89 FR 16496
SIP Proposal: Kentucky (revisions to definitions and incorporation by reference dates).
SIP Proposal: Kentucky (revisions to definitions and incorporation by reference dates).
SIP Approval: Kentucky (revisions to rules regarding major stationary sources that are located within or have emissions that impact nonattainment areas, and revisions to nonattainment new source review planning requirements for the 2015 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in Jefferson County).
EPA Region 4 reissued the NPDES general permit for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category located and discharging to the outer continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
SIP Approval: California (nonattainment fees in the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District).
EPA lowered the level of the primary annual fine particulate matter standard and finalized other key aspects related to the particulate matter NAAQS.
EPA finalized maximum achievable control technology standards for mercury and revised emission standards for hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride for NESHAPs for taconite iron ore processing.
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in Our Children’s Earth Foundation v. Regan, No. 3:23-cv-04955-WHA (N.D. Cal.), that would establish deadlines for EPA to sign a notice of final rulemaking on certain SIP revisions.
A district court granted summary judgment for a conservation group in a challenge to the Natural Resource Conservation Service's (NRCS') 2020 rule regarding certification of maps delineating wetlands. The group argued NRCS changed its policy regarding pre-1996 wetland certifications without exercisi...