EPA approved the Delaware Division of Public Health's request to revise or modify certain of its Agency-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

EPA seeks comment and recommendations on the National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for fiscal years 2024-2027 (formerly called “National Compliance Initiatives”).

EPA adjusted the level of the maximum (and minimum) statutory civil monetary penalty amounts under the statutes the Agency administers.

DOT announced the statutorily-prescribed 2023 adjustment to civil penalty amounts that may be imposed for violations of certain Department regulations.

The Internal Revenue Service announced that a petition had been filed requesting that polyphenylene sulfide be added to the list of taxable substances under §4672(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The Census Bureau announced the list of areas that qualified as urban based on the results of the 2020 Census for the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas.