89 FR 22337
SIP Approval: Maryland (regional haze).
SIP Approval: Maryland (regional haze).
EPA gave notice that the volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides motor vehicle emissions budgets in the submitted 2015 ozone moderate reasonable further progress plan for Allegan, Berrien, and Muskegon Counties are adequate for conformity purposes.
EPA updated a portion of the outer continental shelf air regulations for which North Carolina is the designated corresponding onshore area.
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in in Sierra Club v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:23-cv-01744-JDB (D.D.C.), that would establish deadlines for the Agency to sign a notice of proposed rulemaking for certain SIPs concerning regional haze.
SIP Approval: Florida (general conformity portion of the conformity rule).
SIP Proposal: West Virginia (limited maintenance plans for the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter NAAQS for the Charleston area and the West Virginia portion of the Steubenville-Weirton area).
SIP Proposal: California (issuance of permits for stationary sources and the preconstruction review and permitting of major sources and major modifications in the Tehama County Air Pollution Control District).
FWS withdrew the September 7, 2021, proposed rule to list the pyramid pigtoe as a threatened species under the ESA.
FWS proposed to list the pygmy three-toed sloth as a threatened species under the ESA, with a rule issued under §4(d) of the Act.
SIP Proposal: New York (regional haze).