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89 FR 18933

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on the 2024 draft risk evaluation for formaldehyde prepared under TSCA. 

89 FR 18669

United States v. Crowley Marine Services, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00307 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 7, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants must purchase credits in a habitat restoration project constructed along the Lower Duwamish River, pay a total of $210,000 for natural resource damages, and pay $64,325.63 to reimburse assessment costs in connection with natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil from facilities located along and near the river. 

89 FR 18408

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement in Ecology Center v. U.S. EPA, No. 23-70158 (9th Cir.), that would resolve all claims in the case by establishing deadlines for EPA to take final action regarding a rulemaking under TSCA regulating lead wheel weights.

89 FR 16560

EPA announced a 60-day public comment period associated with release of the draft IRIS Toxicological Review of Perfluorononanoic Acid and Related Salts. 

89 FR 15868

EPA Region 4 reissued the NPDES general permit for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category located and discharging to the outer continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

89 FR 15272

NOAA proposed to designate marine portions of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Pacific Ocean waters surrounding the Northwest Hawaiian Islands as Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary. 

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89 FR 14646

EPA proposed to remove polytetrafluoroethylene from the current list of inert ingredients approved for use in food use and nonfood use pesticide products because it has been identified as a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance that is no longer used in any registered pesticide product.

89 FR 14087

BLM announced its intent to revise the Bureau's policies and procedures for compliance with NEPA, various executive orders, and CEQ's NEPA implementing regulations by proposing to remove four administratively established categorical exclusions (CEs) and to incorporate two CEs established by Congress. 

89 FR 13755

The National Science Foundation seeks input to inform the development of an implementation plan to advance a key recommendation of the Ocean Climate Action Plan regarding marine carbon dioxide removal research.