322 (ME); EPA-R01-OAR-2009-0459 and EPA-R01-OAR... of Energy and Environmental Protection, State Office Building, 79 Elm Street, Hartford, CT 06106-1630... (denoted PM 2.5 ). The annual PM 2.5 standard was set at 15 micrograms per cubic meter ([micro]g/m\\3...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-20
...EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Kansas on July 27, 2010, to add two new rules which implement restrictions on the idling of heavy duty diesel vehicles and reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions at stationary sources in the Kansas portion of the Kansas City Maintenance Area for ozone. EPA is approving this revision because the standards and requirements set by the rules will strengthen the Kansas SIP. EPA's approval of this SIP revision is being done in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-08
... No. 2236.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0594 AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice... Standard Implementation Rule. ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2236.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0594. ICR status: This...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-09
... Oxygen Furnaces AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA... basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs) at steel mills with a new CO standard for BOFs at steel mills. In the Final...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-24
...EPA is proposing to approve, as a revision of the California state implementation plan, the State's request to redesignate the Sacramento nonattainment area to attainment for the 24-hour particulate matter of ten microns or less (PM10) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). EPA is also proposing to approve the PM10 maintenance plan and the associated motor vehicle emissions budgets for use in transportation conformity determinations necessary for the Sacramento area. Finally, EPA is proposing to approve the attainment year emissions inventory. EPA is proposing these actions because the SIP revision meets the requirements of the Clean Air Act and EPA guidance for such plans and motor vehicle emissions budgets.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-01
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; Lead Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY... Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP) for lead (Pb) under the Clean Air Act (CAA). This submittal incorporates the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Pb promulgated by EPA in 2008. DATES...
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76 FR 38747 - Review of New Sources and Modifications in Indian Country
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-01
...The EPA is finalizing a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) under the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) for Indian country. The FIP includes two New Source Review (NSR) regulations for the protection of air resources in Indian country. The first rule applies to new and modified minor stationary sources (minor sources) and to minor modifications at existing major stationary sources (major sources) throughout Indian country. The second rule (nonattainment major NSR rule) applies to new and modified major sources in areas of Indian country that are designated as not attaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). These rules will be implemented by EPA or a delegate Tribal agency assisting EPA with administration of the rules, until replaced by an EPA-approved implementation plan.
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Project #OPE-FY17-0008, Feb 9, 2017.The EPA OIG plans to begin research to evaluate EPA’s management controls implementing the revised Worker Protection Standards (WPS) requirements to reduce pesticide exposure and risks to agricultural workers.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-10-25
...] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Infrastructure Requirements for the 2010 Nitrogen Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection... ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). EPA is approving this SIP revision in accordance with the...
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RESIDUAL RISK ASSESSMENT: ETHYLENE OXIDE ...
This document describes the residual risk assessment for the Ethylene Oxide Commercial Sterilization source category. For stationary sources, section 112 (f) of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to assess risks to human health and the environment following implementation of technology-based control standards. If these technology-based control standards do not provide an ample margin of safety, then EPA is required to promulgate addtional standards. This document describes the methodology and results of the residual risk assessment performed for the Ethylene Oxide Commercial Sterilization source category. The results of this analyiss will assist EPA in determining whether a residual risk rule for this source category is appropriate.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-08
...EPA is issuing a supplement to its proposed approval of the State of Indiana's request to redesignate the Indianapolis area to attainment for the 1997 annual National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standard) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). This supplemental proposal revises and expands the basis for proposing approval of the state's request, in light of developments since EPA issued its initial proposal on September 27, 2011. This supplemental proposal addresses four issues, including the effects of two decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit or Court): the Court's August 21, 2012 decision to vacate and remand to EPA the Cross- State Air Pollution Control Rule (CSAPR) and the Court's January 4, 2013 decision to remand to EPA two final rules implementing the 1997 PM2.5 standard. In this supplemental proposal, EPA is also proposing to approve a supplement to the emission inventories previously submitted by the state. EPA is proposing that the inventories for ammonia and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), in conjunction with the inventories for nitrogen oxides (NOX), direct PM2.5, and sulfur dioxide (SO2) that EPA previously proposed to approve, meet the comprehensive emissions inventory requirement of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Finally, this supplemental proposal solicits comment on the state's January 17, 2013 submission of Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets (MVEBs) developed using EPA's Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator (MOVES) 2010a emissions model to replace the MOBILE6.2 based MVEBs previously submitted as part of the PM2.5 maintenance plan for the Indianapolis area. EPA is seeking comment only on the issues raised in its supplemental proposal, and is not re-opening for comment other issues raised in its prior proposal.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-20
...EPA is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the Kansas State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Kansas on July 27, 2010. The revision includes two new rules which implement restrictions on the idling of heavy duty diesel vehicles and reduce nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions at stationary sources in the Kansas portion of the Kansas City Maintenance Area for ozone. EPA is approving this revision because the standards and requirements set by the rules will strengthen the Kansas SIP. EPA's approval of this SIP revision is being done in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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40 CFR 52.2119 - Identification of plan-conditional approval.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) South Carolina § 52.2119 Identification of plan-conditional approval. EPA is conditionally approving a revision to the South Carolina State Implementation Plan (SIP) consisting of a new Standard (South Carolina Regulation 61-62.5 Standard...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-30
...] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Infrastructure Requirements for the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) are promulgated, the CAA requires states to submit a plan for the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-13
...EPA is taking final action to approve the December 13, 2007, submission by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, through the Kentucky Division of Air Quality (KDAQ) as demonstrating that the Commonwealth meets the state implementation plan (SIP) requirements of sections 110(a)(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act) for the 1997 8- hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Section 110(a) of the CAA requires that each state adopt and submit a SIP for the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of each NAAQS promulgated by the EPA, which is commonly referred to as an ``infrastructure'' SIP. Kentucky certified that the Kentucky SIP contains provisions that ensure the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS is implemented, enforced, and maintained in Kentucky (hereafter referred to as ``infrastructure submission''). Kentucky's infrastructure submission, provided to EPA on December 13, 2007, addressed all the required infrastructure elements for the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS. Additionally, EPA is responding to adverse comments received on EPA's March 17, 2011, proposed approval of Kentucky's December 13, 2007, infrastructure submission.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-13
...EPA is taking final action to approve the December 10, 2007, submission by the State of Alabama, through the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) as demonstrating that the State meets the state implementation plan (SIP) requirements of sections 110(a)(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act) for the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Section 110(a) of the CAA requires that each state adopt and submit a SIP for the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of each NAAQS promulgated by the EPA, which is commonly referred to as an ``infrastructure'' SIP. Alabama certified that the Alabama SIP contains provisions that ensure the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS is implemented, enforced, and maintained in Alabama (hereafter referred to as ``infrastructure submission''). Alabama's infrastructure submission, provided to EPA on December 10, 2007, addressed all the required infrastructure elements for the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS. Additionally, EPA is responding to adverse comments received on EPA's March 17, 2011, proposed approval of Alabama's December 10, 2007, infrastructure submission.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-13
...EPA is taking final action to approve the December 7, 2007, submission by the State of Mississippi, through the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) as demonstrating that the State meets the implementation plan (SIP) requirements of sections 110(a)(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act) for the 1997 8- hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Section 110(a) of the CAA requires that each state adopt and submit a SIP for the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of each NAAQS promulgated by the EPA, which is commonly referred to as an ``infrastructure'' SIP. Mississippi certified that the Mississippi SIP contains provisions that ensure the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS is implemented, enforced, and maintained in Mississippi (hereafter referred to as ``infrastructure submission''). Mississippi's infrastructure submission, provided to EPA on December 7, 2007, addressed all the required infrastructure elements for the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS. Additionally, EPA is responding to adverse comments received on EPA's March 17, 2011, proposed approval of Mississippi's December 7, 2007, infrastructure submission.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-27
... Quality Standard Implementation Rule (Renewal), EPA ICR No. 2236.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0594 AGENCY...: EPA ICR No. 2236.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0594. ICR status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on July 31...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-01-29
...Under section 110(k)(6) of the Clean Air Act, EPA is proposing to correct our May 2004 final approval of revisions to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District portion of the California State Implementation Plan. EPA is also proposing to take action on three amended District rules, one of which was submitted on March 7, 2008 and the other two of which were submitted on March 17, 2009. Two of the submitted rules reflect revisions to approved District rules that provide for review of new and modified stationary sources (``new source review'' or NSR) within the District, and the third reflects revisions to an approved District rule that provides a mechanism by which existing stationary sources may be exempt from the requirement to secure a Federally-mandated operating permit. The NSR rule revisions relate to exemptions from permitting and from offsets for certain agricultural operations, to the establishment of NSR applicability and offset thresholds consistent with a classification of ``extreme'' nonattainment for the ozone standard, and to the implementation of EPA's NSR Reform Rules. With respect to the revised District NSR rules, EPA is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval because, although the changes would strengthen the SIP, there are deficiencies in enforceability that prevent full approval. With respect to the operating permit rule, EPA is proposing a full approval. Lastly, EPA is proposing to rescind certain obsolete permitting requirements from the District portion of the California plan. If EPA were to finalize the limited approval and limited disapproval action, as proposed, then a sanctions clock, and EPA's obligation to promulgate a Federal implementation plan, would be triggered because certain revisions to the District rules that are the subject of this action are required under anti-backsliding principles established for the transition from the 1-hour to the 8-hour ozone standard.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-14
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Reasonably Available Control Technology for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... available control technology (RACT) for the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS...
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Characterization of cotton gin particulate matter emissions – project plan
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
In 2006, EPA implemented a more stringent standard for particulate matter with an effective diameter less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5). The implementation timeline for this standard will vary by state/district regulatory agency. For example, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, has pro...
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Characterization of cotton gin particulate matter emissions - project plan
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
In 2006, EPA implemented a more stringent standard for particulate matter with an effective diameter less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5). The implementation time line for this standard will vary by state/district regulatory agency. For example, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has pro...
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EPA has initiated a process to revise certain requirements in the WPS. By the end of FY2018, EPA expects to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to solicit public input on proposed revisions to the WPS requirements for minimum ages, designated represen
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. To assess the ambient concentration levels of the six criteria air pollutants regulated by National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed a systematic framework of: (a) field measurements of ambient air pollutant levels ...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-28
...EPA is proposing to approve a state implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of California to address Clean Air Act nonattainment area contingency measure requirements for the 1997 annual and 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards in the San Joaquin Valley. Final approval of this SIP revision would terminate the sanctions clocks and a federal implementation plan clock that were triggered by EPA's partial disapproval of a related SIP submission on November 9, 2011 (76 FR 69896).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-19
... Philadelphia Department of Public Health's Air Management Services AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... Department of Public Health's Air Management Services (AMS) a letter acknowledging that AMS's delegation of... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has previously delegated to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-29
... limits, and the processing of pollution prevention projects as minor permit revisions. EPA proposed to... standard. EPA is disapproving the third incentive, which affects public notice requirements for pollution prevention projects, because it relaxes the existing SIP-approved public notice requirements and is...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-30
... (BRNA or BR), revisions to the Louisiana SIP that meet the Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT... show that the area continues to attain the 1997 8-hour ozone standard. EPA also determined that the BR... expressed overall support for EPA's [[Page 74001
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-19
... National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Indiana PSD; Indiana State Board Requirements AGENCY: Environmental... from Indiana addressing EPA's requirements for the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD... (PSD elements), or EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0988 (state board requirements), by one of the following methods: 1...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-03
... tribal law. List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 Environmental protection, Air pollution control, lead... the 2008 Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA..., necessary to implement, maintain, and enforce the 2008 lead national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-14
...-9811-6] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... amend the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for NO 2 and SO 2 to be consistent with the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-01
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; Lead Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY... incorporates the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Pb promulgated by EPA in 2008. DATES: This... FR 66964) and codified at 40 CFR 50.16, ``National primary and secondary ambient air quality...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-31
...EPA is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval of a State Implementation Plan (``SIP'') revision submitted by the State of California on November 17, 2007, for the purpose of addressing the ``transport SIP'' provisions of Clean Air Act (``CAA'') section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) for the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standards) and the 1997 fine particulate matter (``PM2.5'') NAAQS. Section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) of the CAA requires that each SIP contain adequate provisions to prohibit emissions that adversely affect air quality in other States through interstate transport. EPA is proposing a limited approval and limited disapproval of California's SIP revision for the 1997 8-hour ozone and 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS with respect to the requirement in CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) that each SIP contain adequate measures prohibiting emissions of air pollutants in amounts which will interfere with other States' measures required under title I, part C of the CAA to prevent significant deterioration of air quality. Specifically, EPA is proposing to approve California's SIP revision with respect to those Districts in California that implement SIP-approved permit programs meeting the approval criteria under CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i), as discussed in this proposal. EPA is simultaneously proposing to disapprove California's SIP revision with respect to those Districts in California that do not implement SIP-approved permit programs meeting these approval criteria. For any District for which we finalize a disapproval, EPA intends to simultaneously promulgate a limited Federal Implementation Plan (``FIP''), as discussed in this proposal, unless the relevant area is already subject to a FIP.
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The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six criteria pollutants (lead, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides, ozone, and particulate matter). After setting NAAQS, there are several activities required to implement the st...
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76 FR 41111 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; South Carolina; 110(a)(1) and (2...
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-13
...EPA is taking final action to approve the December 13, 2007, submission submitted by the State of South Carolina, through the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) as demonstrating that the State meets the state implementation plan (SIP) requirements of sections 110(a)(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act) for the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Section 110(a) of the CAA requires that each state adopt and submit a SIP for the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of each NAAQS promulgated by the EPA, which is commonly referred to as an ``infrastructure'' SIP. South Carolina certified that the South Carolina SIP contains provisions that ensure the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS is implemented, enforced, and maintained in South Carolina (hereafter referred to as ``infrastructure submission''). South Carolina's infrastructure submission, provided to EPA on December 13, 2007, addressed all the required infrastructure elements for the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS. Additionally, EPA is correcting an inadvertent error and responding to adverse comments received on EPA's March 17, 2011, proposed approval of South Carolina's December 13, 2007, infrastructure submission.
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40 CFR 63.1114 - Implementation and enforcement.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
....1114 Section 63.1114 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS... Control Technology Standards § 63.1114 Implementation and enforcement. (a) This subpart can be implemented and enforced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or a delegated authority such as the...
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Positive Matrix Factorization Model for environmental data analyses
Positive Matrix Factorization is a receptor model developed by EPA to provide scientific support for current ambient air quality standards and implement those standards by identifying and quantifying the relative contributions of air pollution sources.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-12
...On August 16, 2012, the EPA published final new source performance standards for the oil and natural gas sector. The Administrator received petitions for reconsideration of certain aspects of the standards. In this notice, the EPA is announcing proposed amendments as a result of reconsideration of certain issues related to implementation of storage vessel provisions. The proposed amendments also correct technical errors that were inadvertently included in the final rule.
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40 CFR 131.13 - General policies.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... STANDARDS Establishment of Water Quality Standards § 131.13 General policies. States may, at their discretion, include in their State standards, policies generally affecting their application and implementation, such as mixing zones, low flows and variances. Such policies are subject to EPA review and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-22
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R08-OAR-2010-0301; FRL-9441-6] Approval and... National Ambient Air Quality Standards; South Dakota AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... approving a June 14, 2010 SIP submittal from the State that revises the State's Prevention of Significant...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-18
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R01-OAR-2011-0711; FRL-9660-2] Approval and... Ozone Standard for the Greater Connecticut Area; Correction AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... nonattainment area did not meet the applicable deadline of November 15, 2007, for attaining the one-hour...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-10-25
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2012-0769; FRL-9901-81-Region 3... of the 1997 Annual Fine Particulate Standards for the Liberty-Clairton Nonattainment Area AGENCY... area (the Liberty-Clairton Area). First, EPA is determining that the Liberty-Clairton Area attained the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-09
... rule. SUMMARY: The EPA is taking direct final action to approve a carbon monoxide (CO) Limited... maintain the CO National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) through the second 10-year maintenance..., Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101. Hand Delivery/Courier: U.S. EPA Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-01-07
... human health, especially children and adults who are active outdoors, and individuals with a pre... EPA's regulations. II. What Is the Background for This Action? In 1997, EPA revised the health-based... the 8-hour ozone standard based on scientific evidence demonstrating that ozone causes adverse health...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-25
... health (``primary'' NAAQS) and welfare (``secondary'' NAAQS). In 1978, EPA designated the San Diego Air... on scientific evidence demonstrating that ozone causes adverse health effects at lower ozone... was set. EPA determined that the 1997 ozone standard would be more protective of human health...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-05
... human health, especially children and adults who are active outdoors, and individuals with a pre... EPA's regulations. II. What is the background for this action? In 1997, EPA revised the health-based... the 8-hour ozone standard based on scientific evidence demonstrating that ozone causes adverse health...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-31
... the State's Attainment Demonstration SIP In 1997, EPA revised the health-based NAAQS for ozone... scientific evidence demonstrating that ozone causes adverse health effects at lower ozone concentrations and.... EPA determined that the 8-hour standard would be more protective of human health, especially with...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-29
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0088; FRL-9783-4] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Ohio; Particulate Matter Standards AGENCY: Environmental... submitted a request to approve a section of its particulate matter (PM) rules on February 23, 2012. The PM...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-25
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Revisions To Open Burning Regulations AGENCY... Emission Standards: General Burning authorizes the State to extend the time period for open burning. EPA is... submitted a SIP revision to Rule R307-202 Emission Standards: General Burning. This rule contains the...
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Memorandum of Understanding Between U.S. EPA Superfund and U.S. NRC
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Walker, Stuart
2008-01-15
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are responsible for implementing the 'Memorandum of Understanding Between the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Consultation and Finality on Decommissioning and Decontamination of Contaminated Sites'. This paper provides a brief overview of the origin of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the major features of the MOU, and how the MOU has been implemented site specifically. EPA and NRC developed the MOU in response to direction from the House Committee on Appropriations to EPA and NRC to work togethermore » to address the potential for dual regulation. The MOU was signed by EPA on September 30, 2002 and NRC on October 9, 2002. The two agencies had worked on the MOU since March 2000. While both EPA and NRC have statutory authority to clean up these sites, the MOU provides consultation procedures between EPA and NRC to eliminate dual regulation. Under the MOU, EPA and NRC identified the interactions of the two agencies for the decommissioning and decontamination of NRC-licensed sites and the ways in which those responsibilities will be exercised. Except for Section VI, which addresses corrective action under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), this MOU is limited to the coordination between EPA, when acting under its CERCLA authority, and NRC, when a facility licensed by the NRC is undergoing decommissioning, or when a facility has completed decommissioning, and the NRC has terminated its license. EPA believes that implementation of the MOU between the two agencies will ensure that future confusion about dual regulation does not occur regarding the cleanup and reuse of NRC-licensed sites. NRC and EPA have so far exchanged MOU consultation letters on eight NRC-licensed sites. EPA has responded to each consultation request with a letter expressing its views on actions that NRC should consider that address the site-specific matter that triggered consultation. Over the course of consultations on the eight sites, there have been some reoccurring themes to EPA's views. Primarily, these are EPA: 1. Recommending that NRC consider selecting institutional controls to ensure that NRC's assumptions about future human exposure at the site are not exceeded. 2. Recommending that NRC consider using more site-specific information when conducting dose assessment modeling. 3. Recommending that NRC consider a flexible approach to groundwater protection that still ensures the public is not exposed to contamination levels over drinking water limits. 4. Recommending that NRC consider an approach similar to how EPA implements supplemental standards under 40 CFR 192 as an ARAR when the UMTRCA soil standard of 5 pCi/g is not being met.« less
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Infrastructure SIP Requirements and Guidance
The Clean Air Act requires states to submit SIPs that implement, maintain, and enforce a new or revised national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) within 3 years of EPA issuing the standard. The Infrastructure SIP is required for all states.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-30
...EPA is proposing to approve in part and disapprove in part state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by California to provide for attainment of the 1997 annual and 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) nonattainment area. The SIP revisions are the SJV 2008 PM2.5 Plan (revised 2010) and portions of the 2007 State Strategy (revised 2009). Specifically, EPA is proposing to approve the emissions inventories as meeting the requirements of the Clean Air Act and EPA's fine particle implementing rule and to approve commitments to implement specific measures and meet specific aggregate emissions reductions by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the California Air Resource Board. In addition, we are proposing to find that volatile organic compounds are a PM2.5 attainment plan precursor in the SJV for which controls should be evaluated. EPA is proposing to disapprove the attainment demonstration. EPA is also proposing to disapprove the reasonably available control measures/reasonably available control technology demonstration, the air quality modeling, the reasonable further progress (RFP) demonstration, the contingency measures, and the attainment and RFP conformity motor vehicle emissions budgets. EPA is also proposing to not grant California's request to extend to April 5, 2015 the deadline for the SJV nonattainment area to attain the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-05
... Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule...- hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and the 1997 and 2006 NAAQS for fine..., 1997, EPA issued a revised NAAQS for ozone \\1\\ and a new NAAQS for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ).\\2...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-04
... 1997 8-hour ozone standard in the Area. EPA is also proposing to approve the motor vehicle emission... internal combustion engines. \\4\\ On May 12, 2005, EPA published the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which... requiring inspection and maintenance of vehicles (I/M). Section 182(c)(3)requires enhanced vehicle...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-09
... 1997 (62 FR 38856), the EPA revised the health-based NAAQS for ozone, setting it at 0.08 parts per... scientific evidence demonstrating that ozone causes adverse health effects at lower ozone concentrations and.... The EPA determined that the 8-hour standard would be more protective of human health, especially...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-21
... Products Industries OAR 340-236 Emission Standards for Specific Industries OAR 340-240 Rules for Areas with... and PSD Increments'' includes the 1997 PM 2.5 , 2006 PM 2.5 , and 2008 ozone NAAQS. The EPA most... addition to other rules and control programs identified below. The EPA most recently approved revisions to...
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PM NAAQS Implementation Training and Assistance for State and Local Air Agencies
EPA offers training and assistance resources for air agencies in developing their state implementation plans (SIPs), as well as in reaching or maintaining attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-11
... Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for light vehicles since 1978 under the statutory authority of the Energy... 19, 2007, amended EPCA and mandated that NHTSA, in consultation with EPA, set fuel economy standards... agency to implement test methods, measurement metrics, fuel economy standards, and compliance and...
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75 FR 17709 - Adequacy Status of the Knoxville, Tennessee 1997 PM2.5
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-07
...In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that EPA has found that the direct particulate matter (PM2.5) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the Knoxville, Tennessee Attainment Demonstration Plan for the 1997 PM2.5 standard, submitted April 4, 2008, by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. On March 2, 1999, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) ruled that submitted State Implementation Plans (SIPs) cannot be used for transportation conformity determinations until EPA has affirmatively found them adequate. As a result of EPA's finding, the Knoxville, Tennessee area, including the portion of Roane County, must use the MVEBs for future conformity determinations for the 1997 PM2.5 standard.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-11
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2013-0289; FRL-9822-2] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Revision to the Classification and Implementation of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for the Northern Virginia Nonattainment Area...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-02
... for State Implementation Plan (SIP) Submissions? In 1997, EPA revised the health-based national... that ozone causes adverse health effects at lower ozone concentrations and over longer periods of time... standard would be more protective of human health, especially with regard to children and adults who are...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-10
... the 2008 Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), necessary to implement, maintain, and enforce the 2008 lead national..., necessary to implement, maintain, and enforce the 2008 lead NAAQS. II. Summary of SIP Revision On October 17...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-14
...-9811-5] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... implementation plan (SIP) for nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) under the Clean Air Act. This...
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77 FR 28423 - Final Rule To Implement the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard...
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-14
...The EPA is revising the rules for implementing the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) to address certain limited portions of the rules vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This final rule assigns Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) classifications and associated state planning and control requirements to selected ozone nonattainment areas. This final rule also addresses three vacated provisions of the 1997 8-hour NAAQS--Phase 1 Implementation Rule (April 30, 2004) that provided exemptions from the anti-backsliding requirements relating to nonattainment area New Source Review (NSR), CAA section 185 penalty fees, and contingency measures, as these three requirements applied for the 1-hour standard. This rule also reinstates the 1-hour contingency measures as applicable requirements that must be retained until the area attains the 1997 8- hour ozone standard. Finally, this rule deletes an obsolete provision that stayed the EPA's authority to revoke the 1-hour ozone standard pending the Agency's issuance of a final rule that revises or reinstates its revocation authority and considers and addresses certain other issues. That rule has now been issued.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-18
... compounds (VOC), and ammonia as meeting the requirements of the CAA. Finally, EPA finds adequate and is... 24-hour PM 2.5 standard. In a supplemental submission to EPA on April 30, 2013, Ohio provided ammonia.../2008 emission inventories for VOC and ammonia as satisfying the requirement in section 172(c)(3) of the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-30
... Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule... of the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS as of the applicable date. DATES: Effective Date: This final rule will... action is EPA taking in this final rule? II. What is the background for this final action? III. What was...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-26
... demonstration showing how the area will continue to attain the 24-hour PM 10 NAAQS for at least 10 years beyond...; California; South Coast Air Basin; Approval of PM 10 Maintenance Plan and Redesignation to Attainment for the PM 10 Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-22
... posting of the availability of the submittal on EPA's Adequacy Web site (at http://www.epa.gov/otaq... average annual fourth-highest daily maximum 8-hour average ozone concentration), if it had a 1-hour design... ozone standard is attained when the three-year average of the annual fourth-highest daily maximum 8-hour...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-09
...EPA is proposing to approve a request from Illinois to redesignate the Illinois portion of the Chicago-Gary-Lake County, Illinois-Indiana (IL-IN) ozone nonattainment area (the Greater Chicago area) to attainment of the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or standard) because the request meets the statutory requirements for redesignation under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The Illinois portion of the Greater Chicago area includes Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties and portions of Grundy (Aux Sable and Goose Lake Townships) and Kendall (Oswego Township) Counties. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) submitted this request on July 23, 2009, and supplemented its request in a submittal on September 16, 2011. EPA is proposing to approve, as a revision of the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP), the State's plan for maintaining the 1997 8-hour ozone standard through 2025 in the Illinois portion of the Greater Chicago area. EPA is proposing to approve 2002 Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) emission inventories for the Illinois portion of the Greater Chicago area as a revision of the Illinois SIP because the emission inventories meet the requirements of section 182(a) of the CAA. Finally, EPA proposes to approve the State's 2008 and 2025 VOC and NOX Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets (MVEBs) for the Illinois portion of the Greater Chicago area.
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2008 Lead (Pb) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Implementation Actions
Read about the EPA's infrastructure actions for the 2008 lead NAAQS. These actions are regarding states' failure to submit SIPs addressing various parts of the standards. Here you can read the federal register notices, fact sheets, and the docket folder.
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77 FR 38399 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Arizona; Nogales PM10
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-27
...EPA is proposing to approve a state implementation plan revision submitted by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to address the moderate area PM10, particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than or equal to a nominal ten micrometers, planning requirements for the Nogales nonattainment area. Consistent with this proposal, EPA is also proposing to approve the following plan elements as meeting the requirements of the Clean Air Act: the Nogales nonattainment area 2008 and 2011 emission inventories; the demonstration that the Nogales nonattainment area is attaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM10, but for international emissions sources in Nogales, Mexico; the demonstration that reasonably available control measures sufficient to meet the standard have been implemented in the nonattainment area; the reasonable further progress demonstration; the demonstration that implementation of measures beyond those needed for attainment meet the contingency measure requirement; and, the motor vehicle emissions budget for the purposes of determining the conformity of transportation plans, programs, and projects with this PM10 plan.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-05
... Attainment for the 2008 Lead Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Direct final... area has attained the 2008 lead (Pb) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS or standard). In... of designations for the 2008 Lead NAAQS on November 22, 2011. See 76 FR 72097. No additional areas in...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
...EPA is making two determinations, one regarding the Knoxville, Tennessee, 1997 annual fine particulate (PM2.5) nonattainment area and one regarding the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, Tennessee, 2006 24-hour PM2.5 nonattainment area (both areas have the same geographic boundary and will hereafter be collectively referred to as the ``Knoxville Area'' or ``Area''). First, EPA is determining that the Area has attained the 1997 annual PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or ``standard''). Second, EPA is determining that the Area has attained the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS. These determinations of attaining data are based upon quality-assured and certified ambient air monitoring data for the 2009-2011 period, showing that the Area has monitored attainment of the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS and 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS. The requirements for the Area to submit an attainment demonstration and associated reasonably available control measures (RACM), reasonable further progress (RFP) plans, contingency measures, and other planning State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions related to attainment of the standards shall be suspended so long as the Area continues to attain the respective PM2.5 NAAQS.
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77 FR 70752 - Notice of Decision Regarding Requests for a Waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-27
...The Governors of several States requested that EPA waive the national volume requirements for the renewable fuel standard program (RFS or RFS program), pursuant to section 211(o)(7) of the Clean Air Act (the Act), based on the effects of the drought on feedstocks used to produce renewable fuel in 2012-2013. Several other parties submitted similar requests. Based on a thorough review of the record in this case, EPA finds that the evidence and information does not support a determination that implementation of the RFS program during the 2012- 2013 time period would severely harm the economy of a State, a region, or the United States. EPA is therefore denying the requests for a waiver.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-11
...EPA is proposing to make two determinations regarding the tri- state Huntington-Ashland, West Virginia-Kentucky-Ohio fine particulate matter (PM2.5) nonattainment Area (hereafter referred to as ``the Huntington-Ashland Area'' or ``Area''). First, EPA is proposing to determine that the Area has attained the 1997 annual average PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). This proposed determination of attainment is based upon complete, quality- assured and certified ambient air monitoring data for the 2007-2009 period showing that the Area has attained the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS, and data available to date for 2010 in EPA's Air Quality System (AQS) database that show the area continues to attain. If EPA finalizes this proposed determination of attainment, the requirements for the Area to submit attainment demonstrations and associated reasonably available control measures (RACM), a reasonable further progress (RFP) plan, contingency measures, and other planning State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions related to attainment of the standard shall be suspended for so long as the Area continues to attain the annual PM2.5 NAAQS. Second, EPA is also proposing to determine, based on quality-assured and certified monitoring data for the 2007-2009 monitoring period, that the Area has attained the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS by its applicable attainment date of April 5, 2010.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-16
...EPA is proposing to approve a revision to the District of Columbia State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the District of Columbia through the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) on October 27, 2011 that addresses regional haze for the first implementation period. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future, and remedy any existing, anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA is proposing to determine that the Regional Haze plan submitted by the District of Columbia satisfies these requirements of the CAA. EPA is also proposing to approve this revision as meeting the infrastructure requirements relating to visibility protection for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) and the 1997 and 2006 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-10
...EPA is proposing action on four Missouri State Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions. First, EPA is proposing to approve portions of two SIP submissions from the State of Missouri addressing the applicable requirements of Clean Air Act (CAA) for the 1997 and 2006 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). The CAA requires that each state adopt and submit a SIP to support implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of each new or revised NAAQS promulgated by EPA. These SIPs are commonly referred to as ``infrastructure'' SIPs. The infrastructure requirements are designed to ensure that the structural components of each state's air quality management program are adequate to meet the state's responsibilities under the CAA. EPA is also proposing to approve two additional SIP submissions from Missouri, one addressing the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program in Missouri, and another addressing the requirements applicable to any board or body which approves permits or enforcement orders of the CAA, both of which support requirements associated with infrastructure SIPs.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-07
...EPA is proposing to approve a portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Oregon for the purpose of addressing the interstate transport provisions of Clean Air Act (CAA) section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) for the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standards) and the 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS. Section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) of the CAA requires that each State have adequate provisions to prohibit air emissions from adversely affecting air quality in other States through interstate transport. EPA is proposing to approve Oregon's SIP revision for the 1997 8-hour ozone and 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS as meeting the requirements of CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) to prohibit emissions that will contribute significantly to nonattainment of the these standards in any other State and to prohibit emissions that will interfere with maintenance of these standards by any other State.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-16
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Infrastructure Requirements for the 2008 Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule... Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Quality Control, P.O. Box 8468, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-20
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; the 2002 Base Year Inventory AGENCY: Environmental... matter (PM 2.5 ) 2002 base year emissions inventory portion of the Maryland State Implementation Plan... National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) SIP. EPA is proposing to approve the 2002 base year PM 2.5...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-26
... information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA... information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your...--Restrictions on Particulate Emissions and Odors From Incinerators No changes were made to Rule 9 since it was...
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40 CFR 51.110 - Attainment and maintenance of national standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... PROGRAMS REQUIREMENTS FOR PREPARATION, ADOPTION, AND SUBMITTAL OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS Control Strategy...) During developing of the plan, EPA encourages States to identify alternative control strategies, as well...
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78 FR 76064 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Michigan
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-16
...] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Michigan AGENCY: Environmental Protection... nonattainment air quality permitting regulations found in 40 CFR 51.165(a) and (b). EPA has found that the rules... progress toward achieving the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. II. Statutory and Executive Order...
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75 FR 11461 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Minnesota
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-11
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Minnesota AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA.... Because the PM 10 emission limits are being reduced, the air quality of Ramsey County will be protected... culpable source in the Childs Road area's nonattainment of the PM 10 National Ambient Air Quality Standards...
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76 FR 23196 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; IL
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-26
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; IL AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... VOC for purposes of preparing SIPs to attain the national ambient air quality standard for ozone under... Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-30
...EPA is approving a redesignation request and State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of West Virginia. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) requested that the West Virginia portion of the Wheeling, WV-OH fine particulate matter (PM2.5) nonattainment area (``Wheeling Area'' or ``Area'') be redesignated as attainment for the 1997 annual PM2.5 national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). In this rulemaking action, EPA is approving the 1997 annual PM2.5 redesignation request for the West Virginia portion of the Area. EPA is also approving the maintenance plan SIP revision that the State submitted in conjunction with its redesignation request. The maintenance plan provides for continued attainment of the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS for 10 years after redesignation of the West Virginia portion of the Area. The maintenance plan includes a comprehensive emissions inventory that EPA is approving in this rulemaking. The maintenance plan also includes an insignificance determination for the onroad motor vehicle contribution of PM2.5, nitrogen oxides (NOX), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) for the West Virginia portion of the Area for purposes of transportation conformity. EPA is also approving West Virginia's insignificance determination for transportation conformity. In addition, EPA is also finding that the Area continues to attain the standard. This rulemaking action approving the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS redesignation request, maintenance plan, comprehensive emissions inventory, and insignificance determination for transportation conformity for the West Virginia portion of the Area is based on EPA's determination that the Area has met the criteria for redesignation to attainment specified in the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-23
...-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Section 110(a) of the CAA requires that each state adopt and submit... National Ambient Air Quality Standards.'' \\1\\ Two elements identified in section 110(a)(2) are not governed...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-25
...EPA is proposing a limited approval and a limited disapproval of six revisions to the Virginia State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Commonwealth of Virginia, through the Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ), that address regional haze for the first implementation period. These revisions address the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas (national parks and wilderness areas) caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA is proposing a limited approval of these SIP revisions to implement the regional haze requirements for Virginia on the basis that the revisions, as a whole, strengthen the Virginia SIP. Also in this action, EPA is proposing a limited disapproval of these same SIP revisions because of the deficiencies in the Commonwealth's regional haze SIP submittal arising from the remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC Circuit) to EPA of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). EPA is also proposing to approve this revision as meeting the infrastructure requirements relating to visibility protection for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) and the 1997 and 2006 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-28
...EPA is approving a redesignation request and State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of West Virginia. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) requested that the West Virginia portion of the Huntington- Ashland, WV-KY-OH fine particulate matter (PM2.5) nonattainment area (``Huntington-Ashland Area'' or ``Area'') be redesignated as attainment for the 1997 annual PM2.5 national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). In this rulemaking action, EPA is approving the 1997 annual PM2.5 redesignation request for the West Virginia portion of the Area. EPA is also approving the maintenance plan SIP revision that the State submitted in conjunction with its redesignation request. The maintenance plan provides for continued attainment of the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS for 10 years after redesignation of the West Virginia portion of the Area. The maintenance plan includes an insignificance determination for the onroad motor vehicle contribution of PM2.5, nitrogen oxides (NOX), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) for the West Virginia portion of the Area for purposes of transportation conformity. EPA is approving West Virginia's insignificance determination for transportation conformity. EPA is also finding that the Area continues to attain the standard. This rulemaking action approving the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS redesignation request, maintenance plan, and insignificance determination for transportation conformity for the West Virginia portion of the Area is based on EPA's determination that the Area has met the criteria for redesignation to attainment specified in the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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TWO NEW GAS STANDARDS PROGRAMS AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
The EPA/NIST certified reference materials (CRM) program is being terminated and replaced with two new ones: the NIST Traceable Reference Materials (NTRM) and the Research Gas Mixture (RGM) programs. hese new programs are being implemented to provide NIST traceability to a wider ...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-28
...EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving a revision to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Oklahoma through the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality on February 19, 2010, intended to address the regional haze requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA). In addition, EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving a portion of a revision to the Oklahoma SIP submitted by the State of Oklahoma on May 10, 2007 and supplemented on December 10, 2007 to address the requirements of CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) as it applies to visibility for the 1997 8- hour ozone and 1997 fine particulate matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards. This CAA requirement is intended to prevent emissions from one state from interfering with the visibility programs in another state. EPA is approving certain core elements of the SIP including Oklahoma's: determination of baseline and natural visibility conditions; coordinating regional haze and reasonably attributable visibility impairment; monitoring strategy and other implementation requirements; coordination with states and Federal Land Managers; and a number of NOX, SO2, and PM BART determinations. EPA is finding that Oklahoma's regional haze SIP did not address the sulfur dioxide Best Available Retrofit Technology requirements for six units in Oklahoma in accordance with the Regional Haze requirements, or the requirement to prevent interference with other states' visibility programs. EPA is promulgating a Federal Implementation Plan to address these deficiencies by requiring emissions to be reduced at these six units. This action is being taken under section 110 and part C of the CAA.
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Air Quality Implementation Plans
States must develop plans to attain and maintain air quality standards. These plans, known as SIPs, are submitted to EPA for approval. This web site contains information about this process and the current status of the submittals.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-02
... Matter and Ozone AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of public hearings... Implementation Plans to Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone'' (Transport Rule) which... matter (PM 2.5 ) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and the 1997 ozone NAAQS. Public hearing...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-04
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 81 [EPA-R04-OAR-2010-0504-201029; FRL-9185-1] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Extension of Attainment Date for the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock... national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, North Carolina-South...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-22
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Infrastructure and Interstate Transport.... SUMMARY: EPA is approving the submittal from the State of New Mexico pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or..., and enforce the 2006 fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-15
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2011-0454; FRL-9439-9] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Determination of Attainment and Determination of Clean Data for the Annual 1997 Fine Particle Standard for the Charleston Area AGENCY...
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EPA is taking final rulemaking action to approve, as part of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the State of Arizona, the second 10-year maintenance plan for the Douglas maintenance area for the 1971 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for SO2.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-19
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Revisions To Open Burning Regulations AGENCY... Emission Standards: General Burning authorizes the State to extend the time period for open burning. EPA is... Burning. This rule contains the following provisions: definitions and exclusions, community waste disposal...
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75 FR 76332 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-08
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... attaining the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). The State's NO X RACT waiver... classification of an area. The air quality planning and control requirements for the reduction of NO X emissions...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-08
...EPA is finalizing a limited approval and limited disapproval of a state implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of California on November 17, 2007, to address the ``transport SIP'' provisions of Clean Air Act (CAA) section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) for the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standards) and the 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS. Section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) of the CAA requires that each SIP contain, among other things, adequate measures prohibiting emissions of air pollutants in amounts which will interfere with any other State's measures required under title I, part C of the CAA to prevent significant deterioration of air quality. EPA is approving California's SIP revision with respect to those Districts that implement SIP- approved permit programs meeting the approval criteria and simultaneously disapproving California's SIP revision with respect to those Districts that do not implement SIP-approved permit programs meeting the approval criteria, as discussed in our May 31, 2011 proposed rule (76 FR 31263).
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Forinash, Betsy; Schultheisz, Daniel; Peake, Tom
2013-07-01
Following the decision to withdraw the Yucca Mountain license application, the Department of Energy created a Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on America's Nuclear Future, tasked with recommending a national strategy to manage the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. The BRC issued its final report in January 2012, with recommendations covering transportation, storage and disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF); potential reprocessing; and supporting institutional measures. The BRC recommendations on disposal of SNF and high-level waste (HLW) are relevant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which shares regulatory responsibility with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC): EPA issues 'generallymore » applicable' performance standards for disposal repositories, which are then implemented in licensing. For disposal, the BRC endorses developing one or more geological repositories, with siting based on an approach that is adaptive, staged and consent-based. The BRC recommends that EPA and NRC work cooperatively to issue generic disposal standards-applying equally to all sites-early in any siting process. EPA previously issued generic disposal standards that apply to all sites other than Yucca Mountain. However, the BRC concluded that the existing regulations should be revisited and revised. The BRC proposes a number of general principles to guide the development of future regulations. EPA continues to review the BRC report and to assess the implications for Agency action, including potential regulatory issues and considerations if EPA develops new or revised generic disposal standards. This review also involves preparatory activities to define potential process and public engagement approaches. (authors)« less
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Region 10: Oregon Oakridge Adequate Letter (6/21/2017)
EPA approves motor vehicle emissions budget in the Oakridge-Westfir PM2.5 Attainment State Implementation Plan for the 2006 PM2.5 national ambient air quality standard, adequate for transportation conformity purposes.
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76 FR 17585 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-30
... 1997 revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone. Section 110(a)(1... modeling to assure attainment and maintenance of the applicable standards. By statute, SIPs meeting the... ozone and PM 2.5 NAAQS.\\1\\ EPA will address these elements below under the following headings: (A...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-24
.... Id. \\7\\ Consistent with EPA's definition of ``design value'' in 40 CFR 58.1, we use the term ``design... evaluations below. Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program The Contingency Measures SIP identifies a portion of the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program (Carl Moyer Program...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-02
... quarter substitution test. ``Collocated'' indicates that the collocated data was substituted for missing... 24-hour standard design value is greater than the level of the standard. EPA addresses missing data... substituted for the missing data. In the maximum quarter test, maximum recorded values are substituted for the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-14
...; Determination of Attainment of the Fine Particle Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION...) fine particle (PM 2.5 ) nonattainment area has attained the 1997 annual average PM 2.5 National Ambient... particle standard for the bi-state Louisville (Indiana and Kentucky) area, involves proposed determinations...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-18
... actions that may cause or contribute to violations of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS... cause or contribute to violations of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). This amendment... provide EPA with the discretionary authority to address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-13
...EPA is proposing a limited approval and a limited disapproval of a revision to the West Virginia State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of West Virginia through the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) on June 18, 2008, that addresses regional haze for the first implementation period. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future, and remedy any existing, anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA is proposing a limited approval of this SIP revision to implement the regional haze requirements for West Virginia on the basis that the revision, as a whole, strengthens the West Virginia SIP. Also in this action, EPA is proposing a limited disapproval of this same SIP revision because of the deficiencies in the State's June 2008 regional haze SIP submittal arising from the remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit) to EPA of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). EPA is also proposing to approve this revision as meeting the requirements of 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) and 110(a)(2)(J), relating to visibility protection for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) and the 1997 and 2006 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-18
... Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... the requirements of sections 110(a)(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) for the 2008 Lead... that ensure the 2008 Lead NAAQS are implemented, enforced, and maintained in Tennessee. With the...
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Region 10: Idaho Northern Ada County Adequate Letter (6/21/2013)
EPA approves motor vehicle emissions budget in the Northern Ada County PM10 State Implementation Plan, Maintenance Plan: Ten-Year Update for PM10 national ambient air quality standard, adequate for transportation conformity purposes.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-06
... Particle Standard for the Detroit-Ann Arbor Nonattainment Area AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...) regarding the 1997 annual fine particle (PM 2.5 ) nonattainment area of Detroit-Ann Arbor, Michigan...
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EPA Field Manual for Coral Reef Assessments
The Water Quality Research Program (WQRP) supports development of coral reef biological criteria. Research is focused on developing methods and tools to support implementation of legally defensible biological standards for maintaining biological integrity, which is protected by ...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-27
... particular state.'' Response: While EPA views CAIR as likely one of the motivations for the power plant... that mostly occurred after Evansville attained the standard. Furthermore, the motivations for power...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-21
...On January 30, 2012, the EPA proposed revisions to several provisions of the final National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources. The proposed revisions were made, in part, in response to a petition for reconsideration received by the Administrator following the promulgation of the October 29, 2009, final rule (``2009 final rule''). In this action, the EPA is finalizing those amendments, lifting the stay of the title V permit requirement issued on March 14, 2011, and lifting the stay of the final rule issued on October 25, 2012. In addition, this final action includes revisions to the EPA's approach for addressing malfunctions and standards applicable during startup and shutdown periods. This final action also includes amendments and technical corrections to the final rule to clarify applicability and compliance issues raised by stakeholders subject to the 2009 final rule. The revisions to the final rule do not reduce the level of environmental protection or emissions control on sources regulated by this rule but provide flexibility and clarity to improve implementation. This action also extends the compliance date for existing sources and the EPA's final response to all issues raised in the petition for reconsideration.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-05
...EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the North Dakota State Implementation Plan that the Governor of North Dakota submitted with a letter dated April 6, 2009. The revisions affect North Dakota's air pollution control rules regarding general provisions (including rules regarding shutdowns and malfunctions), ambient air quality standards, emissions of particulate matter, permitting, and fees. In addition, EPA is proposing administrative corrections to the regulatory text for North Dakota that will be codified in the Code of Federal Regulations; we made errors in the identification of plan table when we approved the North Dakota State Implementation Plan revisions for Interstate Transport of pollution, which the Governor also submitted on April 6, 2009. This action is being taken under section 110 of the Clean Air Act.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-10
... for the 2008 Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). DATES: This final rule is effective on October 10, 2012... promulgation of such NAAQS. Section 110(a)(2) of the CAA directs all states to develop and maintain an air...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-02
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [Docket No. EPA-R02-OAR-2013-0618; FRL-9903-24... Data for the 1987 PM 10 Standard for the New York County Area AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency... New York County nonattainment area in New York is attaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standard...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-29
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 52 and 81 [EPA-R05-OAR-2011-0673; FRL-9900-49-Region5... Arbor Area to Attainment of the 1997 Annual Standard and the 2006 24-Hour Standard for Fine Particulate... nonattainment area (Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties) to attainment...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-15
...; Determination of Attainment of the 1997 Fine Particle Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT fine particle (PM 2.5 ) nonattainment area for the 1997 fine particle National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) has attained the 1997 PM 2.5 NAAQS. DATES: Effective...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-01-05
... to what constitutes the generally available control technology or management practices for the area... area sources, pose the greatest threat to public health in the largest number of urban areas. EPA implemented this provision in 1999 in the Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy, (64 FR 38715, July 19, 1999...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-23
...EPA is proposing to approve a portion of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Oregon for the purpose of addressing the third element of the interstate transport provisions of Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act) section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) for the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standards) and the 1997 and 2006 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS. The third element of CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) requires that a State not interfere with any other State's required measures to prevent significant deterioration (PSD) of its air quality. EPA is also proposing to approve numerous revisions to the Oregon SIP that were submitted to EPA by the State of Oregon on October 8, 2008; October 10, 2008; March 17, 2009; June 23, 2010; December 22, 2010 and May 5, 2011. The revisions include updating Oregon's new source review (NSR) rules to be consistent with current Federal regulations and streamlining Oregon's air quality rules by clarifying requirements, removing duplicative rules, and correcting errors. The revisions were submitted in accordance with the requirements of section 110 and part D of the Act).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-20
... the SIP. Accordingly, it affords no opportunity for EPA to fashion for small entities less burdensome... procedures, and business practices) that are developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies...
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IDENTIFYING SOURCES OF HUMAN EXPOSURE
Air pollution from ambient sources continues to adversely impact human health in the United States. A fundamental goal for EPA is to implement air quality standards and regulations that reduce health risks associated with exposures to criteria pollutants and air toxics. However...
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78 FR 44599 - Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-24
... plugs at Defendant's existing and new natural gas wells within EPA Region 3; implementation of standard operating procedures for tank loading and unloading; and an obligation to increase recycling of produced...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-07
...; Determination of Attainment of the Fine Particle Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... Louis PM 2.5 nonattainment area in Illinois and Missouri has attained the 1997 annual fine particle (PM...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-13
...EPA is proposing to approve in part and disapprove in part state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by California to provide for attainment of the 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV). These SIP revisions are the SJV 2008 PM2.5 Plan (revised 2010 and 2011) and SJV-related provisions of the 2007 State Strategy (revised 2009 and 2011). EPA is proposing to approve the emissions inventories; air quality modeling; the reasonably available control measures/reasonably available control technology, reasonable further progress, and attainment demonstrations; and the transportation conformity motor vehicle emissions budgets. EPA is also proposing to grant California's request to extend the attainment deadline for the SJV to April 5, 2015 and to approve commitments to measures and reductions by the SJV Air Pollution Control District and the California Air Resources Board. Finally, it is proposing to disapprove the SIP's contingency measures. This proposed rule amends EPA's November 30, 2010 proposed rule (75 FR 74518) on the SJV 2008 PM2.5 Plan and 2007 State Strategy.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-14
.... SUMMARY: EPA is taking final action to find that Arizona failed to make a state implementation plan (SIP... nonattainment area which, having failed to attain the PM-10 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) by... today finding that Arizona failed to make the submittal required for the Maricopa area under section 189...
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77 FR 45492 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; South Carolina 110(a)(1) and (2...
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-01
... for the 1997 annual and 2006 24-hour PM 2.5 NAAQS. EPA has determined that South Carolina's March 14... 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Section 110... 1997 annual and 2006 24-hour PM 2.5 NAAQS are implemented, enforced, and maintained in South Carolina...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-16
... standards for ozone, lead, and particulate matter found in the Code of Federal Regulations. DATES: This..., submission amending the State's NAAQS table for ozone, lead and particulate matter that are found at 15A NCAC... Carolina's SIP. b. Lead On November 12, 2008, EPA revised the lead NAAQS from 1.5 micrograms per cubic...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-02
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; The 2002 Base Year Inventory for the... proposing to approve the fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) 2002 base year emissions inventory portion of the... Quality Standard (NAAQS) SIP. EPA is proposing to approve the 2002 base year PM 2.5 emissions inventory...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-02
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; The 2002 Base Year Inventory for the... proposing to approve the fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) 2002 base year emissions inventory portion of the... Standard (NAAQS) SIP. EPA is proposing to approve the 2002 base year PM 2.5 emissions inventory for the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-02
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; The 2002 Base Year Inventory for the... proposing to approve the fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) 2002 base year emissions inventory portion of the... National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) SIP. EPA is proposing to approve the 2002 base year PM 2.5...
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Residual Risk Report to Congress 1999
This report is a description of the methods and general framework that EPA uses to assess the public health and environmental risk which may remain after implementation of air toxics emissions standards required under section 112(d) of the Clean Air Act.
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California State Implementation Plan (SIP); Proposed Mobile Source Regulations
EPA is proposing to approve a submittal by the California to revise its SIP establishing standards and other requirements relating to the control of emissions from certain new and in-use on-road and off-road vehicles and engines.
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DETERMINING INHALATION RISK -- TOOLS FOR ASSESSING HAZARD.
The Clean Air Act focuses on reduction of the potential for specific air pollutants to cause adverse health effects. Implementation of standards to control release of the 188 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the healt...
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EPA Approved New Jersey Source-Specific Requirements
This section sets forth the applicable State Implementation Plan (SIP) for New Jersey under section 110 of the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., and 40 CFR part 51 to meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-07
... Greater Chicago area has attained the 1997 annual PM 2.5 standard. In particular, the September 27, 2011... the State of Indiana for the 1997 annual fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) National Ambient Air... redesignation of Lake and Porter Counties to attainment of the 1997 annual PM 2.5 standard. EPA is approving, as...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-15
... suspended for as long as the areas continue to attain the 1997 8-hour ozone standard. These determinations... obligations remain suspended for each area for so long as it continues to attain the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS...; Determination of Attainment of the 1997 8-hour Ozone Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-01
... standards for which EPA has issued the waiver. CARB has as long a history of enforcement of vehicle/engine... program. The history and rigor of CARB's enforcement program lends assurance to California SIP revisions...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-23
... standard was set at 15 micrograms per cubic meter ([mu]g/m\\3\\), based on the 3-year average of annual... 2.5 standard was set at 65 [mu]g/m\\3\\, based on the 3- year average of the 98th percentile of 24... partially approve the submittal based on EPA's independent evaluation of Nevada's impact on receptor states...
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Implementing the NPDES program: An update on the WET ...
The U.S. EPA has utilized the Clean Water Act - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting program to protect waters of the U.S for over 40 years. NPDES permit effluent limitations serve as the primary mechanism for controlling discharges of pollutants to receiving waters. When developing effluent limitations for an NPDES permit, a permit writer must consider limits based on both the technology available to control the pollutants (i.e., technology-based effluent limits) and limits that are protective of the water quality standards of the receiving water (i.e., water quality-based effluent limits). WET testing is one of the water quality-based effluent limitation mechanisms available to permit writers that is useful in determining how the additive, synergistic and compounding effects of toxic effluents effect streams. This presentation will provide an overview of the current EPA NPDES permit program direction for increasing the efficacy of NPDES permits program administered by the U.S. EPA and States. The training implementation plan is expected to provide permit writers with a clearer understanding of WET requirements as established via the U.S. EPA WET test manuals, NPDES permitting regulatory authorities, and the WET science which has been long established. not applicable
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75 FR 48880 - Approval and Promulgation of Gila River Indian Community's Tribal Implementation Plan
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-12
...The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the Gila River Indian Community's (GRIC or the Tribe) Tribal Implementation Plan (TIP) under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to regulate air pollution within the exterior boundaries of the Tribe's reservation. The proposed TIP is one of four CAA regulatory programs that comprise the Tribe's Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP). EPA approved the Tribe for treatment in the same manner as a State (Treatment as State or TAS) for purposes of administering the AQMP and other CAA authorities on October 21, 2009. In this action we propose to act only on those portions of the AQMP that constitute a TIP containing severable elements of an implementation plan under CAA section 110(a). The proposed TIP includes general and emergency authorities, ambient air quality standards, permitting requirements for minor sources of air pollution, enforcement authorities, procedures for administrative appeals and judicial review in Tribal court, requirements for area sources of fugitive dust and fugitive particulate matter, general prohibitory rules, and source category-specific emission limitations. The purpose of the proposed TIP is to implement, maintain, and enforce the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in the GRIC reservation. The intended effect of today's proposed action is to make the GRIC TIP federally enforceable.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-24
... Large Appliance and Metal Furniture Coatings AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... Techniques Guidelines (CTG) standards for large appliance and metal furniture coatings. In the Final Rules...; Pennsylvania; Adoption of Control Techniques Guidelines for Large Appliance and Metal Furniture Coatings...
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EVALUATION OF FADROZOLE AS AN ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR IN FATHEAD MINNOW (PIMEPHALES PROMELAS)
The EPA has received a legislative mandate to develop and implement standardized screening and testing methods to identify and assess potential endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The objective of this research was to evaluate a short-term EDC screening/testing assay which ass...
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EPA Approved Nonregulatory Provisions and Quasi-Regulatory Measures in the New Jersey SIP
This section sets forth the applicable State Implementation Plan (SIP) for New Jersey under section 110 of the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., and 40 CFR part 51 to meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-20
...-Hour Fine Particulate Standard for the Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle-York, Allentown, Johnstown, and...: EPA is proposing to determine that the Harrisburg-Lebanon- Carlisle-York, Allentown, Johnstown, and... before February 21, 2012. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments regarding the two-state Harrisburg- Lebanon...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-30
...EPA is correcting its previous full approval of Texas's Clean Air Act (CAA) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program to be a partial approval and partial disapproval. The state did not address, or provide adequate legal authority for, the program's application to all pollutants that would become newly subject to regulation in the future, including non-National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) pollutants, among them greenhouse gases (GHGs). Further, EPA is promulgating a federal implementation plan (FIP), as required following the partial disapproval, to establish a PSD permitting program in Texas for GHG-emitting sources. EPA is taking this action through interim final rulemaking, effective upon publication, to ensure the availability of a permitting authority-- EPA--in Texas for GHG-emitting sources when they become subject to PSD on January 2, 2011. This will allow those sources to proceed with plans to construct or expand. This rule will expire on April 30, 2011. EPA is also proposing a notice-and-comment rulemaking that mirrors this rulemaking.
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Basehore, Pamela M; Mortensen, Luke H; Katsaros, Emmanuel; Linsenmeyer, Machelle; McClain, Elizabeth K; Sexton, Patricia S; Wadsworth, Nicole
2017-11-01
Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are measurable units of observable professional practice that can be entrusted to an unsupervised trainee. They were first introduced as a method of operationalizing competency-based medical education in graduate medical education. The American Association of Medical Colleges subsequently used EPAs to establish the core skills that medical students must be able to perform before they enter residency training. A recently published guide provides descriptions, guidelines, and rationale for implementing and assessing the core EPAs from an osteopathic approach. These osteopathically informed EPAs can allow schools to more appropriately assess a learner's whole-person approach to a patient, in alignment with the philosophy of the profession. As the single accreditation system for graduate medical education moves forward, it will be critical to integrate EPAs into osteopathic medical education to demonstrate entrustment of medical school graduates. The authors describe the collaborative process used to establish the osteopathic considerations added to EPAs and explores the challenges and opportunities for undergraduate osteopathic medical education.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-23
...This action announces how the EPA proposes to address the reviews of the new source performance standards for volatile organic compound and sulfur dioxide emissions from natural gas processing plants. We are proposing to add to the source category list any oil and gas operation not covered by the current listing. This action also includes proposed amendments to the existing new source performance standards for volatile organic compounds from natural gas processing plants and proposed standards for operations that are not covered by the existing new source performance standards. In addition, this action proposes how the EPA will address the residual risk and technology review conducted for the oil and natural gas production and natural gas transmission and storage national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants. This action further proposes standards for emission sources within these two source categories that are not currently addressed, as well as amendments to improve aspects of these national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants related to applicability and implementation. Finally, this action addresses provisions in these new source performance standards and national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants related to emissions during periods of startup, shutdown and malfunction.
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EPA provides an opportunity for public comment on our conclusion that emissions from six states significantly contribute to downwind nonattainment or interfere with maintenance of the 1997 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards in other states.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-14
... gasoline dispensing facilities more stringent by applying them statewide, making the rule applicable to... Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) for gasoline dispensing facilities. The revisions... January 10, 2008, EPA issued new, more stringent National Regulations for Gasoline Dispensing Facilities...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-14
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 52 and 81 [EPA-R05-OAR-2009-0839; FRL-9489-6... Area to Attainment of the 1997 Annual Standard for Fine Particulate Matter AGENCY: Environmental... request to redesignate the Indianapolis, Indiana nonattainment area (Hamilton, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion...
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40 CFR 52.1683 - Control strategy: Ozone.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) New York § 52.1683 Control strategy: Ozone. (a) The State of New York has certified to the satisfaction of the EPA that no sources are... ozone nonattainment areas in New York listed below have attained the 1-hour ozone standard on the date...
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EPA concludes that emissions from Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin significantly contribute to downwind nonattainment or interfere with maintenance of the 1997 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in other states.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-10-17
... Plastic Parts and Business Machines Coatings AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final....19.07-2, Plastic Parts and Business Machines Coating. Maryland's SIP revision meets the requirement... Techniques Guidelines (CTG) standards for plastic parts and business machines coatings and will help Maryland...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-22
... Compounds and Emissions Banking and Trading AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed... Emission of Sulfur Compounds'' will remove redundant sulfur dioxide standards and outdated compliance dates... a second comment period on this action. Any parties interested in commenting on this action should...
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Understanding the Relationships between Air Pollution Levels and Human Health Outcomes
As mandated by the CAA, EPA established National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for criteria pollutants and conducts periodic review of the NAAQS to assess if they need to be revised. The CAA then provides for implementation of the NAAQS based on a combination of local con...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-09
...EPA is proposing to partially approve and partially disapprove submittals from the state of Arkansas pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) that address the infrastructure elements specified in the CAA section 110(a)(2), necessary to implement, maintain, and enforce the 1997 8-hour ozone and the 1997 and 2006 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS or standards). We are proposing to find that the current Arkansas State Implementation Plan (SIP) meets the following infrastructure elements for the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS and the 1997 and 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS: 110(a)(2)(A), (B), (E), (F), (G), (H), (K), (L), (M), and portions of (C), (D)(ii) and (J). We are proposing to find that the current Arkansas SIP does not meet the infrastructure requirements for the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS and the 1997 and 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS at 110(a)(2) for portions of (C), (D)(ii), and (J) because the EPA-approved SIP prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) program does not apply to greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sources. We also are proposing to find that the current Arkansas SIP does not meet the infrastructure requirements for the 1997 and 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS at 110(a)(2) for portions of (C), (D)(ii), and (J) because Arkansas has not submitted the PSD SIP revision required by EPA's Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 Micrometers (73 FR 28321, May 16, 2008). Further, we are proposing to partially approve and partially disapprove the provisions of SIP submissions that emissions from sources in Arkansas do not interfere with measures required in the SIP of any other state under part C of the CAA to prevent significant deterioration of air quality, with regard to the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS and the 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS. The partial disapprovals herein are because Arkansas cannot issue permits for GHG emissions and because the State did not submit the required PM2.5 PSD SIP revision. Finally, for purposes of the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS, EPA is proposing to approve SIP revisions that modify the Arkansas PSD SIP to include nitrogen oxides (NOX) as an ozone precursor. This action is being taken under section 110 and part C of the Act. Finally, EPA is also proposing to make a correction to the attainment status table in 40 CFR 81.304 to accurately reflect the redesignation date of Crittenden County, Arkansas to attainment for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Not Available
1988-01-29
The Title I groundwater standards for inactive uranium mill tailings sites, which were promulgated on January 5, 1983, by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project, were remanded to the EPA on September 3, 1985, by the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court instructed the EPA to compile general groundwater standards for all Title I sites. On September 24, 1987, the EPA published proposed standards (52FR36000-36008) in response to the remand. This report includes an evaluation of the potential effects of the proposed EPA groundwater standards on the UMTRA Project,more » as well as a discussion of the DOE's position on the proposed standards. The report also contains and appendix which provides supporting information and cost analyses. In order to assess the impacts of the proposed EPA standards, this report summarizes the proposed EPA standards in Section 2.0. The next three sections assess the impacts of the three parts of the EPA standards: Subpart A considers disposal sites; Subpart B is concerned with restoration at processing sites; and Subpart C addresses supplemental standards. Section 6.0 integrates previous sections into a recommendations section. Section 7.0 contains the DOE response to questions posed by the EPA in the preamble to the proposed standards. 6 refs., 5 figs., 3 tabs.« less
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Report: EPA Has Not Fully Implemented a National Emergency Response Equipment Tracking System
Report #11-P-0616, September 13, 2011. Although EPA spent $2.8 million as of October 2010 to develop and implement an EMP emergency equipment tracking module, EPA has not fully implemented the module, and the module suffers from operational issues.
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76 FR 508 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Idaho
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-01-05
... Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Idaho AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Idaho State Implementation Plan (SIP) that were submitted to EPA by the State of Idaho on April 16, 2007. This SIP submittal includes new and...
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40 CFR 52.1031 - EPA-approved Maine regulations.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 4 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false EPA-approved Maine regulations. 52.1031... (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) Maine § 52.1031 EPA-approved Maine... EPA as revisions to the Maine State Implementation Plan. This table is for informational purposes only...
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40 CFR 52.1031 - EPA-approved Maine regulations.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 4 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false EPA-approved Maine regulations. 52.1031... (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) Maine § 52.1031 EPA-approved Maine... EPA as revisions to the Maine State Implementation Plan. This table is for informational purposes only...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-16
...EPA is making two determinations regarding the Philadelphia- Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE fine particulate (PM2.5) nonattainment area (the Philadelphia Area). First, EPA is making a determination that the Philadelphia Area has attained the 1997 annual PM2.5 national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) by its attainment date of April 5, 2010. This determination is based upon quality assured and certified ambient air monitoring data that show the area monitored attainment of the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS for the 2007-2009 monitoring period. Second, EPA is making a clean data determination, finding that the Philadelphia Area has attained the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS, based on quality assured and certified ambient air monitoring data for the 2007-2009 and 2008-2010 monitoring periods. In accordance with EPA's applicable PM2.5 implementation rule, this determination suspends the requirement for the Philadelphia Area to submit an attainment demonstration, reasonably available control measures/reasonably available control technology (RACM/RACT), a reasonable further progress (RFP) plan, and contingency measures related to attainment of the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS for so long as the area continues to attain the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS. These actions are being taken under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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76 FR 41561 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; 2007 South Coast PM2.5
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-14
...EPA is proposing to approve in part and disapprove in part state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by California to provide for attainment of the 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards in the Los Angeles-South Coast area (South Coast). These SIP revisions are the South Coast 2007 Air Quality Management Plan (South Coast 2007 AQMP) (revised 2011) and South Coast-related provisions of the 2007 State Strategy (revised 2009 and 2011). EPA is proposing to approve the emissions inventories; air quality modeling; reasonably available control measures/reasonably available control technology demonstration; the reasonable further progress and attainment demonstrations; and the transportation conformity motor vehicle emissions budgets. EPA is also proposing to grant California's request to extend the attainment deadline for the South Coast to April 5, 2015 and to approve commitments to measures and reductions by the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board. Finally, we are proposing to disapprove the SIP's contingency measures and to reject the assignment of 10 tpd of NOX reductions to the federal government. This proposed rule amends EPA's November 22, 2010 proposed rule (75 FR 91294) on the South Coast PM2.5 plan and 2007 State strategy.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-09
... requirements of Section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272... Technology for the 1997 8- Hour Ozone Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final... reasonably available control technology (RACT) for oxides of nitrogen (NO X ) and volatile organic compounds...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-21
... ensure that the structural components of each state's air quality management program are adequate to meet... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R07-OAR-2013-0208; FRL-9825-7] Approval and... Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-05
...-hour ozone standard in any area in the OTR. The State's submittals include detailed technical analyses... areas in the OTR. The State's technical analyses rely on several different techniques used to analyze... Maine's requests? Based on the ME DEP's technical analyses discussed above, EPA believes that the State...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-30
... health, especially children and adults who are active outdoors, and individuals with a pre-existing... Order Reviews I. What is the background of this action? In 1997, EPA revised the health-based NAAQS for... ozone standard based on scientific evidence demonstrating that ozone causes adverse health effects at...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-23
... Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) dated November 28, 2012... Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). Second, EPA is proposing to approve updated rules submitted by Ecology... emissions. II. Summary of SIP Revision Ecology's November 28, 2012 SIP revision contains two elements for...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-11
... Regulations (DCMR) for the Control of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) to meet the requirement to adopt reasonably available control technology (RACT) for sources as recommended by the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) model rules and EPA's Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) standards. On January 26, 2010 and...
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78 FR 74057 - Disapproval of State Implementation Plan Revisions; Clark County, Nevada
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-10
... technology-based standards should account for the practical realities of technology supports EPA's view that... section 110(a)(2)(A) through (M). In developing SIPs, states have broad authority to develop the mix of... a SIP must be met on a ``continuous'' basis, practical realities or circumstances may create...
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Battery condenser system PM2.5 emission factors and rates for cotton gins
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
This manuscript is part of a series of manuscripts that detail a project to characterize cotton gin emissions from the standpoint of stack and ambient sampling. The impetus behind the project was the 2006 EPA implementation of a more stringent standard for particulate matter less than or equal to 2....
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-27
...? A. Fine Particulate Standards and Regional Emission Controls B. Background for Indiana's PM 2.5... CAA. The maintenance plan, as revised in the May 26, 2011, submittal, assumes that control of power... replace existing power plant emission control requirements that would have resulted from EPA's Clean Air...
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75 FR 72719 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Idaho
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-26
..., provisions relating to Tier 1 operating permits, facility emissions cap, standards of performance of certain... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R10-OAR-2008-0482; FRL-9231-1] Approval and... Requirements 7/1/2002 for Tier II Operating Permits. 401 Tier II Operating Permit...... 4/6/2005 Except 401.01...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-19
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Regional Haze State Implementation Plan AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is approving the Delaware Regional Haze... visibility in mandatory Class I areas through a regional haze program. EPA is also approving this revision...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-17
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Louisiana; Revisions To Control Volatile Organic Compound...: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions for control... submitted to EPA on August 31, 2010. EPA is also proposing to approve a SIP revision for control of emission...
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Transforming an EPA QA/R-2 quality management plan into an ISO 9002 quality management system.
Kell, R A; Hedin, C M; Kassakhian, G H; Reynolds, E S
2001-01-01
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Emergency and Remedial Response (OERR) requires environmental data of known quality to support Superfund hazardous waste site projects. The Quality Assurance Technical Support (QATS) Program is operated by Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, Inc. to provide EPA's Analytical Operations Center (AOC) with performance evaluation samples, reference materials, on-site laboratory auditing capabilities, data audits (including electronic media data audits), methods development, and other support services. The new QATS contract awarded in November 2000 required that the QATS Program become ISO 9000 certified. In a first for an EPA contractor, the QATS staff and management successfully transformed EPA's QA/R-2 type Quality Management Plan into a Quality Management System (QMS) that complies with the requirements of the internationally recognized ISO 9002 standard and achieved certification in the United States, Canada, and throughout Europe. The presentation describes how quality system elements of ISO 9002 were implemented on an already existing quality system. The psychological and organizational challenges of the culture change in QATS' day-to-day operations will be discussed for the benefit of other ISO 9000 aspirants.
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76 FR 24475 - Adequacy Status of the Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, North Carolina 1997 Annual PM2.5
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-02
...In this notice, EPA is notifying the public of its finding that the nitrogen oxides (NOX) motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, North Carolina area (hereafter referred to as the ``Hickory Area'') maintenance plan for the 1997 annual PM2.5 standard, submitted on December 18, 2009, and supplemented on December 22, 2010, by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. EPA is also making an insignificance finding for direct fine particulate (PM2.5) through the transportation conformity adequacy process for the Hickory Area. The Hickory Area is comprised of the entire county of Catawba in North Carolina. On March 2, 1999, the District of Columbia Circuit Court ruled that submitted state implementation plans (SIPs) cannot be used for transportation conformity determinations until EPA has affirmatively found them adequate. As a result of EPA's finding, the Hickory Area must use the NOX MVEBs from the submitted maintenance plan and supplement for the Hickory Area for future conformity determinations. Additionally, as a result of this finding, the Hickory Area is not required to perform a regional emissions analysis for direct PM2.5 in future PM2.5 transportation conformity determinations for the 1997 annual PM2.5 standard.
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40 CFR 81.352 - American Samoa.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... standards Cannot be classified Better than national standards Whole State 1 X 1 EPA designation only... be classified Better than national standards Whole State 1 X 1 EPA designation only. American Samoa... primary standards Cannot be classified or better than national standards Whole State 1 X 1 EPA designation...
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State Implementation Plans (SIP): Submissions that EPA has Found Adequate or Inadequate
EPA/OTAQ’s State and Local Transportation Resources are for air quality and transportation government and community leaders. Information on state implementation plans (SIPs) that EPA has found either adequate or inadequate is provided here.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-23
... of Attainment for the 2006 24-Hour Fine Particle Standard AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency... period for a proposed rule published April 24, 2012 (77 FR 24436). On April 24, 2012, EPA proposed to approve a determination of attainment for the Milwaukee-Racine, Wisconsin area for the 2006 24-hour fine...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-09
... 8-hour ozone standard, which is the case for the former Cleveland-Akron-Lorain moderate ozone... included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov... public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-08
...: EPA has determined that the Atlanta, Georgia, fine particulate (PM 2.5 ) nonattainment area (hereafter referred to as the ``Atlanta Area'' or ``Area'') has attained the 1997 annual average PM 2.5 national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and, additionally, that the Area has attained the 1997 annual PM 2.5...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-07
... not be construed as explicit or implicit reapproval of any existing provisions that relate to these... perform function vested by law. ORS 468A.025 ``Air Purity Standards'' provides the EQC with authority to... available to EPA upon request. Oregon's submittal: Oregon references ORS 468.035(a-e, m) ``Functions of the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-02
... Ada County Air Quality Maintenance Area will maintain air quality standards for carbon monoxide (CO... Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101. Hand Delivery/Courier: U.S. EPA Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite... deliveries are only accepted during normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-12
... monoxide (CO) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). This limited maintenance plan (LMP) addresses maintenance of the CO NAAQS for a second 10-year period beyond the original redesignation. This action is... Program, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode 8P-AR, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129. Hand Delivery...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-01-07
... standard would be more protective of human health, especially children and adults who are active outdoors... 1997, EPA revised the health-based NAAQS for ozone, setting it at 0.08 parts per million (ppm) averaged... that ozone causes adverse health effects at lower ozone concentrations and over longer periods of time...
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In response to the Beach Act, the U.S. EPA has developed a quantitative PCR (qPCR) method for enterococci that meets requirements for rapid, risk-based water quality assessments of recreational waters. Widespread implementation of this method will require that different laborator...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-24
... Container rule as an ozone control strategy from the Texas SIP for the Control of Ozone Air Pollution. In the submittal, Texas demonstrates that Federal portable fuel container standards promulgated by EPA in... Portable Fuel Container Regulations IV. What is the effect of this action? V. Final Action VI. Statutory...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-22
...: The commenter supported EPA's efforts to require ozone monitoring in Utah's Uinta Basin. However, the... air quality in the basin is not in compliance with the ozone standard,'' to designate the Uinta Basin... commenter refers to. For a discussion of other monitoring data in the Uinta Basin, see the response to...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-16
... Section of this Federal Register, EPA is approving the State's implementation plan revision as a direct... Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Georgia; State Implementation Plan Miscellaneous Revisions AGENCY... State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to EPA in...
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Implementing EPA Method 537 | Science Inventory | US EPA
This presentation describes EPA Method 537 for the analysis of 14 perfluorinated alkyl acids in drinking water as well as the challenges associated with preparing a laboratory for analysis using Method 537. The impact of this presentation is to provide the scientific community with an introduction to EPA Method 537 and to provide suggestions on implementing this method in laboratories.
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BIOREMEDIATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES: PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO IMPLEMENTATION (EPA/625/K-96/001)
This document contains abstracts and slide hardcopy for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) "Seminar Series on Bioremediation of Hazardous Waste Sites: Practical Approaches to Implementation." This technology transfer seminar series, sponsored by EPA's Biosystems ...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-09
...EPA is approving in part and disapproving in part state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by California to provide for attainment of the 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards in the Los Angeles-South Coast area (South Coast). These SIP revisions are the South Coast 2007 Air Quality Management Plan (South Coast 2007 AQMP) (revised 2011) and South Coast-related provisions of the 2007 State Strategy (revised 2009 and 2011). EPA is approving the emissions inventory; reasonably available control measures/reasonably available control technology demonstration; the reasonable further progress and attainment demonstrations and associated air quality modeling; and the transportation conformity motor vehicle emissions budgets. EPA is also granting California's request to extend the attainment deadline for the South Coast to April 5, 2015 and approving commitments to measures and reductions by the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board. Finally, we are disapproving the SIP's contingency measures and issuing a protective finding under 40 CFR 93.120(a)(3), and we are rejecting the assignment of 10 tons per day (tpd) of nitrogen oxide (NOX) reductions to the federal government.
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40 CFR 131.22 - EPA promulgation of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 21 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false EPA promulgation of water quality standards. 131.22 Section 131.22 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Procedures for Review and Revision of Water Quality Standards § 131.22 EPA promulgation of water quality...
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40 CFR 131.22 - EPA promulgation of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 22 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false EPA promulgation of water quality standards. 131.22 Section 131.22 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Procedures for Review and Revision of Water Quality Standards § 131.22 EPA promulgation of water quality...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-24
... volatile organic compounds and ammonia are not PM 2.5 precursors, as subpart 4 expressly governs precursor... developed for the RIA for the 2012 PM 2.5 NAAQS. NH 3 increases are due to some (~5%) increase in fertilizer... annual PM 2.5 standard. III. Ammonia and Volatile Organic Compound Comprehensive Emissions Inventory EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-04
...'') section 110(k)(3), EPA is approving a maintenance plan for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard (``San Diego 8-hour maintenance plan'') for the San Diego County 1997 ozone nonattainment area (``San Diego 8-hour... maintenance plan is included in a document titled Redesignation Request and Maintenance Plan for the 1997...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-09
... Ms. Gobeail McKinley, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Geographic Strategies Group, Mail... and the U.S. Region II, 290 Broadway, 25th Floor, New Virgin Islands. York, NY 10007-1866. Cristina... Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. EPA is making a finding of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-03
... indicate that these areas continue to attain the NAAQS. Under the provisions of 40 CFR 51.918, these latter... NAAQ, the basis for the suspension of the requirements for that area, provided by 40 CFR 51.918, would... section 51.918, EPA's determination that the area is currently attaining the standard based on the most...
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Report #12-P-0362, March 21, 2012. Region 4 took actions to implement all recommendations made in EPA OIG Report No. 10-P-0130, EPA Activities Provide Limited Assurance of the Extent of Contamination and Risk at a North Carolina Hazardous Waste Site.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-29
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R07-OAR-2013-0482; FRL 9900-40-Region 7] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri; St. Louis Area Transportation Conformity Requirements AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-23
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R02-OAR-2009-0462, FRL-9178-5] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New York Reasonably Available Control Technology and Reasonably Available Control Measures AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-24
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2010-0009; FRL-9115-8] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Opacity Source Surveillance Methods AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve the State...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-08
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R06-OAR-2007-0993; FRL-9134-7] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Interstate Transport of Pollution AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve this State...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-12
...The EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving a revision to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan (SIP) intended to address the regional haze (RH) requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act). In addition, EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving the portion of the Arkansas Interstate Transport SIP submittal that addresses the visibility requirement of section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) for the 1997 8-hour ozone and 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) that the Arkansas SIP contain adequate provisions to prohibit emissions from interfering with measures required in another state to protect visibility. EPA is approving certain core elements of the RH SIP including: identification of affected Class I areas; determination of baseline and natural visibility conditions; determination of Uniform Rate of Progress (URP); reasonable progress goal (RPG) consultation and long term strategy (LTS) consultation; coordination of RH and reasonably attributable visibility impairment (RAVI); regional haze monitoring strategy and other SIP requirements under 40 CFR 51.308(d)(4); commitment to submit periodic regional haze SIP revisions and periodic progress reports describing progress towards the RPGs; commitment to make a determination of the adequacy of the existing SIP at the time a progress report is submitted; and consultation and coordination with Federal land managers (FLMs). EPA is partially approving and partially disapproving portions of other core elements of the SIP including: identification of best available retrofit technology (BART) eligible sources and subject to BART sources; requirements for BART; Chapter 15 of the Air Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (APCEC) Regulation No. 19, also known as the State's RH Rule; and the LTS. EPA is disapproving Arkansas's reasonable progress goals (RPGs) required under 40 CFR 51.308(d)(1). This action is being taken under section 110 and part C of the CAA.
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This is the enforcement alert for Hazardous Waste Management Practices at Mineral Processing Facilities Under Scrutiny by U.S. EPA; EPA Clarifies 'Bevill Exclusion' Wastes and Establishes Disposal Standards
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IRIS Summary and Supporting Documents for Methylmercury ...
In January 2001, U.S. EPA finalized the guidance for methylmercury in the water quality criteria for states and authorized tribes. The links below take you to the best resources for this guidance. This final Guidance for Implementing the January 2001 Methylmercury Water Quality Criterion provides technical guidance to states and authorized tribes on how they may want to use the January 2001 fish tissue-based recommended water quality criterion for methylmercury in surface water protection programs (e.g., TMDLs, NPDES permitting). The guidance addresses questions related to water quality standards adoption (e.g., site-specific criteria, variances), assessments, monitoring, TMDLs, and NPDES permitting. The guidance consolidates existing EPA guidance where relevant to mercury.
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Development of EPA Protocol Information Enquiry Service System Based on Embedded ARM Linux
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Peng, Daogang; Zhang, Hao; Weng, Jiannian; Li, Hui; Xia, Fei
Industrial Ethernet is a new technology for industrial network communications developed in recent years. In the field of industrial automation in China, EPA is the first standard accepted and published by ISO, and has been included in the fourth edition IEC61158 Fieldbus of NO.14 type. According to EPA standard, Field devices such as industrial field controller, actuator and other instruments are all able to realize communication based on the Ethernet standard. The Atmel AT91RM9200 embedded development board and open source embedded Linux are used to develop an information inquiry service system of EPA protocol based on embedded ARM Linux in this paper. The system is capable of designing an EPA Server program for EPA data acquisition procedures, the EPA information inquiry service is available for programs in local or remote host through Socket interface. The EPA client can access data and information of other EPA equipments on the EPA network when it establishes connection with the monitoring port of the server.
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EPA Region 7 and Four States Water Quality Standards Review Process Kaizen Event Case Study
In June, 2007, participants from EPA headquarters, EPA Region 7, and the four States in EPA Region 7 (IA, KS, MO, and NE) conducted a Lean business kaizen event on the EPA–State process for developing and revising water quality standards (WQS).
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GEO-CAPE Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics White Paper ...
The Clean Water Act protects all navigable waters in the United States (CWA, 1988). The objective of the CWA is to "restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters." This Federal mandate authorizes states, tribes, and U.S. territories, with guidance and oversight from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to develop and implement water quality standards to protect the human and aquatic life uses of the Nation’s waterways. Water quality standards include designated uses, defined as the services that a water body supports such as drinking water, aquatic life, harvestable species, and recreation. These standards under the CWA Section 304(a) are applicable within state waters, defined as less than 3 nautical miles from shore. Therefore, a majority of research by the EPA addresses near-shore coastal waters within 3 nautical miles, estuaries and lakes where applicable water quality regulation could be implemented. Policy makers and environmental managers in EPA’s program and regional offices need tools enabling them to assess the sustainability of watershed ecosystems, and the services they provide, under current and future land use practices. The typical 1km resolution and current Case 1 algorithms of SeaWiFS, MODIS, and VIIRS provide limited assessments of near-shore coastal waters, estuaries and lakes. It has proven difficult to adequately resolve and derive products in smaller estuaries or waters in proxim
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40 CFR 6.406 - Implementation.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions § 6.406 Implementation. (a) Oversight. OFA is responsible for...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-22
...The EPA is taking final action to promulgate a Reservation- specific Federal Implementation Plan in order to regulate emissions from oil and natural gas production facilities located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The Federal Implementation Plan includes basic air quality regulations for the protection of communities in and adjacent to the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The Federal Implementation Plan requires owners and operators of oil and natural gas production facilities to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds emanating from well completions, recompletions, and production and storage operations. This Federal Implementation Plan will be implemented by the EPA, or a delegated tribal authority, until replaced by a Tribal Implementation Plan. The EPA proposed a Reservation-specific Federal Implementation Plan concurrently with an interim final rule on August 15, 2012. This final Federal Implementation Plan replaces the interim final rule in all intents and purposes on the effective date of the final rule. The EPA is taking this action pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA).
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-28
... long as this area continues to meet the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS. Subpart V--Maryland 0 4. Section 52... standard for as long as this area continues to meet the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS. 0 5. Section 52.1082 is... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2010-0986; FRL-9634-6] Approval and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-23
... on the basis that they have a negligible contribution to tropospheric formation of ozone.\\17\\ EPA has... changes. \\17\\ Tropospheric ozone, commonly known as smog, occurs when VOC and nitrogen oxide (NO X ) react... for PM 2.5, PM 10 , ozone and lead that are found at Regulation 61.62-5, Standard No. 2. The four SIP...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-24
... these applicable requirements until the area attains the 1997 8-hour NAAQS. 40 CFR 51.905(b... nonattainment NSR in SIPs.\\5\\ Also, EPA is proposing to amend Sec. 51.905(a)(3), which details how areas... treatment of such areas. As explained previously, 51.905(a)(3) allows 1997 8-hour NAAQS attainment areas...
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Report #09-P-0087, January 27, 2009. EPA has progressed in implementing the counter terrorism/emergency response (CT/ER) initiatives, but is behind schedule in implementing the Radiation Ambient Monitoring (RadNet) System.
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40 CFR 131.21 - EPA review and approval of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... Act remains the applicable standard until EPA approves a change, deletion, or addition to that water... 40 Protection of Environment 23 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false EPA review and approval of water... (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Procedures for Review and Revision of Water Quality...
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40 CFR 131.21 - EPA review and approval of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... Act remains the applicable standard until EPA approves a change, deletion, or addition to that water... 40 Protection of Environment 22 2014-07-01 2013-07-01 true EPA review and approval of water... (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Procedures for Review and Revision of Water Quality...
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40 CFR 131.21 - EPA review and approval of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... Act remains the applicable standard until EPA approves a change, deletion, or addition to that water... 40 Protection of Environment 23 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA review and approval of water... (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Procedures for Review and Revision of Water Quality...
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40 CFR 131.21 - EPA review and approval of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... Act remains the applicable standard until EPA approves a change, deletion, or addition to that water... 40 Protection of Environment 22 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false EPA review and approval of water... (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Procedures for Review and Revision of Water Quality...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-23
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West Virginia; Regional Haze State Implementation Plan AGENCY... limited disapproval of West Virginia's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision. EPA is... mandatory Class I areas through a regional haze program. EPA is also approving this revision as meeting the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-25
... controls are enforced through the associated SIP rules or Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs). Any purchase... Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Georgia 110(a)(1) and (2) Infrastructure Requirements for the 1997 and... Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is taking final action to approve the State Implementation...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-28
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0920; FRL-9779-1] Revision to the California State Implementation Plan, South Coast Air Quality Management Plan AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve a revision to the South...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-20
... (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is finalizing approval of four Kansas State Implementation Plan... of proposed rulemaking for this action, which was published on April 17, 2013. DATES: This rule will... those portions in the April 17, 2013, proposed rule since they had already been acted upon by EPA. With...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-24
... under the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA is taking final action to approve state implementation plan (SIP... the background for this action? II. What action is EPA taking? III. Statutory and Executive Order... proposal to approve Indiana's state board provisions. II. What action is EPA taking? For the reasons...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-08
... Implementation Plan; Prevention of Significant Deterioration; California; North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is finalizing a limited Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management...
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78 FR 65590 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; Indiana PM2.5
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-01
...EPA is proposing to approve revisions to Indiana's state implementation plan as requested by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) to EPA on July 12, 2012, and December 12, 2012. The revisions to Indiana's state implementation plan (SIP) implement certain EPA regulations for particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) by establishing definitions related to PM2.5, defining PM2.5 increment levels, and setting PM2.5 class 1 variances. The revisions also incorporate definitions and regulations that recognize nitrogen oxides (NOX) as an ozone precursor.
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Setting Emissions Standards Based on Technology Performance
In setting national emissions standards, EPA sets emissions performance levels rather than mandating use of a particular technology. The law mandates that EPA use numerical performance standards whenever feasible in setting national emissions standards.
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An entrustable professional activity (EPA) for handoffs as a model for EPA assessment development.
Aylward, Michael; Nixon, James; Gladding, Sophia
2014-10-01
Medical education is moving toward assessment of educational outcomes rather than educational processes. The American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Pediatrics milestones and the concept of entrustable professional activities (EPA)--skills essential to the practice of medicine that educators progressively entrust learners to perform--provide new approaches to assessing outcomes. Although some defined EPAs exist for internal medicine and pediatrics, the continued development and implementation of EPAs remains challenging. As residency programs are expected to begin reporting milestone-based performance, however, they will need examples of how to overcome these challenges. The authors describe a model for the development and implementation of an EPA using the resident handoff as an example. The model includes nine steps: selecting the EPA, determining where skills are practiced and assessed, addressing barriers to assessment, determining components of the EPA, determining needed assessment tools, developing new assessments if needed, determining criteria for advancement through entrustment levels, mapping milestones to the EPA, and faculty development. Following implementation, 78% of interns at the University of Minnesota Medical School were observed giving handoffs and provided feedback. The authors suggest that this model of EPA development--which includes engaging stakeholders, an iterative process to describing the behavioral characteristics of each domain at each level of entrustment, and the development of specific assessment tools that support both formative feedback and summative decisions about entrustment--can serve as a model for EPA development for other clinical skills and specialty areas.
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Successful implementation of property cleanup under the Ohio and the Texas voluntary programs
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Roffman, A.
1999-07-01
Cleanups of two properties, one located in Ohio and the other in Texas were successfully implemented. The facilities were printing plants that manufactured printed material and forms for commercial and industrial use. Primary products and chemicals involved in the manufacturing of the forms included ink, petroleum products and cleaning solvents. The Ohio property underwent a successful cleanup under the Ohio EPA Voluntary Action Program (VAP). It met the Ohio EPA residential land use cleanup standards for soil and shallow groundwater. A No Further Action letter has been submitted to the state and it resulted in the issuance of a Covenantmore » Not to Sue. The Texas facility underwent a successful cleanup under the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP). It resulted in the issuance of a Certificate of Completion (COC) for residential land use for soil, and a conditional COC for industrial land use for the shallow groundwater.« less
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77 FR 24160 - Revisions to the Hawaii State Implementation Plan
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-23
... the Hawaii State Implementation Plan AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Hawaii State Implementation Plan (SIP... Hawaii SIP in 1983. DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by May 23, 2012. ADDRESSES: Submit...
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Hazardous Waste: EPA’s Generation and Management Data Need Further Improvement
1990-02-01
regulation published; System fully implemented inventory reporting system system partially implemented Page S0 GAO/PEMD403 E]PA’ Hardons Waste Data Need...the Page 75 GAO/PEMD4B3 EPA’s Hardons Waste Data Need Further Improvement ChSSW 4 Asuessmn t MmofN wNnO umbumma operating permit restricted the
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40 CFR 6.209 - Filing requirements for EPA EISs.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Filing requirements for EPA EISs. 6.209... IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS EPA's NEPA Environmental Review Procedures § 6.209 Filing requirements for EPA EISs. (a) The...
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EPA Announces Improvements to Keep Massachusetts Waters Clean
Today, US EPA announced a major step forward for Massachusetts’ water quality with improved stormwater management requirements as well as an array of training and implementation tools to assist municipalities with implementation.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-13
...EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) that establish the public participation requirements for air quality permits. EPA proposes to find that these revisions to the Texas SIP comply with the Federal Clean Air Act (the Act or CAA) and EPA regulations and are consistent with EPA policies. Texas submitted the public participation provisions in four separate revisions to the SIP on July 22, 1998; October 25, 1999; July 2, 2010; and March 11, 2011. EPA is proposing this action under section 110 and parts C and D of the Clean Air Act (the Act).
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Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... for Implementation of 8-hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard § 51.907 For an area that... 40 Protection of Environment 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false For an area that fails to attain the 8... the CAA? 51.907 Section 51.907 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED...
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Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... for Implementation of 8-hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard § 51.907 For an area that... 40 Protection of Environment 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false For an area that fails to attain the 8... the CAA? 51.907 Section 51.907 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED...
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Results and status of the NASA aircraft engine emission reduction technology programs
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Jones, R. E.; Diehl, L. A.; Petrash, D. A.; Grobman, J.
1978-01-01
The results of an aircraft engine emission reduction study are reviewed in detail. The capability of combustor concepts to produce significantly lower levels of exhaust emissions than present production combustors was evaluated. The development status of each combustor concept is discussed relative to its potential for implementation in aircraft engines. Also, the ability of these combustor concepts to achieve proposed NME and NCE EPA standards is discussed.
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40 CFR 52.1973 - Approval of plans.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
...) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) Oregon § 52.1973 Approval of plans. (a) Carbon monoxide. (1) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Second... December 27, 2004. (2) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Salem carbon...
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40 CFR 52.1973 - Approval of plans.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
...) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) Oregon § 52.1973 Approval of plans. (a) Carbon monoxide. (1) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Second... December 27, 2004. (2) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Salem carbon...
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40 CFR 52.1973 - Approval of plans.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
...) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) Oregon § 52.1973 Approval of plans. (a) Carbon monoxide. (1) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Second... December 27, 2004. (2) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Salem carbon...
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40 CFR 52.1973 - Approval of plans.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
...) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) Oregon § 52.1973 Approval of plans. (a) Carbon monoxide. (1) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Second... December 27, 2004. (2) EPA approves as a revision to the Oregon State Implementation Plan, the Salem carbon...
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40 CFR 52.672 - Approval of plans.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
...) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS Idaho § 52.672 Approval of plans. (a) Carbon Monoxide. (1) EPA approves as a revision to the Idaho State Implementation Plan, the Limited Maintenance Plan for.... [Reserved] (e) Particulate Matter. (1) EPA approves as a revision to the Idaho State Implementation Plan...
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EPA Announces Improvements to Keep New Hampshire Waters Clean
Today, US EPA announced a major step forward for New Hampshire’ water quality with improved stormwater management requirements as well as an array of training and implementation tools to assist municipalities with implementation.
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Baldauf, Rich W; Gabele, Pete; Crews, William; Snow, Richard; Cook, J Rich
2005-09-01
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented a program to identify tailpipe emissions of criteria and air-toxic contaminants from in-use, light-duty low-emission vehicles (LEVs). EPA recruited 25 LEVs in 2002 and measured emissions on a chassis dynamometer using the cold-start urban dynamometer driving schedule of the Federal Test Procedure. The emissions measured included regulated pollutants, particulate matter, speciated hydrocarbon compounds, and carbonyl compounds. The results provided a comparison of emissions from real-world LEVs with emission standards for criteria and air-toxic compounds. Emission measurements indicated that a portion of the in-use fleet tested exceeded standards for the criteria gases. Real-time regulated and speciated hydrocarbon measurements demonstrated that the majority of emissions occurred during the initial phases of the cold-start portion of the urban dynamometer driving schedule. Overall, the study provided updated emission factor data for real-world, in-use operation of LEVs for improved emissions modeling and mobile source inventory development.
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Emissions & Measurements - Black Carbon | Science ...
Emissions and Measurement (EM) research activities performed within the National Risk Management Research Lab NRMRL) of EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) support measurement and laboratory analysis approaches to accurately characterize source emissions, and near source concentrations of air pollutants. They also support integrated Agency research programs (e.g., source to health outcomes) and the development of databases and inventories that assist Federal, state, and local air quality managers and industry implement and comply with air pollution standards. EM research underway in NRMRL supports the Agency's efforts to accurately characterize, analyze, measure and manage sources of air pollution. This pamphlet focuses on the EM research that NRMRL researchers conduct related to black carbon (BC). Black Carbon is a pollutant of concern to EPA due to its potential impact on human health and climate change. There are extensive uncertainties in emissions of BC from stationary and mobile sources. Emissions and Measurement (EM) research activities performed within the National Risk Management Research Lab NRMRL) of EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD)
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-07
...EPA is proposing a regulation that would strengthen the controls on discharges from certain steam electric power plants by revising technology-based effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the steam electric power generating point source category. Steam electric power plants alone contribute 50-60 percent of all toxic pollutants discharged to surface waters by all industrial categories currently regulated in the United States under the Clean Water Act. Furthermore, power plant discharges to surface waters are expected to increase as pollutants are increasingly captured by air pollution controls and transferred to wastewater discharges. This proposal, if implemented, would reduce the amount of toxic metals and other pollutants discharged to surface waters from power plants. EPA is considering several regulatory options in this rulemaking and has identified four preferred alternatives for regulation of discharges from existing sources. These four preferred alternatives differ with respect to the scope of requirements that would be applicable to existing discharges of pollutants found in two wastestreams generated at power plants. EPA estimates that the preferred options for this proposed rule would annually reduce pollutant discharges by 0.47 billion to 2.62 billion pounds, reduce water use by 50 billion to 103 billion gallons, cost $185 million to $954 million, and would be economically achievable.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-12
...On June 24, 2008, the EPA promulgated amendments to the Standards of Performance for Petroleum Refineries and new standards of performance for petroleum refinery process units constructed, reconstructed or modified after May 14, 2007. The EPA subsequently received three petitions for reconsideration of these final rules. On September 26, 2008, the EPA granted reconsideration and issued a stay for the issues raised in the petitions regarding process heaters and flares. On December 22, 2008, the EPA addressed those specific issues by proposing amendments to certain provisions for process heaters and flares and extending the stay of these provisions until further notice. The EPA also proposed technical corrections to the rules for issues that were raised in the petitions for reconsideration. In this action, the EPA is finalizing those amendments and technical corrections and is lifting the stay of all the provisions granted on September 26, 2008 and extended until further notice on December 22, 2008.
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40 CFR 6.209 - Filing requirements for EPA EISs.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... Section 6.209 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GENERAL PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS EPA's NEPA Environmental Review Procedures § 6.209 Filing requirements for EPA EISs. (a) The...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-25
...-FRL-9754-7] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Massachusetts and New... (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP... repair network for an on-board diagnostic (OBD2) testing program for model year 1996 and newer vehicles...
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Moeller, Dade W
2009-11-01
The Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository is designed to contain spent nuclear fuel and vitrified fission products. Due to the fact that it will be the first such facility constructed anywhere in the world, it has proved to be one in which multiple organizations, most prominently the U.S. Congress, are exercising a role. In addition to selecting a site for the facility, Congress specified that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) promulgate the associated Standards, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission establish applicable Regulations to implement the Standards, and the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) design, construct, and operate the repository. Congress also specified that U.S. EPA request that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) provide them guidance on the form and nature of the Standards. In so doing, Congress also stipulated that the Standards be expressed in terms of an "equivalent dose rate." As will be noted, this subsequently introduced serious complications. Due to the inputs of so many groups, and the fact that the NAS recommendations conflicted with the Congressional stipulation that the limits be expressed in terms of a dose rate, the outcome is a set of Standards that not only does not comply with the NAS recommendations, but also is neither integrated, nor consistent. The initial goals of this paper are to provide an independent risk/dose analysis for each of the eight radionuclides that are to be regulated, and to evaluate them in terms of the Standards. These efforts reveal that the Standards are neither workable nor capable of being implemented. The concluding portions of the paper provide guidance that, if successfully implemented, would enable U.S. DOE to complete the construction of the repository and operate it in accordance with the recommendations of NAS while, at the same time, provide a better, more accurate, understanding of its potential risks to the public. This facility is too important to the U.S. nuclear energy program to be impeded by inappropriate Standards and unnecessary regulatory restrictions. As will be noted, the sources of essentially all of the recommendations suggested in this paper were derived through applications of the principles of good science, and the benefits of "thinking outside the box."
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Setting and Reviewing Standards to Control SO2 Pollution
EPA sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for SO2 to protect public health (primary standard) and to protect public welfare (secondary standard). The Clean Air Act also requires EPA to periodically review and revise them if appropriate.
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Setting and Reviewing Standards to Control NO2 Pollution
EPA sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NO2 to protect public health (primary standard) and to protect public welfare (secondary standard). The Clean Air Act also requires EPA to periodically review and revise them if appropriate.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
None
1996-10-01
This programmatic environmental impact statement (PElS) was prepared for the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Ground Water Project to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This PElS provides an analysis of the potential impacts of the alternatives and ground water compliance strategies as well as potential cumulative impacts. On November 8, 1978, Congress enacted the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) of 1978, Public Law, codified at 42 USC §7901 et seq. Congress found that uranium mill tailings " ... may pose a potential and significant radiation health hazard to the public, and that every reasonablemore » effort should be made to provide for stabilization, disposal, and control in a safe, and environmentally sound manner of such tailings in order to prevent or minimize other environmental hazards from such tailings." Congress authorized the Secretary of Energy to designate inactive uranium processing sites for remedial action by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Congress also directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set the standards to be followed by the DOE for this process of stabilization, disposal, and control. On January 5, 1983, EPA published standards (40 CFR Part 192) for the disposal and cleanup of residual radioactive materials. On September 3, 1985, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit set aside and remanded to EPA the ground water provisions of the standards. The EPA proposed new standards to replace remanded sections and changed other sections of 40 CFR Part 192. These proposed standards were published in the Federal Register on September 24, 1987 (52 FR 36000). Section 108 of the UMTRCA requires that DOE comply with EPA's proposed standards in the absence of final standards. The Ground Water Project was planned under the proposed standards. On January 11, 1995, EPA published the final rule, with which the DOE must now comply. The PElS and the Ground Water Project are in accordance with the final standards. The EPA reserves the right to modify the ground water standards, if necessary, based on changes in EPA drinking water standards. Appendix A contains a copy of the 1983 EPA ground water compliance standards, the 1987 proposed changes to the standards, and the 1995 final rule. Under UMTRA, DOE is responsible for bringing the designated processing sites into compliance with the EPA ground water standards and complying with all other applicable standards and requirements. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must concur with DOE's actions. States are full participants in the process. The DOE also must consult with any affected Indian tribes and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Uranium processing activities at most of the inactive mill sites resulted in the contamination of ground water beneath and, in some cases, downgradient of the sites. This contaminated ground water often has elevated levels of constituents such as but not limited to uranium and nitrates. The purpose of the UMTRA Ground Water Project is to eliminate or reduce to acceptable levels the potential health and environmental consequences of milling activities by meeting the EPA ground water standards.« less
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-20
...The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) to address regional haze in the State of Montana. EPA developed this proposal in response to the State's decision in 2006 to not submit a regional haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision. EPA is proposing to determine that the FIP satisfies requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or ``the Act'') that require states, or EPA in promulgating a FIP, to assure reasonable progress towards the national goal of preventing any future and remedying any existing man-made impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas. In addition, EPA is also proposing to approve a revision to the Montana SIP submitted by the State of Montana through the Montana Department of Environmental Quality on February 17, 2012. The State's submittal contains revisions to the Montana Visibility Plan that includes amendments to the ``Smoke Management'' section, which adds a reference to Best Available Control Technology (BACT) as the visibility control measure for open burning as currently administered through the State's air quality permit program. This change was made to meet the requirements of the Regional Haze Rule. EPA will act on the remaining revisions in the State's submittal in a future action.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-18
...EPA is taking final action to approve a request submitted on December 18, 2009, and supplemented on December 22, 2010, from the State of North Carolina, through the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NC DENR), Division of Air Quality (DAQ), to redesignate the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point fine particulate matter (PM2.5) nonattainment area (hereafter the ``Greensboro Area'' or ``Area'') to attainment for the 1997 Annual PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The Greensboro Area is comprised of Davidson and Guilford Counties in their entireties. EPA's approval of the redesignation request is based on the determination that the State of North Carolina has met the criteria for redesignation to attainment set forth in the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act), including the determination that the Greensboro Area has attained the 1997 Annual PM2.5 NAAQS by its applicable attainment date of April 5, 2010. Additionally, EPA is approving a revision to the North Carolina State Implementation Plan (SIP) to include the 1997 Annual PM2.5 maintenance plan for the Greensboro Area that contains the new 2011 and 2021 motor vehicle emission budgets (MVEBs) for nitrogen oxides (NOX) and PM2.5 for both Davidson and Guilford Counties. This action also approves the emissions inventory submitted with the maintenance plan. Further, EPA is correcting a typographical error for the citation associated with a previous adequacy finding the Agency made for the NOX and PM2.5 MVEBs for both Davidson and Guilford Counties.
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40 CFR 80.93 - Individual baseline submission and approval.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... of its individual baseline to EPA (Fuel Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Submission, U.S. EPA... Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Petition, U.S. EPA, 2565 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105..., used in the determination of a given fuel parameter; (iii) Identification of test method. If not per...
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40 CFR 80.93 - Individual baseline submission and approval.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... of its individual baseline to EPA (Fuel Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Submission, U.S. EPA... Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Petition, U.S. EPA, 2565 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105..., used in the determination of a given fuel parameter; (iii) Identification of test method. If not per...
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40 CFR 80.93 - Individual baseline submission and approval.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... of its individual baseline to EPA (Fuel Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Submission, U.S. EPA... Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Petition, U.S. EPA, 2565 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105..., used in the determination of a given fuel parameter; (iii) Identification of test method. If not per...
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40 CFR 80.93 - Individual baseline submission and approval.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... of its individual baseline to EPA (Fuel Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Submission, U.S. EPA... Studies and Standards Branch, Baseline Petition, U.S. EPA, 2565 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105..., used in the determination of a given fuel parameter; (iii) Identification of test method. If not per...
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In 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, revised its 1993 version of its traceability protocol for the assay and certification of compressed gas and permeation-device calibration standards. The protocol allows producers of...
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40 CFR 131.21 - EPA review and approval of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS WATER QUALITY STANDARDS Procedures for Review and Revision of Water Quality Standards § 131.21 EPA review and approval of water quality standards. (a) After the State submits its... analysis. (b) The Regional Administrator's approval or disapproval of a State water quality standard shall...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-21
...EPA is proposing to approve portions of two revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning the Permits for Specific Designated Facilities Program, also referred to as the FutureGen Program. EPA has determined that the portions of these SIP revisions specific to the FutureGen Program submitted on March 9, 2006 and July 2, 2010, comply with the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations and are consistent with EPA policies. This action is being taken under section 110 and parts C and D of the Act.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-08
... acknowledging that West Virginia's delegation of authority to implement and enforce NESHAP and NSPS had been... regulated facilities and the public of West Virginia's updated delegation of authority to implement and enforce NESHAP and NSPS, EPA is making available a copy of EPA's letter to West Virginia through this...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-10
... Virginia) a letter acknowledging that West Virginia's delegation of authority to implement and enforce... regulated facilities and the public of West Virginia's updated delegation of authority to implement and enforce NESHAP and NSPS, EPA is making available a copy of EPA's letter to West Virginia through this...
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Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 23 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false EPA review of State implementation of national primary drinking water regulations for lead and copper. 142.19 Section 142.19 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) WATER PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTATION Primar...
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Project #OA&E-FY18-0162, March 28, 2018. The OIG plans to begin preliminary research to evaluate the EPA's implementation and enforcement of the Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP).
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EPA Lead and Copper Rule State Response Documents
EPA recently sent letters to Governors and state environment and public health commissioners outlining specific steps to enhance oversight of LCR implementation. Below are the state responses to these letters EPA has received.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-13
...EPA is revising the format for materials submitted by the State of Nevada that are incorporated by reference (IBR) into the Nevada State Implementation Plan (SIP). The regulations affected by this format change have all been previously submitted by the State of Nevada and approved by EPA. This format revision will primarily affect the ``Identification of plan'' section, as well as the format of the SIP materials that will be available for public inspection at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center located at EPA Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the EPA Regional Office. EPA is also adding a table in the ``Identification of plan'' section which summarizes the approval actions that EPA has taken on the non-regulatory and quasi-regulatory portions of the Nevada SIP.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-30
...EPA and NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, are each proposing rules to establish a comprehensive Heavy-Duty National Program that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase fuel efficiency for on-road heavy-duty vehicles, responding to the President's directive on May 21, 2010, to take coordinated steps to produce a new generation of clean vehicles. NHTSA's proposed fuel consumption standards and EPA's proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions standards would be tailored to each of three regulatory categories of heavy-duty vehicles: Combination Tractors; Heavy-Duty Pickup Trucks and Vans; and Vocational Vehicles, as well as gasoline and diesel heavy-duty engines. EPA's proposed hydrofluorocarbon emissions standards would apply to air conditioning systems in tractors, pickup trucks, and vans, and EPA's proposed nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions standards would apply to all heavy-duty engines, pickup trucks, and vans. EPA is also requesting comment on possible alternative CO2-equivalent approaches for model year 2012-14 light-duty vehicles. EPA's proposed greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act would begin with model year 2014. NHTSA's proposed fuel consumption standards under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 would be voluntary in model years 2014 and 2015, becoming mandatory with model year 2016 for most regulatory categories. Commercial trailers would not be regulated in this phase of the Heavy- Duty National Program, although there is a discussion of the possibility of future action for trailers.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-23
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2012-0042; FRL-9702-2] Approval and... Printing Regulations AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is... Technology (RACT) for sources covered by EPA's Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) for offset lithographic...
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75 FR 44930 - Stakeholder Input; Revisions to Water Quality Standards Regulation
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-30
... Input; Revisions to Water Quality Standards Regulation AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency. ACTION... national rulemaking to make a limited set of targeted changes to EPA's water quality standards regulation... rulemaking, and to hear views from the public regarding possible changes to EPA's water quality standards...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-20
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2011-0925; FRL- 9619-6] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; Nonattainment New Source Review Rules AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [[Page 2938
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EPA Solicits Proposals for the Field Implementation Meeting Support Cooperative Agreement
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs is soliciting applications for cooperative agreements to manage a Field Implementation Meetings Support program. EPA expects to provide up to $500,000 annually, depending on the Agency’s budget, for a total of
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Project #OMS-FY11-0006 and #OMS-FY12-0004, January 26, 2012. On February 7, 2011 the EPA's OIG began preliminary research on the audit of EPA’s Implementation of the Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Regulation (CROMERR).
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Policy and Procedures for Managing Dual Use Research of Concern
The DURC and iDURC Policies require all federal departments and agencies that conduct life sciences research to implement their provisions. EPA Order 1000.19, Policy and Procedures for Managing Dual Use Research of Concern, implements both policies at EPA.
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78 FR 54517 - Water Quality Standards Regulatory Clarifications
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-04
... 131 Water Quality Standards Regulatory Clarifications; Proposed Rule #0;#0;Federal Register / Vol. 78... AGENCY 40 CFR Part 131 [EPA-HQ-OW-2010-0606; FRL-9839-7] RIN 2040-AF 16 Water Quality Standards... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing changes to the federal water quality standards (WQS...
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Pittenger, Amy L; Copeland, Debra A; Lacroix, Matthew M; Masuda, Quamrun N; Mbi, Peter; Medina, Melissa S; Miller, Susan M; Stolte, Scott K; Plaza, Cecilia M
2017-06-01
The purpose of this report is to: 1) Identify linkages across the EPA statements, Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education 2013 Educational Outcomes (CAPE 2013) and the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners' Pharmacist Patient Care Process (PPCP); 2) Provide ways EPA statements can be used to communicate core skills that are part of the entry-level pharmacist identity; 3) Suggest a potential roadmap for AACP members on how to implement EPA statements.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-30
...This action is another in a series of steps EPA is taking to implement the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program for greenhouse gas (GHG)-emitting sources. EPA is finalizing its proposed rulemaking to narrow its previous approval of State Implementation Plan (SIP) PSD programs in 24 states that apply to GHG-emitting sources. Specifically, EPA is withdrawing its previous approval of those programs to the extent they apply PSD to GHG-emitting sources below the thresholds in the final Tailoring Rule, which EPA promulgated by Federal Register notice dated June 3, 2010. Having narrowed its prior approval, EPA asks that each affected state withdraw from EPA consideration the part of its SIP that is no longer approved. The states for whose SIPs EPA is narrowing approval are: Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE OF MULTILABORATORY STUDIES WITHIN THE US EPA
Implementation of Quality Assurance on Multilaboratory Studies Within the U. S. EPA
Thomas J. Hughes1, Brenda Culpepper1, Nancy Adams2, and John Martinson3, 1National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), 2National Risk Management Research Laboratory... -
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-01
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Ohio; Oxides of Nitrogen Budget Trading Program; Technical... concerning 240 allowances under the Nitrogen Oxides Budget Trading Program added to the SIP by EPA rulemaking... EPA approve rule revisions [[Page 11083
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All projects planned and implemented under the EPA Dioxin Exposure Initiative (DEI) are required to have completed Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) EPA Order 5360.1 A2 states, All work funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that involves the ...
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76 FR 15266 - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants; Notice of Reconsideration
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-21
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 60 and 63 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0058; EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0790; EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0119; FRL- 9272-7] RIN 2060-AQ25; RIN 2060-AM44; RIN 2060-AO12 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants; Notice of Reconsideration AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) and the accompanying Federal Reference Method (FRM) for PM10 in 1987. The EPA revised the particle standards and FRM in 1997 to include PM2.5. In 2005, EPA...
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40 CFR 59.409 - Addresses of EPA Offices.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 6 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Addresses of EPA Offices. 59.409... National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Architectural Coatings § 59.409 Addresses of EPA... manufacturer or importer resides. These areas are indicated in the following list of EPA Regional Offices: EPA...
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40 CFR 59.409 - Addresses of EPA Offices.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 6 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Addresses of EPA Offices. 59.409... National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Architectural Coatings § 59.409 Addresses of EPA... manufacturer or importer resides. These areas are indicated in the following list of EPA Regional Offices: EPA...
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40 CFR 59.409 - Addresses of EPA Offices.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 6 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Addresses of EPA Offices. 59.409... National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Architectural Coatings § 59.409 Addresses of EPA... manufacturer or importer resides. These areas are indicated in the following list of EPA Regional Offices: EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-01
... the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District and Mojave Desert Quality Management District AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-11
... the California State Implementation Plan, Butte County Air Quality Management District and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Butte County Air Quality Management...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-20
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2010-0770; FRL-9466-5] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Requirements for Preconstruction Review, Prevention of Significant Deterioration AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-27
... (RACT) for sources covered by EPA's Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) for flexible packaging printing... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Adoption of Control Techniques Guidelines for Flexible Packaging Printing AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY...
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78 FR 66648 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Procedures for Stringency...
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-06
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R06-OAR-2010-0335; FRL-9902-50-Region 6] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Procedures for Stringency Determinations and Minor Permit Revisions for Federal Operating Permits AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
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78 FR 55234 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Procedures for Stringency...
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-10
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R06-OAR-2010-0335; FRL-9900-81-Region6] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Texas; Procedures for Stringency Determinations and Minor Permit Revisions for Federal Operating Permits AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
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76 FR 33651 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; ID
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-09
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R10-OAR-2007-0406, FRL-9316-7] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; ID AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule... provide the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) the regulatory authority to address regional...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-24
... the California State Implementation Plan, Placer County Air Pollution Control District and Ventura County Air Pollution Control District AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Placer County Air Pollution Control...
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THE U.S. EPA PROMULGATES NEW STANDARDS FOR FINE PARTICLES
This presentation will describe the following items: the process used by EPA to review the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particular Matter, indicator and levels for the new fine particle standards, important epidemiologic data establishing the need for new particulat...
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78 FR 68377 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Ohio; Ohio NOX
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-14
...On November 15, 2010, Ohio EPA submitted to EPA revisions to Ohio OAC 3745-14. EPA is proposing to approve these revisions under the Clean Air Act, which allows for Ohio's Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) NOX Ozone Season Trading Program rules to supersede Ohio's nitrogen oxides (NOX) State Implementation Plan (SIP) Call Budget Trading Program rules, but leave other requirements of the NOX SIP Call in place for units not covered by CAIR.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-15
...EPA and NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, are each finalizing rules to establish a comprehensive Heavy-Duty National Program that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption for on-road heavy-duty vehicles, responding to the President's directive on May 21, 2010, to take coordinated steps to produce a new generation of clean vehicles. NHTSA's final fuel consumption standards and EPA's final carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions standards are tailored to each of three regulatory categories of heavy-duty vehicles: Combination Tractors; Heavy-duty Pickup Trucks and Vans; and Vocational Vehicles. The rules include separate standards for the engines that power combination tractors and vocational vehicles. Certain rules are exclusive to the EPA program. These include EPA's final hydrofluorocarbon standards to control leakage from air conditioning systems in combination tractors, and pickup trucks and vans. These also include EPA's final nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions standards that apply to all heavy- duty engines, pickup trucks and vans. EPA's final greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act will begin with model year 2014. NHTSA's final fuel consumption standards under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will be voluntary in model years 2014 and 2015, becoming mandatory with model year 2016 for most regulatory categories. Commercial trailers are not regulated in this phase of the Heavy-Duty National Program. The agencies estimate that the combined standards will reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 270 million metric tons and save 530 million barrels of oil over the life of vehicles sold during the 2014 through 2018 model years, providing over $7 billion in net societal benefits, and $49 billion in net societal benefits when private fuel savings are considered. EPA is also finalizing provisions allowing light-duty vehicle manufacturers to use CO2 credits to meet the light-duty vehicle N2O and CH4 standards, technical amendments to the fuel economy provisions for light-duty vehicles, and a technical amendment to the criteria pollutant emissions requirements for certain switch locomotives.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-01
...EPA proposes to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the purpose of incorporating the Commonwealth's Diesel-Powered Motor Vehicle Idling Act (Act 124 of 2008, or simply Act 124) into the Pennsylvania SIP. Act 124, passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and signed into state law by Governor Rendell in October 2008 (and effective at the state level in February 2009), reduces the allowable time that heavy-duty, commercial highway diesel vehicles of over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight can idle their main propulsion engines. The law restricts idling of these commercial diesel vehicles (mostly heavy trucks and buses) to a period of 5 minutes per continuous 60 minute period (with certain allowable exemptions and exclusions). Act 124 applies statewide in the Commonwealth, and is estimated by Pennsylvania to significantly reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and fine particulate matter (PM). While idle time emissions limits are not mandatory under the Clean Air Act (CAA), incorporation of Act 124 into the SIP does strengthen the SIP, makes the state law federally enforceable by EPA, and allows the Commonwealth to take credit for emissions benefits from the rule as part of future Pennsylvania SIP revisions to demonstrate compliance with CAA National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). This action is being taken under the CAA. In the Final Rules section of this Federal Register, EPA is approving the Commonwealth's SIP submittal as a direct final rule without prior proposal because EPA views this as a noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final rule. If no adverse comments are received in response to this action, no further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and all public comments received will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on this proposed rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period. Any parties interested in commenting on this action should do so at this time.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-18
...EPA is taking final action to approve a request submitted on December 18, 2009, and supplemented on December 22, 2010, from the State of North Carolina, through the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NC DENR), Division of Air Quality (DAQ), to redesignate the Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir fine particulate matter (PM2.5) nonattainment area (hereafter the ``Hickory Area'' or ``Area'') to attainment for the 1997 Annual PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The Hickory Area is comprised of Catawba County in its entirety. EPA's approval of the redesignation request is based on the determination that the State of North Carolina has met the criteria for redesignation to attainment set forth in the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act), including the determination that the Hickory Area has attained the 1997 Annual PM2.5 NAAQS by its applicable attainment date of April 5, 2010. Additionally, EPA is approving a revision to the North Carolina State Implementation Plan (SIP) to include the 1997 Annual PM2.5 maintenance plan for the Hickory Area that contains the new motor vehicle emission budgets (MVEBs) for nitrogen oxides (NOX) for the years 2011 and 2021 for Catawba County and the mobile insignificance determination for direct PM2.5 for the Hickory Area. This action also approves the emissions inventory submitted with the maintenance plan. Further, EPA is correcting a typographical error for the citation associated with a previous adequacy determination the Agency made for the NOX MVEBs for Catawba County and the mobile source insignificance determination for direct PM2.5 for the Hickory Area.
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77 FR 46298 - Phosphorus Water Quality Standards for Florida Everglades
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-03
... Phosphorus Water Quality Standards for Florida Everglades AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... Quality Standards for Phosphorus in the Everglades Protection Area (Phosphorus Rule) and Florida's Amended... deficiencies in the Phosphorus Rule and EFA. EPA's disapproval, specific directions to the State, and this rule...
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Results of the pollution reduction technology program for turboprop engines
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Mularz, E. J.
1976-01-01
A program was performed to evolve and demonstrate advanced combustor technology aimed at achieving the 1979 EPA standards for turboprop engines (Class P2). The engine selected for this program was the 501-D22A turboprop. Three combustor concepts were designed and tested in a combustor rig at the exact combustor operating conditions of the 50-D22A engine over the EPA landing-takeoff cycle. Each combustor concept exhibited pollutant emissions well below the EPA standards, achieving substantial reductions in unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and smoke emissions compared with emissions from the production combustor of this engine. Oxides of nitrogen emissions remained well below the EPA standards, also.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-05
... public docket without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov , including... public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends... additional information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-10
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R08-OAR-2009-0790; FRL-9114-3] Approval and...: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Direct final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is taking direct final action..., Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8, Mailcode 8P-AR, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-03
... below. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lo, EPA Region IX, (415) 972- 3959, lo[email protected] Meredith Kurpius, EPA Region 9, Air Quality Assessment Office, to Doris Lo, EPA Region 9, Air Planning... Officer, GBUAPCD, to Doris Lo, EPA Region 9, Air Planning Office, with attachments. The Coso Operating...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-13
... CSAPR mean or refer to the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. (iv) The words EPA, we, us or our mean or... Evaluation A. EPA's Approach for Evaluating Interstate Transport of Air Pollution B. EPA's Evaluation of...\\ Most recently, EPA published the final Cross State Air Pollution Rule (``CSAPR'' or ``Transport Rule...
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Comparison of US EPA and European emission standards for combustion and incineration technologies
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Licata, A.; Hartenstein, H.U.; Terracciano, L.
1997-12-01
There has been considerable debate, misunderstanding, and controversy when comparing emission standards used in Europe and the United States. One of the first questions you hear whenever U.S. EPA publishes a new emission standard is, {open_quotes}Is it as restrictive or is it the same as the German standard{close_quotes}. Although both systems of regulation call for the use of CEMS for compliance, there are substantial differences in how emission standards are structured in Europe and in the U.S. They include reference points, averaging times, sampling methods, and technology. Generally, the European standards tend to be more restrictive, due in part tomore » the fact that the facilities are of necessity sited in close proximity to residential areas. In Germany, for example, regulations in general are comprehensive and include both design standards and emission limits while U.S. EPA`s rules are source specific and, in most cases, limited to numerical emission standards. In some cases, comparisons can be made between emission standards and, in some cases, comparisons can only be made with restrictive caveats. The paper will present a comprehensive overview of the emission standards and how they are applied.« less
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40 CFR 1060.102 - What permeation emission control requirements apply for fuel lines?
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... handheld Small SI engines installed in cold-weather equipment must meet the standards for EPA Cold-Weather... when measured according to the test procedure described in § 1060.515. (3) EPA Cold-Weather Fuel Lines... described in § 1060.515: Table 1 to § 1060.102—Permeation Standards for EPA Cold-Weather Fuel Lines Model...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-22
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 60 and 63 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0058; EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0790; EPA-HQ-OAR-2003-0119; FRL- 9178-2] RIN 2060-AG69, RIN 2060-AM44, RIN 2060-AO12 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-24
... Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Georgia; Atlanta; Ozone 2002 Base Year Emissions Inventory AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve the ozone... (hereafter referred to as ``the Atlanta Area'' or ``Area''), ozone attainment demonstration that was...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-04
... Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New York Reasonably Available Control Technology and Reasonably Available... 25, 2009, the EPA proposed to disapprove portions of a proposed revision to the New York State.... Specifically, EPA proposed to disapprove New York's reasonably available control measure analysis and New York...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-27
... original Eastman BART determination and technical analysis provided in the State's April 4, 2008, SIP... EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification... the requirements for a BART alternative determination? III. What is EPA's analysis of Tennessee's May...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-06
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R03-OAR-2012-0381; FRL-9747-9] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Delaware; Requirements for Prevention of Significant...: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule; correcting amendment. SUMMARY: This document corrects...
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75 FR 64953 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-21
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R07-OAR-2010-0415; FRL-9210-3] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [email protected] . 3. Mail or Hand Delivery: Lachala Kemp, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Planning...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-27
... Retrofit Technology Requirements for Eastman Chemical Company AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is finalizing approval of the Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART... retrofitting its facility pursuant to the BART determination for SO 2 emissions (hereafter referred to as the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-27
... package printing entitled ``Control Techniques Guidelines for Flexible Package Printing'' (Publication No... adoption of the EPA CTG for flexible packaging printing. EPA develops CTGs as guidance on control... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Adoption of Control Techniques Guidelines for...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-22
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2011-0467; EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0538; FRL-9808-9] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Wisconsin; Prevention of Significant Deterioration Greenhouse Gas Tailoring and Biomass Deferral Rule AGENCY: Environmental Protection...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-01
... the California State Implementation Plan, Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District and Imperial County Air Pollution Control District AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is finalizing approval of revisions to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution...
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76 FR 27973 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-13
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2010-0999; FRL-9304-9] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION..., Control Strategies Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5...
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77 FR 41954 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-17
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0406; FRL-9699-2] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION..., Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard...
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78 FR 8485 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Michigan
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-06
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Michigan AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... control), R336.1240 (Required air quality models), R336.1241 (Air quality modeling demonstration... nonattainment air quality permitting regulations found in 40 CFR 51.165(a) and (b). EPA has found that the rules...
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Legal and institutional aspects of regulating intermedia pollution
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Entman, R.M.
1980-05-01
Intermedia pollution is defined here as the creation of new environmental impacts by controlling existing ones. DOE asked four questions: (1) do the major environmental laws address intermedia pollution; (2) does the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have rules, regulations, and procedures through which it considers intermedia questions; (3) do the legislative histories of the laws indicate whether Congress intended for the EPA to consider intermedia issues; and (4) in what ways do the existing laws and regulatory procedures exacerbate intermedia pollution. The answer to the first three questions is yes; much of this report is devoted to amplifying and qualifyingmore » that response, the rest to answering the fourth question. The report frames these issues by asking how we can control the adverse environmental i.e., intermedia, impacts of EPA itself. A case study of the intermedia implications of recently issued air-pollution standards for coal-fired power plants illustrates the themes concretely. An analysis of policy alternatives for improving intermedia pollution control concludes the study. The major problems impending good intermedia policy decisions are: conflicts among and failures fully to implement environmental laws; political pressures; tendencies of EPA to minimize the adverse environmental consequences of its own actions; uncertainties caused by the rudimentary scientific understanding of intermedia pollution; and limitations on EPA's organizational ability to handle whatever complex intermedia information it does obtain. The final chapter assesses three policy responses to these problems: do nothing new; issue an incremental prod; and a new law and EPA suffice. Evaluation of these alternatives depends on how deficient current practices are thought to be.« less
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Recommendations on integrating children's health considerations into EPA's Action Development Process (ADP). Also how to identify economically significant actions, disproportionate risk, and developing the Analytical Blueprint.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-09
...EPA proposed on April 25, 2012 (77 FR 24794) to take action on a revision to the state implementation plan (SIP) addressing regional haze submitted by the State of New York. In that proposal, EPA proposed to address through a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) certain requirements not addressed in New York's regional haze SIP submission or, alternatively, to approve a substantively identical SIP revision by New York, should the State timely submit such a revision. In two letters dated April 16, 2012, New York submitted additional materials relevant to our proposed action on its regional haze SIP submission, including proposed SIP revisions addressing the requirements for best available retrofit technology controls (BART) for a number of sources. EPA is providing notice of availability of these materials. The comment period on EPA's proposed action on the New York regional haze SIP closes on June 18, 2010.
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75 FR 33712 - Withdrawal of the Emission-Comparable Fuel Exclusion Under RCRA
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-15
...) directs EPA to use voluntary consensus standards in its regulatory activities unless to do so would be inconsistent with applicable law or otherwise impractical. Voluntary consensus standards are technical... are developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies. NTTAA directs EPA to provide...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-28
...EPA is proposing a limited approval of a revision to the North Carolina state implementation plan (SIP) submitted by the State of North Carolina through the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Air Quality (NCDAQ), on December 17, 2007, that addresses regional haze for the first implementation period. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas (national parks and wilderness areas) caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA is proposing a limited approval of this SIP revision to implement the regional haze requirements for North Carolina on the basis that the revision, as a whole, strengthens the North Carolina SIP. In a separate action, EPA has proposed a limited disapproval of the North Carolina regional haze SIP because of deficiencies in the State's regional haze SIP submittal arising from the remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) to EPA of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). Consequently, EPA is not proposing to take action in this rulemaking to address the State's reliance on CAIR to meet certain regional haze requirements.
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College Readiness Standards[TM] for EXPLORE[R], PLAN[R], and the ACT[R]: Includes Ideas for Progress
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
ACT, Inc., 2008
2008-01-01
At the foundation of the Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) programs are ACT's College Readiness Standards. The Standards offer learning strategies that are likely to help students meet state standards and acquire the more advanced concepts associated with higher EPAS test scores and, more importantly, increased college readiness.…
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Withdrawal of the Direct Final Revisions Rule (77 FR 28785)
EPA issued ‘‘Revisions to Federal Implementation Plans To Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone’’ as a direct final rule on February 21, 2012. Because EPA received adverse comments on this action, EPA withdrew the rule.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-09
...EPA is announcing that it has withdrawn its May 30, 2008 adequacy finding of the 2010 particulate matter of ten microns or less (PM-10) motor vehicle emission budget (MVEB) for the Maricopa County (Phoenix) Nonattainment Area. EPA has withdrawn the May 30, 2008 adequacy finding because the State of Arizona withdrew the state implementation plan (SIP) submission containing that MVEB. That SIP revision is no longer pending before EPA. On January 31, 2011, EPA sent letters to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) withdrawing the May 30, 2008 adequacy finding of the 2010 PM-10 MVEB. EPA's withdrawal of its May 30, 2008 adequacy finding means that the 2010 PM-10 MVEB is no longer available for transportation conformity purposes.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-28
...EPA is proposing a limited approval of a revision to the Alabama state implementation plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Alabama through the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), on July 15, 2008, that addresses regional haze for the first implementation period. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas (national parks and wilderness areas) caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress towards the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA is proposing a limited approval of this SIP revision to implement the regional haze requirements for Alabama on the basis that the revision, as a whole, strengthens the Alabama SIP. Additionally, EPA is proposing to rescind the federal regulations previously approved into the Alabama SIP on November 24, 1987, and to rely on the provisions in Alabama's July 15, 2008, SIP submittal to meet the long-term strategy (LTS) requirements for reasonably attributable visibility impairment (RAVI). EPA has previously proposed a limited disapproval of the Alabama regional haze SIP because of deficiencies in the State's regional haze SIP submittal arising from the remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) to EPA of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). Consequently, EPA is not proposing to take action in this rulemaking to address the State's reliance on CAIR to meet certain regional haze requirements.
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40 CFR 131.22 - EPA promulgation of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... promulgation of water quality standards. (a) If the State does not adopt the changes specified by the Regional... 40 Protection of Environment 23 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false EPA promulgation of water quality standards. 131.22 Section 131.22 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) WATER...
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40 CFR 131.22 - EPA promulgation of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... promulgation of water quality standards. (a) If the State does not adopt the changes specified by the Regional... 40 Protection of Environment 22 2014-07-01 2013-07-01 true EPA promulgation of water quality standards. 131.22 Section 131.22 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) WATER...
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40 CFR 131.22 - EPA promulgation of water quality standards.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... promulgation of water quality standards. (a) If the State does not adopt the changes specified by the Regional... 40 Protection of Environment 23 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA promulgation of water quality standards. 131.22 Section 131.22 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) WATER...
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40 CFR 263.11 - EPA identification number.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 27 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false EPA identification number. 263.11... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO TRANSPORTERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 263.11 EPA identification number. (a) A transporter must not transport hazardous wastes without having received an EPA...
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40 CFR 263.11 - EPA identification number.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 27 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA identification number. 263.11... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO TRANSPORTERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 263.11 EPA identification number. (a) A transporter must not transport hazardous wastes without having received an EPA...
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40 CFR 263.11 - EPA identification number.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 25 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false EPA identification number. 263.11... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO TRANSPORTERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 263.11 EPA identification number. (a) A transporter must not transport hazardous wastes without having received an EPA...
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40 CFR 263.11 - EPA identification number.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 26 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false EPA identification number. 263.11... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO TRANSPORTERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 263.11 EPA identification number. (a) A transporter must not transport hazardous wastes without having received an EPA...
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40 CFR 263.11 - EPA identification number.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 26 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false EPA identification number. 263.11... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO TRANSPORTERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 263.11 EPA identification number. (a) A transporter must not transport hazardous wastes without having received an EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-16
... Ozone AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Withdrawal of direct final rule. SUMMARY... Particulate Matter and Ozone'' as a direct final rule on February 21, 2012. Because the EPA received adverse... Implementation Plans To Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone'' as a direct final rule...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-18
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R09-OAR-2011-0987; FRL-9617-5] Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District and Imperial... rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-16
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0394; FRL-9845-4] Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District and Ventura... rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-02
... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maryland; Removal of the 1980 Consent Order for the Maryland Slag Company AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA... issued to the Maryland Slag Company (now known as MultServ). The 1980 Consent Order is no longer required...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-15
... Implementation Plan (SIP); Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Texas PSD State... revision submitted July 16, 2010. This action makes no significant changes to the Texas PSD SIP; it merely...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-09
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R09-OAR-2007-1073; FRL-9292-4] Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Imperial County Air Pollution Control District (ICAPCD... has established docket number EPA-R09-OAR-2007-1073 for this action. Generally, documents in the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-09
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R09-OAR-2007-1073; FRL-9263-8] Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Imperial County Air Pollution Control District AGENCY... 11, 2011. ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR- 2007-1073, by one of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-03
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R06-OAR-2007-0993; FRL-9144-4] Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Interstate Transport of Pollution AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Withdrawal of direct final rule. SUMMARY: On April 8, 2010 (75 FR 17868...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-22
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R08-OAR-2011-0114; FRL-9771-9] Approval, Disapproval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Regional Haze Rule Requirements for Mandatory Class I Areas Under 40 CFR 51.309; Correction AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-19
..., 2009. These revisions incorporate provisions related to the implementation of nitrogen oxides (NO X... ozone nonattainment areas. EPA is approving SIP revisions that address the NO X RACT requirements found in the Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA is also approving other miscellaneous rule changes that affect NO X...
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EPA Geospatial Quality Council Strategic and Implementation Plan 2010 to 2015
The EPA Geospatial Quality Council (GQC) was created to promote and provide Quality Assurance guidance for the development, use, and products of geospatial science. The GQC was created when the gap between the EPA Quality Assurance (QA) and Geospatial communities was recognized. ...
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40 CFR 6.403 - Environmental review and assessment requirements.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions § 6.403 Environmental review... study. EPA shall afford the affected foreign nation or international body or organization an opportunity...
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40 CFR 6.403 - Environmental review and assessment requirements.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions § 6.403 Environmental review... study. EPA shall afford the affected foreign nation or international body or organization an opportunity...
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40 CFR 6.403 - Environmental review and assessment requirements.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions § 6.403 Environmental review... study. EPA shall afford the affected foreign nation or international body or organization an opportunity...
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40 CFR 6.403 - Environmental review and assessment requirements.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions § 6.403 Environmental review... study. EPA shall afford the affected foreign nation or international body or organization an opportunity...
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40 CFR 6.403 - Environmental review and assessment requirements.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA ACTIONS Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions § 6.403 Environmental review... study. EPA shall afford the affected foreign nation or international body or organization an opportunity...
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40 CFR 262.12 - EPA identification numbers.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 26 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false EPA identification numbers. 262.12... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO GENERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 262.12 EPA identification numbers... waste without having received an EPA identification number from the Administrator. (b) A generator who...
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40 CFR 262.12 - EPA identification numbers.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 25 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false EPA identification numbers. 262.12... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO GENERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 262.12 EPA identification numbers... waste without having received an EPA identification number from the Administrator. (b) A generator who...
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40 CFR 262.12 - EPA identification numbers.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 27 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA identification numbers. 262.12... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO GENERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 262.12 EPA identification numbers... waste without having received an EPA identification number from the Administrator. (b) A generator who...
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40 CFR 262.12 - EPA identification numbers.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 27 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false EPA identification numbers. 262.12... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO GENERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 262.12 EPA identification numbers... waste without having received an EPA identification number from the Administrator. (b) A generator who...
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40 CFR 262.12 - EPA identification numbers.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 26 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false EPA identification numbers. 262.12... (CONTINUED) STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO GENERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE General § 262.12 EPA identification numbers... waste without having received an EPA identification number from the Administrator. (b) A generator who...
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EPA's Final Action Denying Petitions for Reconsideration of the 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards
These September 2016 letters from EPA denies the petition from Monroe Energy LLC, American Petroleum Institute, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, regarding certain issues of the 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards Annual Rule.
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40 CFR 6.205 - Environmental assessments.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... include: (1) The award of wastewater treatment construction grants under Title II of the Clean Water Act; (2) EPA's issuance of new source NPDES permits under section 402 of the Clean Water Act; (3) EPA... IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA...
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40 CFR 6.205 - Environmental assessments.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... include: (1) The award of wastewater treatment construction grants under Title II of the Clean Water Act; (2) EPA's issuance of new source NPDES permits under section 402 of the Clean Water Act; (3) EPA... IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA...
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40 CFR 6.205 - Environmental assessments.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... include: (1) The award of wastewater treatment construction grants under Title II of the Clean Water Act; (2) EPA's issuance of new source NPDES permits under section 402 of the Clean Water Act; (3) EPA... IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ABROAD OF EPA...
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US EPA GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS - TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE
The U.S. EPA Geospatial Quality Council (GQC) was formed in 1998 to provide Quality Assurance guidance for the development, use, and products of geospatial activities and research. The long-term goals of the GQC are expressed in a living document, currently the EPA Geospatial Qua...
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40 CFR 52.1525 - EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 4 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false EPA-approved new Hampshire state... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) New Hampshire § 52.1525 EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations. The following table identifies that State regulations...
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40 CFR 52.1525 - EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 4 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved new Hampshire state... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) New Hampshire § 52.1525 EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations. The following table identifies that State regulations...
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40 CFR 52.1525 - EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 4 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false EPA-approved new Hampshire state... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) New Hampshire § 52.1525 EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations. The following table identifies that State regulations...
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40 CFR 52.1525 - EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 4 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false EPA-approved new Hampshire state... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CONTINUED) New Hampshire § 52.1525 EPA-approved new Hampshire state regulations. The following table identifies that State regulations...
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40 CFR Appendix III to Part 265 - EPA Interim Primary Drinking Water Standards
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
...) SOLID WASTES (CONTINUED) INTERIM STATUS STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT... 40 Protection of Environment 26 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false EPA Interim Primary Drinking Water... Water Standards Parameter Maximum level (mg/l) Arsenic 0.05 Barium 1.0 Cadmium 0.01 Chromium 0.05...
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40 CFR Appendix III to Part 265 - EPA Interim Primary Drinking Water Standards
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
...) SOLID WASTES (CONTINUED) INTERIM STATUS STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT... 40 Protection of Environment 25 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false EPA Interim Primary Drinking Water... Water Standards Parameter Maximum level (mg/l) Arsenic 0.05 Barium 1.0 Cadmium 0.01 Chromium 0.05...
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40 CFR Appendix III to Part 265 - EPA Interim Primary Drinking Water Standards
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 26 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false EPA Interim Primary Drinking Water Standards III Appendix III to Part 265 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) SOLID WASTES (CONTINUED) INTERIM STATUS STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES Pt....
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EPA Metadata Style Guide Keywords and EPA Organization Names
The following keywords and EPA organization names listed below, along with EPA’s Metadata Style Guide, are intended to provide suggestions and guidance to assist with the standardization of metadata records.
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76 FR 54293 - Review of National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-31
...This rule is being issued at this time as required by a court order governing the schedule for completion of this review of the air quality criteria and the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon monoxide (CO). Based on its review, the EPA concludes the current primary standards are requisite to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety, and is retaining those standards. After review of the air quality criteria, EPA further concludes that no secondary standard should be set for CO at this time. EPA is also making changes to the ambient air monitoring requirements for CO, including those related to network design, and is updating, without substantive change, aspects of the Federal reference method.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-09
...The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has notified EPA that it has adopted regulations for the control of diesel particulate matter in the exhaust from in-use portable diesel-fueled compression- ignition engines 50 horsepower and greater. CARB has requested that EPA issue a new authorization for the emission standards established by these regulations. This notice announces that EPA has tentatively scheduled a public hearing to consider California's In-Use Portable Diesel Equipment Airborne Toxic Control Measure authorization request and that EPA is now accepting written comment on the request.
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Setting and Reviewing Standards to Control Carbon Monoxide (CO) Pollution in Outdoor Air
EPA sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for CO to protect public health and to protect public welfare. The Clean Air Act also requires EPA to periodically review and revise them if appropriate.
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AMBIENT AIR MONITORING STRATEGY
The Clean Air Act requires EPA to establish national ambient air quality standards and to regulate as necessary, hazardous air pollutants. EPA uses ambient air monitoring to determine current air quality conditions, and to assess progress toward meeting these standards and relat...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-25
...-AR30 Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5... Particulate Matter AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The EPA is... for particulate matter (PM) known as ``particulate matter emissions'' in the context of the PSD and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-09
... Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions from biomass boilers. We... PCAPCD 233 Biomass Boilers 06/14/12 09/21/12 On October 11, 2012, EPA determined that the submittal for... that control NO X emissions. Rule 233 limits NO X emissions from biomass boilers. EPA's technical...
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75 FR 6813 - Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; New Mexico; Albuquerque/Bernalillo County
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-11
...). ACTION: Direct final rule. SUMMARY: The EPA is approving revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP.... Background III. Summary of Changes to the New Mexico SIP IV. Final Action V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews I. What Action Is EPA Taking? Today we are approving revisions to the New Mexico SIP, submitted by...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-15
... in their comment that EPA approve a conflict of interest protocol submitted for inclusion in the SIP... that with the inclusion of this protocol in the SIP, EPA would be able to approve Alabama's 1997 annual... the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions, submitted by the State of Alabama, through the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-30
...-AQ63 Action To Ensure Authority To Implement Title V Permitting Programs Under the Greenhouse Gas... this action, EPA is finalizing its proposed rulemaking to narrow EPA's previous approval of State title... raising the GHG thresholds that apply title V permitting to major sources in the affected States, this...
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40 CFR 49.10887 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10887 Section 49.10887 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Stillaguamish Tribe of Washington § 49.10887 EPA-approved...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-27
... Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2243.06... National Environmental Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects Abroad of EPA Actions (Renewal... ``Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Assessing the Environmental Effects...
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78 FR 52893 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Iowa
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-27
... (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the State... Board of Health Rules and Regulations. These proposed revisions reflect updates to the Iowa statewide rules previously approved by EPA and will ensure consistency between the applicable local agency rules...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-31
...-Beaver Valley 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is making a final determination that the Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley 8-hour ozone..., Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania. EPA's determination is...
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78 FR 17395 - National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-21
... National Academy of Sciences' report on ``Sustainability and the U.S. EPA.'' NACEPT's second letter on sustainability will address two topics: (1) what strengths EPA can leverage to successfully deploy sustainability... sustainability implementation. The agenda and meeting materials will be available at http://www.epa.gov/ofacmo...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-27
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0453; FRL-9904-35-Region 5... Control Measures for Industrial Solvent Cleaning for Northwest Indiana AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-30
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2010-0259; FRL-9245-8] Approval and... Lithographic and Letterpress Printing in Cleveland AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: On March 9, 2010, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) submitted...
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THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FATE AND TRANSPORT OF PESTICIDES IN AND AROUND BUILDINGS.
The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996 mandates consideration of aggregate exposures from food and non-occupational sources as part of EPA's pesticide evaluation process. In its implementation plan, EPA states that "EPA must develop new data and exposure models to estimat...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-26
... Particulate Matter Nonattainment Area to Attainment AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... Counties in their entireties. EPA is now proposing four separate but related actions. First, EPA is..., Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) mobile model supplement for the Greensboro Area, provided that...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-16
...EPA is proposing a limited approval and a limited disapproval of two revisions to the Kentucky State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Division of Air Quality (KYDAQ), on June 25, 2008, and May 28, 2010, that address regional haze for the first implementation period. These revisions address the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas (national parks and wilderness areas) caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA is proposing a limited approval of these SIP revisions to implement the regional haze requirements for Kentucky on the basis that the revisions, as a whole, strengthen the Kentucky SIP. Also in this action, EPA is proposing a limited disapproval of these same SIP revisions because of the deficiencies in the Commonwealth's regional haze SIP submittal arising from the remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) to EPA of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR).
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Plessel, T.; Szykman, J.; Freeman, M.
2012-12-01
EPA's Remote Sensing Information Gateway (RSIG) is a widely used free applet and web service for quickly and easily retrieving, visualizing and saving user-specified subsets of atmospheric data - by variable, geographic domain and time range. Petabytes of available data include thousands of variables from a set of NASA and NOAA satellites, aircraft, ground stations and EPA air-quality models. The RSIG applet is used by atmospheric researchers and uses the rsigserver web service to obtain data and images. The rsigserver web service is compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Coverage Service (OGC-WCS) standard to facilitate data discovery and interoperability. Since rsigserver is publicly accessible, it can be (and is) used by other applications. This presentation describes the architecture and technical implementation details of this successful system with an emphasis on achieving convenience, high-performance, data integrity and security.
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U.S. EPA Superfund Program's Policy for Risk and Dose Assessment
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Walker, Stuart
2008-01-15
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI) has primary responsibility for implementing the long-term (non-emergency) portion of a key U.S. law regulating cleanup: the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, CERCLA, nicknamed 'Superfund'. The purpose of the Superfund program is to protect human health and the environment over the long term from releases or potential releases of hazardous substances from abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. The focus of this paper is on risk and dose assessment policies and tools for addressing radioactively contaminated sites by the Superfund program. EPA has almost completedmore » two risk assessment tools that are particularly relevant to decommissioning activities conducted under CERCLA authority. These are the: 1. Building Preliminary Remediation Goals for Radionuclides (BPRG) electronic calculator, and 2. Radionuclide Outdoor Surfaces Preliminary Remediation Goals (SPRG) electronic calculator. EPA developed the BPRG calculator to help standardize the evaluation and cleanup of radiologically contaminated buildings at which risk is being assessed for occupancy. BPRGs are radionuclide concentrations in dust, air and building materials that correspond to a specified level of human cancer risk. The intent of SPRG calculator is to address hard outside surfaces such as building slabs, outside building walls, sidewalks and roads. SPRGs are radionuclide concentrations in dust and hard outside surface materials. EPA is also developing the 'Radionuclide Ecological Benchmark' calculator. This calculator provides biota concentration guides (BCGs), also known as ecological screening benchmarks, for use in ecological risk assessments at CERCLA sites. This calculator is intended to develop ecological benchmarks as part of the EPA guidance 'Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Process for Designing and Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments'. The calculator develops ecological benchmarks for ionizing radiation based on cell death only.« less
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Nolen, S.L.; Dimmick, W.F.
1990-10-01
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in June 1985 a new strategy to reduce public exposure to toxic air pollutants in the ambient air. Over the next 5-8 years, the strategy called for State and Local authorities to take on more of the lead regulatory role, with the Agency providing technical and financial assistance to their efforts. The shift in emphasis and responsibility from the Federal level to State and Local air toxics programs and the need to transfer expertise from the Federal level to the appropriate State or Local level prompted EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) andmore » EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) to develop and implement an innovative technical assistance program. This program is called the Control Technology Center (CTC). It has since been expanded to include technical assistance in the area of control of air toxics, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs); emission measurements; and other areas where expertise is available to ORD and OAQPS. During the CTC's first year of operation, operating guidelines were developed and three categories of technical assistance were established. These categories are telephone HOTLINE calls, direct engineering assistance, and technical guidance projects. The CTC HOTLINE is a special telephone number which State and Local Agencies can call for easy access to EPA personnel who can provide prompt assistance in a variety of ways including discussions, references to pertinent literature, and referrals to other EPA personnel. In some cases, a HOTLINE call will require more in-depth engineering analysis indicating a need for direct engineering assistance.« less
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-26
.... until 2 p.m. and a dinner break is scheduled from 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. The EPA's Web site for the... preferences on speaking times may not be able to be fulfilled. If you will require the service of a translator... hearing schedules, including lists of speakers, will be posted on the EPA's Web site at http://www.epa.gov...
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This letter from EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to Governor Schwarzenegger denies California's request for a waiver of Federal preemption for motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards submitted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
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CURRENT STATUS OF THE EPA PROTOCOL GAS PROGRAM
Accurate compressed gas calibration standards are needed to calibrate continuous emission monitors (CEMs) and ambient air quality monitors that are being used for regulatory purposes. EPA has published a protocol to establish the traceability of these standards to national refer...
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40 CFR 59.512 - Addresses of EPA regional offices.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
... (CONTINUED) NATIONAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSION STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Aerosol Coatings § 59.512 Addresses of EPA..., Air Pesticides and Toxics, Management Division, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street, SW...
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40 CFR 59.512 - Addresses of EPA regional offices.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... (CONTINUED) NATIONAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSION STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Aerosol Coatings § 59.512 Addresses of EPA..., Air Pesticides and Toxics, Management Division, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street, SW...
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40 CFR 59.512 - Addresses of EPA regional offices.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... (CONTINUED) NATIONAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSION STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Aerosol Coatings § 59.512 Addresses of EPA..., Air Pesticides and Toxics, Management Division, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street, SW...
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40 CFR 59.512 - Addresses of EPA regional offices.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
... (CONTINUED) NATIONAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSION STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Aerosol Coatings § 59.512 Addresses of EPA..., Air Pesticides and Toxics, Management Division, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street, SW...
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EPA waiver of ground water cleanup standards in NY
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Hess, A.A.
1995-11-01
EPA may invoke a technical impracticability (TI) waiver at a site when the Agency determines that it is technically impracticable from an engineering perspective to attain cleanup standards within a reasonable time period. The October 6, 1994 TI waiver of ground water cleanup standards at the G.E./Moreau Superfund Site in New York is the first post-Record of Decision (ROD) TI waiver granted by EPA since issuance of the September 1993 guidance on technical impracticability of ground water restoration. In the 1987 ROD, EPA selected natural gradient flushing and treatment as the ground water remedy and estimated that TCE-contaminated ground watermore » within the unconsolidated aquifer at the Site would be restored to drinking water quality within decades. EPA`s subsequent reevaluation showed that cleanup of the ground water would take 200 years or more, regardless of the remedial technology employed, due to the presence of site-specific physical and chemical factors that limit the effectiveness of ground water remediation technologies. Following public participation activities, EPA issued the TI waiver as an Explanation of Significant Differences (ESD) to the ROD. The ESD revised the time frame expected for ground water restoration but did not reduce or change any of the required cleanup actions.« less
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[U.S. renewable fuel standard implementation mechanism and market tracking].
Kang, Liping; Earley, Robert; An, Feng; Zhang, Yu
2013-03-01
U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a mandatory policy for promoting the utilization of biofuels in road transpiration sector in order to reduce the country's dependency on foreign oil and greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines the proportion of renewable fuels according to RFS annual target, and requests obligated parties such like fossil fuel refiner, blenders and importer in the U.S. to complete Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO) every year. Obligated parties prove they have achieved their RVO through a renewable fuels certification system, which generates Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) for every gallon of qualified renewable fuels produced or imported into U.S., RINs is a key for tracking renewable fuel consumption, which in turn is a key for implementing the RFS in the U.S., separated RINs can be freely traded in market and obligated parties could fulfill their RVO through buying RINs from other stakeholders. This briefing paper highlights RFS policy implementing mechanism and marketing tracking, mainly describes importance of RINs, and the method for generating and tracking RINs by both government and fuels industry participants.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-16
... Implementation Plan (SIP) that would incorporate EPA's ``Biomass Deferral'' into the Maryland SIP. At the request... comments. B. Email: cox[email protected] . C. Mail: EPA-R03-OAR-2012-0305, Ms. Kathleen Cox, Associate Director, Office of Permits and Air Toxics, Mailcode 3AP10, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-06
... 51.902(a)), EPA is proposing to determine that this area has attained the 1997 ozone NAAQS by its... implementation rule (see 40 CFR 51.902(a)), EPA is proposing to determine that this area has attained the 1997... 1997 8-hour ozone nonattainment area continues to attain the 1997 8-hour National Ambient Air Quality...
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Comparison of EPA Method 1615 RT-qPCR Assays in Standard and Kit Format
EPA Method 1615 contains protocols for measuring enterovirus and norovirus by reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction. A commercial kit based upon these protocols was designed and compared to the method's standard approach. Reagent grade, secondary effluent, ...
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INTERFACING SAS TO ORACLE IN THE UNIX ENVIRONMENT
SAS is an EPA standard data and statistical analysis software package while ORACLE is EPA's standard data base management system software package. RACLE has the advantage over SAS in data retrieval and storage capabilities but has limited data and statistical analysis capability....
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EPA Office of Water (OW): Nutrient, Sediment, and Pathogens Water Impairments
National dataset consisting of a snapshot of 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters combined with Impaired Waters with TMDLs whose parent cause is Nutrients, Sediments, and Pathogens. The snapshot constitutes the top water impairments. The Impaired Waters with TMDLs and the 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters are combined into three mapping service layers in MyWaters Mapper application to provide a comprehensive view of each of these impairments. These waters are linked to the 303(d) information stored in EPAs Assessment and TMDL Tracking and Implementation System (ATTAINS). Below is a brief description of the two programs.The 303(d) Listed Impaired Waters program system provides impaired water data and impaired water features reflecting river segments, lakes, and estuaries designated under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. Each State will establish Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for these waters. Note the CWA Section 303(d) list of impaired waters does not represent waters that are impaired but have an EPA-approved TMDL established, impaired waters for which other pollution control mechanisms are in place and expected to attain water quality standards, or waters impaired as a result of pollution and is not caused by a pollutant; therefore, the Impaired Waters layers do not represent all impaired waters reported in a state's Integrated Report, but only the waters comprised of a state's approved 303(d) list. For more information regarding impaired waters refer to EPA's
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EPA Bureau IT Leadership Directory
In keeping with OMB guidance on implementing the Federal Information Technology Reform Act (FITARA), EPA is publishing its list of officials who perform the duties or responsibilities of a Bureau CIO.
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EPA ensures its buildings and practices reflect our mission by implementing strategies to reduce the environmental impact of its facilities and operations by building sustainable structures and improving the energy efficiency of older buildings.
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This presentation describes EPA Method 537 for the analysis of 14 perfluorinated alkyl acids in drinking water as well as the challenges associated with preparing a laboratory for analysis using Method 537.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-19
...; State of California; PM-10; Determination of Attainment for the Coso Junction Nonattainment Area... Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is finalizing its determination that the Coso Junction... Officer, GBUAPCD, to Doris Lo, Environmental Protection Specialist, EPA, with CosoJunction2010--MetAndTEOM...
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40 CFR 49.10167 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10167 Section 49.10167 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Jamestown S'klallam Tribe of Washington § 49.10167 EPA...
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40 CFR 49.10227 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10227 Section 49.10227 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon § 49.10227 EPA-approved Tribal...
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40 CFR 49.10257 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10257 Section 49.10257 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho § 49.10257 EPA-approved Tribal rules...
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40 CFR 49.10467 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10467 Section 49.10467 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Nooksack Indian Tribe of Washington § 49.10467 EPA-approved...
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40 CFR 49.10047 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10047 Section 49.10047 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon § 49.10047 EPA...
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40 CFR 49.10407 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10407 Section 49.10407 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho § 49.10407 EPA-approved Tribal rules...
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40 CFR 49.10647 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10647 Section 49.10647 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe of Washington § 49.10647 EPA...
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40 CFR 49.11047 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.11047 Section 49.11047 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe of Washington § 49.11047 EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-10
... instructions for submitting comments. Email: ostigaard.crystal@epa.gov . Fax: (303) 312-6064 (please alert the.... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Crystal Ostigaard, Air Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....crystal@epa.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Rules section of this Federal Register, EPA is...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-19
... submitting comments. Email: ostigaard.crystal@epa.gov . Fax: (303) 312-6064 (please alert the individual.... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Crystal Ostigaard, Air Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....crystal@epa.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Rules section of this Federal Register, EPA is...
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76 FR 5800 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-02
....regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or... renew an existing approved Information Collection Request (ICR) 2258.02-- Implementation of the 1997 and...-566-1741 Mail: Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0265, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-11
... of interstate transport. In this rulemaking EPA is addressing only the requirement that pertains to... of, and extent of, interstate transport. In that action, EPA developed an approach that allowed the... technical analyses that EPA deemed useful to evaluate the issue of interstate transport on that geographic...
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U.S. EPA'S SURVEY OF THE NATION'S NON-WADEABLE STREAMS AND RIVERS
The U.S. EPA is engaging states, tribes and other parties in designing a national survey to assess the condition of non-wadeable rivers and streams. The rivers survey is one of a series of surveys being implemented as a partnership among states, tribes and U.S. EPA, with the coll...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-14
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R04-OAR-2010-0604-201140; FRL-9464-1] Approval... AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to make..., Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61...
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40 CFR 49.10017 - EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false EPA-approved Tribal rules and plans. [Reserved] 49.10017 Section 49.10017 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY GRANTS AND... Tribes-Region X Implementation Plan for the Coquille Tribe of Oregon § 49.10017 EPA-approved Tribal rules...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-16
... Technology Determination AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The EPA... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R06-OAR-2010-0846; FRL-9698-3] Stay of the... Visibility and Best Available Retrofit Technology Determination'' under the authority of the Administrative...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-01
... on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)'' (EPA/ 635/R-10/001). The SAB workgroup will assess the adequacy of EPA's implementation of the SAB previous recommendations regarding the cancer risk... previous recommendations for the revision of EPA's cancer risk assessment of inorganic arsenic. Background...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-06
... 2005 Base Year Emissions Inventory AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: EPA is approving the fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) 2005 base year emissions inventory, a... 2005 base year emissions inventory for the Detroit-Ann Arbor area. EPA did not receive any comments...
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75 FR 10182 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Iowa
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-05
... INFORMATION: Throughout this document ``we,'' ''us,'' or ``our'' refer to the EPA. Table of Contents I. What is being addressed in this document? II. What revisions is EPA approving? III. What action is EPA taking? IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews I. What is being addressed in this document? The State...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-27
... at the Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center, EPA/DC, EPA East Building, Room 3334, 1301... docket for the Proposed Transport Rule (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009- 0491) additional information... emissions inventories for specific source categories and related new information and models that have become...
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Setting a protective PM standard: A view from the frontline
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
John Paul; Eddie Terrill
2006-06-15
Several aspects of the US EPA's recent proposal to revise the particulate matter (PM) standards deeply concern state and local air agencies and their representatives with the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Offices (STAPPA and ALAPCO). STAPPA and ALAPCO urge EPA to follow the recommendations of its appointed scientific experts and lower the annual average standard to 13 or 14 {mu}mg/m{sup 3} in addition to lowering the daily standard to 35 {mu}m/m{sup 3}. Unless EPA strengthens its proposal consistent with the recommendations of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC),more » STAPPA and ALAPCO are extremely concerned that we will continue to see significant increased premature mortality and adverse health effects throughout the country. For the reasons described in the article STAPPA and ALAPCO urge EPA to eliminate the exemptions for agriculture, mining and rural windblown dust. STAPPA and ALAPCO are troubled that EPA has ignored any commitment to funding the proposed coarse PM network scheduled for deployment in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008. EPA has estimated that the capital costs of this monitoring network could easily exceed US$ 14 million, with annual operating expenses of approximately US$ 13 million. State and local agencies will simply not be able to assume these significant costs. 33 refs.« less
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EPA CIO Governance Board Membership List
In keeping with OMB guidance on implementing the Federal Information Technology Reform Act (FITARA), EPA is publishing its list of officials who perform the duties or responsibilities of a Bureau CIO.
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US EPA Nonattainment Areas and Designations
This web service contains the following state level layers:Ozone 8-hr (1997 standard), Ozone 8-hr (2008 standard), Lead (2008 standard), SO2 1-hr (2010 standard), PM2.5 24hr (2006 standard), PM2.5 Annual (1997 standard), PM2.5 Annual (2012 standard), and PM10 (1987 standard). Full FGDC metadata records for each layer may be found by clicking the layer name at the web service endpoint (https://gispub.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/OAR_OAQPS/NonattainmentAreas/MapServer) and viewing the layer description. These layers identify areas in the U.S. where air pollution levels have not met the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for criteria air pollutants and have been designated nonattainment?? areas (NAA). The data are updated weekly from an OAQPS internal database. However, that does not necessarily mean the data have changed. The EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) has set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for six principal pollutants, which are called criteria pollutants. Under provisions of the Clean Air Act, which is intended to improve the quality of the air we breathe, EPA is required to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for six common air pollutants. These commonly found air pollutants (also known as criteria pollutants) are found all over the United States. They are particle pollution (often referred to as particulate matter), ground-level ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and lead. For each
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November 1, 2017 -- EPA is issuing two notices of data availability related to the agency’s proposed stays of certain requirements in the 2016 New Source Performance Standards for the oil and natural gas industry.
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75 FR 43979 - Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard-Notice of Determination
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-27
... England Region, Office of Ecosystem Protection, Oceans and Coastal Protection Unit, Five Post Office... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-R01-OW-2010-0318, FRL-9180-3] Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard--Notice of Determination AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of...
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76 FR 39395 - Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard-Notice of Determination
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-06
... England Region, Office of Ecosystem Protection, Oceans and Coastal Protection Unit, Five Post Office... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-R01-OW-2011-0364, FRL-9430-1] Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard--Notice of Determination AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of...
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75 FR 38516 - Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard-Notice of Determination
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-02
... England Region, Office of Ecosystem Protection, Oceans and Coastal Protection Unit, Five Post Office... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-R01-OW-2010-0316, FRL-9170-4] Massachusetts Marine Sanitation Device Standard--Notice of Determination AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of...
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75 FR 4379 - Maine Marine Sanitation Device Standard-Notice of Determination
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-01-27
... Protection Agency--New England Region, Office of Ecosystem Protection, Coastal and Oceans Protection Unit... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-R01-OW-2009-0304, FRL-9106-3] Maine Marine Sanitation Device Standard--Notice of Determination AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of...
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STATUS OF EPA/DOE MOU TECHNICAL WORKGROUP ACTIVITIES: HG WASTE TREATMENT
EPA's Land Disposal Restrictions program currently has technology-specific treatment standards for hazardous wastes containing greater than or equal to 260ppm total mercury (Hg) (i.e., high Hg subcategory wastes). The treatment standards specify RMERC for high Hg subcategory wast...
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Relaxation of the Summer Gasoline Volatility Standard for Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee
EPA is taking direct final action to approve a request from the the Middle Tennessee Area for the EPA to relax the Reid Vapor Pressure standard applicable to gasoline introduced into commerce in the summer time for the Middle Tennessee Area.
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EPA Traceability Protocol for Assay and Certification of Gaseous Calibration Standards
In 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, revised its 1993 version of its traceability protocol for the assay and certification of compressed gas and permeation-device calibration standards. The protocol allows producers o...
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After considering state and tribal recommendations, reviewing the most recent certified fine particle air quality data, and emissions that contribute fine particle pollution, EPA has completed initial designations for the 2012 annual fine particle standard
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EPA's Web Taxonomy is a faceted hierarchical vocabulary used to tag web pages with terms from a controlled vocabulary. Tagging enables search and discovery of EPA's Web based information assests. EPA's Web Taxonomy is being provided in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) format. SKOS is a standard for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems that promises to make Federal terminology resources more interoperable.
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40 CFR 13.22 - Salary offset when EPA is the creditor agency.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Salary offset when EPA is the creditor... COLLECTION STANDARDS Administrative Offset § 13.22 Salary offset when EPA is the creditor agency. (a... through salary offset, EPA will first provide the employee with the opportunity to pay in full the amount...
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76 FR 21692 - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Primary Lead Smelting
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-18
[email protected] . Attention Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0305. Fax: (202) 566-9744. Attention Docket... (6102T), EPA West (Air Docket), Attention Docket ID Number EPA- HQ-OAR-2004-0305, U.S. Environmental... Agency, EPA West (Air Docket), Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004, Attention...
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Approved Air Quality Implementation Plans in Region 10
Landing page for information about EPA-approved air quality State Implementation Plans (SIPs), Tribal Implementation Plans (TIPs), and Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs) in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-03
...EPA is promulgating national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for existing stationary compression ignition reciprocating internal combustion engines that either are located at area sources of hazardous air pollutant emissions or that have a site rating of less than or equal to 500 brake horsepower and are located at major sources of hazardous air pollutant emissions. In addition, EPA is promulgating national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for existing non-emergency stationary compression ignition engines greater than 500 brake horsepower that are located at major sources of hazardous air pollutant emissions. Finally, EPA is revising the provisions related to startup, shutdown, and malfunction for the engines that were regulated previously by these national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants.
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Emerging contaminants: Presentations at the 2009 Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Murnyak, George, E-mail: George.murnyak@us.army.mil; Vandenberg, John, E-mail: Vandenberg.John@epamail.epa.gov; Yaroschak, Paul J., E-mail: Paul.Yaroschak@osd.mil
2011-07-15
A session entitled 'Emerging Contaminants' was held in April 2009 in Cincinnati, OH at the 2009 Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference. The purpose of the session was to share information on both programmatic and technical aspects associated with emerging contaminants. Emerging contaminants are chemicals or materials that are characterized by a perceived or real threat to human health or environment, a lack of published health standards or an evolving standard. A contaminant may also be 'emerging' because of the discovery of a new source, a new pathway to humans, or a new detection method or technology. The session included fivemore » speakers representing the Department of Defense (DoD), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and each of the military services. The DoD created the Emerging Contaminant Directorate to proactively address environmental, health, and safety concerns associated with emerging contaminants. This session described the scan-watch-action list process, impact assessment methodology, and integrated risk management concept that DoD has implemented to manage emerging contaminants. EPA presented emerging trends in health risk assessment. Researchers made technical presentations on the status of some emerging contaminates in the assessment process (i.e. manganese, RDX, and naphthalene).« less
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Current Status of EPA Verification Program for EPA Protocol Gases
Accurate compressed gas calibration standards are needed to calibrate continuous emission monitors (CEMs) and ambient air quality monitors that are being used for regulatory purposes. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established its traceability protocol to ensure that c...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-28
...EPA is proposing a limited approval of a revision to the Missouri State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Missouri through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) on August 5, 2009, and supplemental information submitted on January 30, 2012, that addresses regional haze for the first implementation period. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or ``Act'') and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA is proposing a limited approval of this SIP revision to implement the regional haze requirements for Missouri on the basis that the revision, as a whole, strengthens the Missouri SIP. In a separate action EPA has previously proposed a limited disapproval of the Missouri regional haze SIP because of deficiencies in the State's regional haze SIP submittal arising from the remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia (DC Circuit) to the EPA of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). See 76 FR 82219. Therefore, we are not taking action in this notice to address the State's reliance on CAIR to meet certain regional haze requirements.
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Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Primary Standards Documents from Current Review - Federal Register Notices
EPA develops and publishes a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the review of the SO2 national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). A public comment period follows. Taking into account comments received on the proposed rule, EPA issues a final rule.
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76 FR 38592 - Phosphorus Water Quality Standards for Florida Everglades
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-01
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 131 [EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0515; FRL-9428-3] Phosphorus Water... Standards for Phosphorus in the Everglades Protection Area (Phosphorus Rule) and Florida's Amended... the Phosphorus Rule and EFA. EPA's disapproval, specific directions to the State, and today's proposed...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-11
... conflict resolution associated with conformity determinations (COMAR 26.11.26.06). EPA has determined that... regulation regarding conflict resolution associated with conformity determinations. Therefore, EPA is...
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EPA Approved Regulations in the California SIP
EPA approved California statutes and regulations incorporated by reference in the applicable State Implementation Plan (SIP), as well as approved test procedures, methods and specifications that are cited in certain regulations listed.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-10-12
... Matter and Ozone AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Announcement of public hearing... Ozone'', which was signed on October 6, 2011 and posted on EPA's website on October 6, 2011. The hearing... Particulate Matter and Ozone and Correction of SIP Approvals). EPA is proposing to amend the assurance penalty...