EPA proposed to approve Maine's NPDES program to include the permitting of all discharges within the Indian territories of the Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe.

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.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to authorize Natural Resources Conservation Service-approved categorical exclusions for recurring conservation, restoration, and survey-related activities in waters of the United States.

EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seek public comment on proposed guidance to identify waters protected by the FWPCA consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court's SWANNC and Rapanos decisions.

EPA entered into a settlement under CERCLA concerning the East Calloway County Middle School Mercury Spill site in Murray, Kentucky, that requires payment of past U.S. response costs incurred at the site.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling party to pay $208,990 in U.S. response costs incurred at the Big River Mine Tailings Superfund site in St. Francois County, Missouri.

EPA entered into two proposed administrative settlements under CERCLA and RCRA that require the settling party to perform certain cleanup actions at the Caribbean Petroleum Refining, LP facility in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and to assume responsibility for the UST systems and required cleanup work at 147 gasoline service stations.

NOAA-Fisheries announced a 90-day finding on a petition to revise critical habitat for the endangered leatherback sea turtle off the northeast ecological corridor of Puerto Rico; the agency found that revision may be warranted.

EPA proposed to approve revisions to Wisconsin's hazardous waste management program; see above for direct final rule.

EPA approved negative declarations and requests for EPA withdrawal of its CAA §§111(d) and 129 plan approval for HMIWI, large municipal waste combustor (LMWC), small municipal waste combustor (SMWC), and other solid waste incinerator (OSWI) units from Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina.