The Federal Highway Administration transferred to the state of Utah the responsibility for the preparation of EAs and EISs under NEPA for federal-aid highway projects.

EPA announced that it has delegated to Virginia the authority to implement and enforce additional or revised NESHAPs and NSPS.

EPA announced that it has delegated to Pennsylvania the authority to implement and enforce 12 additional NESHAPs for area sources.

EPA announced delegation of authority to West Virginia to implement and enforce NESHAPs and NSPS.

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.