The Department of Agriculture proposed amendments to its pesticide regulations. The revisions would add and create standards for the use and application of barrier mosquitocides. Comments are due April 24, 2023. See https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/index/register/volume47/register_volume47_10.pdf (pp. 3144- 52).
The Department of Environmental Conservation proposed to reissue the Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit to discharge to waters of the United States. The permit authorizes discharges of wastewater from certain highbankers and suction dredges and pump engine horsepower.
FWS proposed to list the Texas heelsplitter as an endangered species and the Louisiana pigtoe as a threatened species under the ESA; to designate approximately 831.8 river miles in Texas as critical habitat for the Texas heelsplitter, and approximately 1,028.2 river miles in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas as critical habitat for the Louisiana pigtoe; and proposed a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the Louisiana pigtoe.
EPA finalized editorial and technical revisions to the Agency's Method 23—Determination of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins, Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans, and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons From Stationary Sources.
EPA announced a 30-day public comment period associated with release of the document, Protocol for the Naphthalene IRIS Assessment.
EPA is accepting written comments on a California Air Resources Board request for the Agency to authorize its adoption of amendments to its Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth regulation and Commercial Harbor Craft regulation under CAA §209(e).
EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on additional data received by the Agency related to the proposed rule for Part 1: Chrysotile Asbestos; Regulations of Certain Conditions of Use Under TSCA.
NMFS proposed to list the sunflower sea star as threatened under the ESA in response to a petition to list this species as threatened or endangered.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced the availability of the proposed notice of sale for the proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261 as required by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
The United States Global Change Research Program requests input from the public to guide an update of the 2009 “Climate Literacy: Essential Principles of Climate Science” to inform the program as it updates the guide to include current climate and social science, and a focus on justice and capacity to implement solutions.