EPA Region 10 reproposed effluent limits for mercury, copper, total aromatic hydrocarbons, total aqueous hydrocarbons, silver, and whole effluent toxicity under the NPDES general permit for oil and gas exploration, development, and production facilities in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
EPA announced approval of Washington's lead-based paint renovation, repair, painting, and pre-renovation education programs for target housing and child-occupied facilities.
EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement in Sierra Club v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 2:10-cv-01872-RSL (W.D. Wash.), that establishes a deadline for the Agency to respond to a petition seeking its objection to a CAA Title V operating permit for a coal-fired power plant in Centralia, Washington.
FWS announced a 12-month finding on a petition to list the Puerto Rican harlequin butterfly as endangered and to designate critical habitat under the ESA; the agency found that listing is warranted but precluded by higher priority actions.
FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list the spot-tailed earless lizard as endangered or threatened under the ESA and to designate critical habitat; the agency found that listing may be warranted and initiated a status review.
NOAA-Fisheries proposed to designate the Middle Columbia River steelhead as a nonessential experimental population under the ESA.
NOAA-Fisheries proposed to designate the Middle Columbia River steelhead as a nonessential experimental population under the ESA.
FWS-Fisheries proposed revisions to the regulations on textual descriptions of proposed and final critical habitat boundaries in the Federal Register, in response to Executive Order No. 13563 of January 18, 2011.
FWS announced withdrawal of a proposal to list the mountain plover as a threatened species under the ESA because threats to the species are not as significant as earlier believed.
FWS proposed to designate 57,756 acres in Ada, Elmore, Owyhee, and Payette Counties in Idaho as critical habitat for slickspot peppergrass.