CEQ proposed the “Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule” to revise its regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA, including to implement the Fiscal Responsibility Act’s amendments to NEPA.

BLM proposed to revise its oil and gas leasing regulations to reflect provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act pertaining to royalty rates, rentals, and minimum bids; update the bonding requirements for leasing, development, and production; improve its leasing process to ensure proper stewardship of public lands and resources; and modify operating requirements.

United States v. Brock Maslonka, No. 2:20-cv-304-SAB, (E.D. Wash. July 14, 2023). A settling CWA defendant must restore impacted areas, perform mitigation, and pay a civil penalty for discharging pollutants without a permit into waters of the United States.

EPA identified certain additional water quality-limited segments for West Virginia’s Combined 2018-2020-2022 Section 303(d) list and seeks comment on those additions.

EPA Region 10 proposed to modify the NPDES general permit for concentrated animal feeding operations in Idaho excluding tribal lands.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under the CWA and the APA in Gunpowder Riverkeeper v. Regan, No. 1:20-cv-02063 (D.D.C.), concerning allegations that the Agency's approval of Maryland’s submission of TMDLs of PCBs for the Gunpowder and Bird Rivers was arbitrary and capricious in violation of the APA.

USDA, on behalf of the Administration’s Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Measurement Interagency Working Group (GHG IWG), seeks comment on the draft interagency report entitled, Federal Strategy to Advance Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Monitoring for the Agriculture and Forest Sectors (Strategy), to inform the GHG IWG, and agencies' planning and implementation of an agriculture and forestry monitoring, measurement, reporting, and verification framework and near-term activities.

United States v. Sandy, Oregon, City of, No. 23-cv-968 (D. Or. June 30, 2023). A settling CWA defendant must perform injunctive relief measures to ensure future compliance, pay a penalty of $250,000 to the United States, pay a penalty of $50,000 to the state of Oregon, and perform a state supplemental environmental project valued at $200,000 for failing to comply with the requirements of its NPDES permits.

United States v. Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, No. 3:15-CV-02283 (D.P.R. June 29, 2023). Under a proposed modification to a consent decree, a settling CWA defendant is granted a deadline extension on implementing projects to address wastewater discharges from drinking water treatment plants.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service proposed and seeks comment on changes to certain conservation practice standards in the National Handbook of Conservation Practices.