NOAA-Fisheries proposed to designate approximately 292 miles of freshwater creeks and rivers and their associated estuaries in California, Oregon, and Washington as critical habitat for the southern distinct population segment of Pacific eulachon.

EPA proposed to grant a petition submitted by Gulf West Landfill to delist the leachate generated at its facility in Anahuac, Texas, from the lists of hazardous wastes.

EPA proposed to deny a petition submitted by the Sierra Club to reconsider its final rule on oil-bearing hazardous secondary materials.

EPA proposed to approve revisions to Minnesota's hazardous waste management program.

EPA Region 10 proposed to approve a modification to Alaska's municipal solid waste landfill program concerning research, development, and demonstration permit requirements; see above for direct final rule.

DOE proposed to amend its existing regulations governing compliance with NEPA, particularly its categorical exclusions.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires 275 de minimis settling parties to pay $17,027,998 in U.S. response costs incurred at the Operating Industries, Inc., Superfund site in Monterey Park, California.

EPA finalized amendments to Method 301, Field Validation of Pollutant Measurement Methods From Various Waste Media.

EPA delayed the effective dates for the final rules titled "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters" and "Standards of Performance for New Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units" until judicial review and Agency reconsideration are completed.

NMFS announces that the annual harvest guideline for the 
commercial lobster fishery in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) 
for calendar year 2011 is established at zero lobsters.