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. 

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.

NOAA approved a boundary expansion for the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Prudence Island, Rhode Island, under the CZMA.

NOAA approved a boundary expansion for the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in Charleston, Oregon. 

EPA finalized a CWA regulation to revise the technology-based effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the steam electric power generating point source category applicable to flue gas desulfurization wastewater, bottom ash transport water and legacy wastewater at existing sources, and combustion residual leachate at new and existing sources. 

EPA updated the regulatory framework governing the management and protection of environmental, fish and wildlife, other surface resources, and special areas in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.