88 FR 12930
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under the CWA and APA in Cape Fear River Watch v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:22-cv-03809 (D.D.C.), in connection with its alleged failure to perform duties mandated by the CWA to revise the effluent limitations guidelines and promulgate pretreatment standards for the meat and poultry products industrial category.
88 FR 12724
DOT established regulations setting minimum standards and requirements for projects funded under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and projects for the construction of publicly accessible electric vehicle (EV) chargers under certain statutory authorities, including any EV charging infrastructure project funded with federal funds that is treated as a project on a federal-aid highway.
88 FR 11286
The federal agencies issued their semiannual regulatory agendas to update the public about regulations currently under development, reviews of existing regulations with small business impacts, and regulations completed or canceled since the last agenda. EPA’s agenda can be found at 88 FR 11286.
88 FR 10330
EPA approved the Delaware Division of Public Health's request to revise or modify certain of its Agency-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
88 FR 6376
DOI reassigned responsibilities for the administration of certain regulations governing renewable energy development and alternate uses of existing facilities on the outer continental shelf, transferring them from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
88 FR 5374
The Office of Management and Budget, on behalf of the Interagency Policy Working Group on Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions, announced the availability of a finalized strategic plan on statistics for environmental-economic decisions.
88 FR 3406
EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft white paper entitled “Availability of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP),” developed pursuant to the Federal, Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which requires the Agency to develop a screening program, to determine whether certain substances may have an effect in humans that is similar to an effect produced by a naturally occurring estrogen, or other endocrine effects.
88 FR 3433
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced and seeks comment on its intention to change its bid adequacy procedures, which ensure the United States receives fair market value from outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sales, by discontinuing the use of both tract classification and delayed valuation methodology and using a statistical lower bound confidence interval, at the 90 percent confidence level, as a measure of bid adequacy.
88 FR 2093
EPA seeks comment and recommendations on the National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for fiscal years 2024-2027 (formerly called “National Compliance Initiatives”).