EPA accepted negative declarations from Arkansas, New Mexico, and Albuquerque-Bernalillo County, New Mexico, for existing incinerators subject to the commercial and industrial solid waste incineration units emission guidelines.

EPA authorized revisions to South Carolina’s hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

EPA entered into a proposed stipulated partial settlement agreement under the ESA concerning its alleged failure to consult on the effects to listed species of certain pesticide product registrations.

EPA proposed to approve in part the Texas coal combustion residuals (CCR) permit program to operate in lieu of the federal CCR program.

SIP Approval: Pennsylvania (reasonably available control technology requirements for volatile organic compounds under the 2008 ozone NAAQS).

FWS announced its 12-month finding on a petition to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the ESA; the agency found that listing the species as endangered or threatened is warranted but precluded by higher priority actions to amend the lists of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants, and announced that it would develop a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as priorities allowed.

EPA postponed the compliance deadlines for implementation of phase two of the NPDES electronic reporting rule, which requires the Agency and states to modernize CWA reporting.

EPA tentatively approved revisions to Pennsylvania's public water system supervision program.

EPA entered into a proposed de minimis administrative settlement agreement and order on consent under CERCLA concerning the Lane Street groundwater contaminiation site in Elkhart, Indiana.

NMFS announced its 90-day finding on a petition to list the giant devil ray as a distinct species that is threatened or endangered under the ESA, finding that listing is not warranted because the giant devil ray is a synonymous species with the spinetail devil ray and therefore the petition relies on obsolete information.