76 FR 2056
EPA proposed to incorporate American Society for Testing and Materials standards to allow the use of alternatives to mercury-containing industrial thermometers.
EPA proposed to incorporate American Society for Testing and Materials standards to allow the use of alternatives to mercury-containing industrial thermometers.
EPA is providing notice of, and soliciting written comments on, a tentative determination to deny an administrative petition submitted by the Sierra Club under RCRA section 7004. EPA issued an earlier notice denying this same petition in November 2008. However, the Agency at that time failed to comply with notice and comment provisions in its regulations. Accordingly, we are now giving the public the opportunity to provide comments on this tentative decision. This petition requests EPA to reconsider the final rule, ``Regulation of Oil-Bearing Hazardous Secondary Materials from the Petroleum Refining Industry Processed in a Gasification System to Produce Synthesis Gas,'' published in the Federal Register on January 2, 2008. The EPA considered the petition, along with information contained in the rulemaking docket, and has tentatively decided to deny the petition. In a letter from EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus dated January 21, 2011, EPA provided the petitioner with its tentative decision to deny the petition for reconsideration. The letter explains EPA's reasons for tentatively deciding to deny the petition. After evaluating all public comments, as well as any other information in the rulemaking record, EPA will publish either a final denial of the petition or issue a proposed rule to amend or repeal the regulation.
EPA granted a petition submitted by Owosso Graphic Arts Inc. in Owosso, Michigan, to exclude from the list of hazardous waste up to 244 cubic yards of wastewater treatment sludge per year.
This action approves a modification to Alaska's approved Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (MSWLF) permit program. The approved modification allows the State to issue Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD&D) permits to owners and operators of MSWLFs in accordance with its State law. On March 22, 2004, EPA issued final regulations allowing RD&D permits to be issued to certain MSWLFs by approved States. On September 7, 2010, the State of Alaska submitted an application to EPA Region 10 seeking Federal approval of its RD&D requirements. After thorough review, EPA Region 10 has determined that Alaska's RD&D permit requirements are adequate through this direct final action.
EPA Region 10 approved a modification to Alaska's municipal solid waste landfill program concerning research, development, and demonstration permit requirements.
EPA issued a final rule requiring GHG monitoring and reporting from facilities that conduct geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide.
FWS announced a 12-month finding on a petition to list the Berry Cave salamander as endangered under the ESA; the agency found that listing is warranted but precluded by higher priority actions.
FWS proposed to withdraw its listing of the flat-tailed horned lizard as a threatened species under the ESA because the threat to the species is less significant than earlier believed.
FWS proposed to designate approximately 11,136 acres in Arizona and New Mexico as critical habitat for the Chiricahua leopard frog and proposed to list the species as threatened under the ESA.
FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list the Texas kangaroo rat as endangered or threatened and to designate critical habitat under the ESA; the agency found that listing may be warranted and initiated a status review.