88 FR 30280
EPA and NOAA proposed to find that Michigan has satisfied all conditions the agencies established as part of their 1997 approval of the state’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program under the CZMA.
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88 FR 29496
EPA proposed to establish federal water quality standards (WQS) for Indian reservation waters that currently do not have WQS in effect under the CWA, with limited exceptions.
88 FR 28450
EPA proposed to approve revisions to Louisiana's Underground Injection Control Program that would allow permits for and ensure compliance of geologic carbon sequestration facilities as Class VI wells for primacy under the SDWA.
Ensnared: 21st-Century Aquaculture Law and the Coming Battle for the Ocean
As overfishing has depleted wild fisheries, U.S. policymakers have pushed aquaculture as an ideal paradigm for ocean fisheries. However, the public perception and myths of finfish commercial aquaculture are far from its reality. This Article examines the industrial aquaculture debate through the lens of Gulf Fishermens Ass’n v. National Marine Fisheries Service, where conservationists and fishermen challenged the first-ever rulemaking to set up a new aquaculture industry in U.S. federal waters.
88 FR 25427
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management seeks comment on possible commercial wind energy leasing on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Maine.
88 FR 24792
EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under the CWA and the APA in Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA, No. 21-71306 (9th Cir.), which would require the Agency to take specified steps with respect to implementation of the 2021 pesticide general permit (PGP), complete ESA consultation of the 2026 PGP, and propose for public comment certain changes to its monitoring and recordkeeping provisions.
88 FR 24613
EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under the CWA and the APA in Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. v. U.S. EPA , No. 1:20-cv-2529 (D.D.C.), which would require the Agency to take steps regarding its oversight and funding of Pennsylvania’s efforts under its CWA programs to reduce nutrient and sediment discharges within the state’s portion of the Bay watershed and evaluate by the end of 2026 how each Bay state fared in meeting the 2025 Goal set forward in the last Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
88 FR 24629
The Bureau of Ocean Energy management announced the availability of new outer continental shelf official protraction diagrams and official protraction aliquot diagrams depicting geographic areas in the Gulf of Mexico, which may be used for the description of potential renewable energy and mineral lease sales in the geographic areas that the diagrams represent.
88 FR 23569
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement clarified and formalized its regulations related to decommissioning responsibilities of outer continental shelf oil, gas, and sulfur lessees and grant holders.
88 FR 20501
NOAA announced its intention to prepare a National Coral Reef Resilience Strategy in accordance with the Coral Reef Conservation Act, providing the public with background on the scoping, seeking specific input, and providing a general opportunity for comment the administration can consider while developing the national strategy.