SIP Proposal: Indiana (attainment finding for the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, 2008 ozone NAAQS, and redesignation of the Indiana portion to attainment).

EPA approved Kentucky's underground injection control class II program for primacy, which allows the state to implement and enforce regulations for injection wells located within the state.

SIP Approval: Georgia (revised air quality rules definitions).

EPA added a subsurface intrusion component to the Hazard Ranking System, which expands the number of available options for EPA, state and tribal organizations performing work on behalf of EPA to evaluate actual and potential threats to public health from releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.

FWS entered into a proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA, the OPA and the CWA, regarding natural resource damages from contamination at the Sinclair Refinery Superfund site, located in Allegany County, New York.

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under the CAA in Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. McCarthy, No. 3:16-cv-03796-VC (N.D. Cal. July 7, 2016), that requires EPA to establish deadlines to complete periodic reviews of the air quality criteria and the primary NAAQS for sulfur oxides and the primary NAAQS for nitrogen oxides, to make such revisions to those air quality criteria and NAAQS as may be appropriate, and to promulgate such new NAAQS as may be appropriate.

EPA proposed to prohibit the manufacture, import, processing, and distribution of methylene chloride for consumer and most types of commercial paint and coating removal under §6 of TSCA.

NMFS removed the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin canary rockfish distinct population segment from the federal List of Threatened and Endangered Species under the ESA because genetic testing revealed it does not meet the criteria. 

DOE temporarily stayed its final rule that clarified that the agency may assess civil penalties against contractors and subcontractor who retaliate against whistleblowers where nuclear safety is concerned.

The Commerce Department delayed the effective date of the NMFS final rule pertaining to standardized bycatch reporting methodologies to comply with the January 20, 2017, presidential memorandum.