DOI, acting through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, proposed to modify its criteria for determining whether oil, gas, and sulfur lessees, right-of-use and easement grant holders, and pipeline right-of-way grant holders may be required to provide bonds or other financial assurance above the current regulatorily prescribed base bonds to ensure compliance with their Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act obligations.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed amendments to its hazardous materials regulations to require all railroads to generate in electronic form, maintain, and provide to first responders, emergency response officials, and law enforcement personnel, certain information regarding hazardous materials in rail transportation to enhance emergency response and investigative efforts.
EPA updated the list of chemicals subject to toxic chemical release reporting under EPCRA and the Pollution Prevention Act, identifying nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that must be reported.
EPA announced the start of the 2024 submission period for the TSCA Chemical Data Reporting rule.
EPA seeks comment on implementation of a plan to ensure that farmworkers have access to bilingual pesticide labeling by December 2025 under the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022.
EPA proposed to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by perchloroethylene (PCE) under its conditions of use as documented in the Agency's December 2020 risk evaluation for PCE and December 2022 revised risk determination for PCE prepared under TSCA.
EPA seeks comment on the draft Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) Guidelines for Planning and Problem Formulation, which describe steps for the planning and problem formulation of CRAs and offer guidelines for when they could be appropriate.
EPA announced a proposed consent decree that resolves Center for Food Safety v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 4:22-cv-6001-JST (N.D. Cal.), alleging the Agency unreasonably delayed responding to a petition for rulemaking, submitted to EPA on or around July 10, 2017, relating to the revision of testing requirements of pesticides prior to registration.
EPA amended the requirements in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan that govern the use of dispersants and other chemicals and spill mitigating substances when responding to oil discharges into jurisdictional waters of the United States.
FEMA seeks input on implementation of the Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022, including updates to the methodology and data used for the National Risk Index and any other hazard assessment products; potential improvements to FEMA’s provision of hazard data; the process used to designate community disaster resilience zones; financial and technical assistance for resilience or mitigation projects primarily benefitting community disaster resilience zones; and the community disaster resilience zone project application and certification process.