EPA finalized amendments to the new source performance standards for the synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry and amendments to the NESHAPs for hazardous organics and group I and II polymers and resins industries.

EPA retroactively applied the approved modification of the federal equivalent method designation for the teledyne advanced pollution instrumentation model T640 particulate matter (PM) mass monitor to all of the concentration data for PM2.5 from the T640 and T640X monitors in the EPA’s air quality system that was reported prior to the modification. 

SIP Proposal: Wisconsin (miscellaneous changes). 

SIP Approval: California (issuance of permits for stationary sources and the preconstruction review and permitting of major sources and major modifications in the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District). 

SIP Approval: Delaware (amendments to standardize public notices requirements). 

SIP Approval: New York (source-specific revision for the 2008 and 2015 ozone NAAQS for Finch Paper LLC).  

NOAA and EPA seek comment on the agencies’ proposed finding that Alabama has satisfied each of the conditions the agencies included as part of their 1998 approval of Alabama’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program. 

SIP Proposal: Florida (removal of obsolete, duplicative, or unnecessary rules from general provisions). 

DOI finalized regulatory amendments to its renewable energy regulations that eliminate unnecessary requirements for the deployment of meteorological buoys, increase survey flexibility, improve the project design and installation verification process, establish a public renewable energy leasing schedule, reform the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's renewable energy auction regulations, tailor financial assurance requirements and instruments, and clarify safety management system regulations.