89 FR 22087
EPA updated a portion of the outer continental shelf air regulations for which North Carolina is the designated corresponding onshore area.
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.
EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement for remedial investigation addendum/focused feasibility study under CERCLA associated with the Smeltertown site near Salida, Colorado.
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).
SIP Proposal: New York (regional haze).
United States v. Trident Seafoods Corp., No. 2:19-cv-231 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 24, 2024). A proposed material modification to a consent decree concerning a settling CAA defendant's use of ozone-depleting refrigerants on board fishing vessels and at seafood processing facilities in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest extends certain deadlines for the defendant to retrofit or retire a number of its larger refrigeration appliances and requires the defendant to retrofit or retire the appliances on an additional vessel by January 31, 2032.
EPA proposed to revise regulations that allow for the open burning and detonation (OB/OD) of waste explosives by reducing OB/OD of waste explosives and increasing control of air emissions.
SIP Proposal: Wisconsin (second 10-year 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter limited maintenance plan for the Milwaukee-Racine maintenance area).