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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a request from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to revise its State Implementation Plan (SIP) by updating information for the Metropolitan Council Environmental Service (MCES) Metropolitan Council Wastewater Treatment Plant (Metro Plant) in Ramsey County, Minnesota. This SIP revision is being proposed in conjunction with an amendment to a part 70 permit maintaining federally enforceable title I SIP conditions. This SIP revision would result in a reduction of allowable emissions of particulate matter less than 10 microns (PM<INF>10</INF>) emitted by the facility.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving the redesignation of the Salt Lake City, Utah and Provo, Utah nonattainment areas (NAAs) to attainment for the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 2.5 microns (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS), and also approving multiple related State Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions. We are approving SIP revisions submitted by the State of Utah on January 19, 2017; February 4 and 15, 2019; January 13, 2020; December 17, 2020; and July 15, 2025. These SIP submissions include revisions to Utah Administrative Code (UAC) section R307-110; revisions to Utah state law SIP sections IX.H.11, 12, and 13; best available control measures/best available control technologies (BACM/ BACT) PM<INF>2.5</INF> determinations for Salt Lake City and Provo; maintenance plans for the Salt Lake City and Provo areas for PM<INF>2.5</INF> including motor vehicle emissions budgets used for transportation conformity purposes; and the request for redesignation under the 2006 24-hour PM<INF>2.5</INF> standard. The EPA is also finding the budgets adequate for transportation conformity purposes. The EPA is taking this action pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve a revision to the Maricopa County Air Quality Department (MCAQD) portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP). This revision concerns emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from petroleum solvents used in dry cleaning. We are approving a local rule that regulates these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or "Act").
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or "Agency") is proposing to determine that the Phoenix-Mesa nonattainment area ("Phoenix-Mesa area") would have attained the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) by the August 3, 2024 "Moderate" area attainment date, but for emissions emanating from outside the United States. If we finalize this proposed action, the Phoenix-Mesa area would no longer be subject to the Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements pertaining to reclassification upon failure to attain and therefore would remain classified as a Moderate nonattainment area for the 2015 ozone NAAQS. This action, when finalized, will fulfill the EPA's statutory obligation to determine whether the Phoenix-Mesa area attained the NAAQS by the attainment date.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Rhode Island. This revision is an amended regulation for the Enhanced Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) program in Rhode Island. Overall, the submittal removes obsolete references, adds definitions, and clarifies the Rhode Island I/M program requirements, which consist primarily of conducting Onboard Diagnostics (OBD) testing. The intended effect of this action is to approve of the State's amended I/M program regulation into the Rhode Island SIP. This action is being taken in accordance with the Clean Air Act.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Connecticut. These SIP revisions relate to the 2008 8-Hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The SIP revisions consist of the following: 2014 and 2017 calendar year periodic emissions inventories. This action is being taken under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve the request from the State of Kansas (the State) to redesignate portions of Saline County, Salina, Kansas (Salina area) to attainment for the 2008 lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The EPA's approval of the redesignation request is based on the determination that the Salina area has met the criteria for redesignation to attainment set forth in the Clean Air Act (CAA), including the determination that the area has attained the standard. Additionally, the EPA is granting final approval of the State's plan for maintaining the 2008 lead NAAQS in the Salina area for ten years beyond redesignation.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing approval of the State implementation plan (SIP) submission, submitted by the State of Alaska (Alaska or the State) on December 4, 2024, to address Clean Air Act requirements for the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) national ambient air quality standard in the Fairbanks North Star Borough PM<INF>2.5</INF> nonattainment area. Alaska's submission includes SIP revisions to meet nonattainment planning requirements for emissions inventories, modeling and sulfur dioxide precursor demonstration for major stationary sources, control measures, attainment projection date, reasonable further progress requirements, motor vehicle emissions budgets, and contingency measures.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving elements of a state implementation plan (SIP) submission from Montana regarding the infrastructure requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the 2015 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The infrastructure requirements are designed to ensure that the structural components of each state's air quality management program are adequate to meet the state's responsibilities under the CAA. Additionally, EPA is finalizing approval of Montana's request to update their SIP to incorporate the most recent version of EPA's "Guidelines on Air Quality Models." EPA is taking this action pursuant to the CAA.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a revision to the Colorado State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revision includes changes to the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance (I/M) program of the State of Colorado. The EPA is taking this action pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to redesignate the nonattainment area in Muscatine County, Iowa to attainment for the 2010 1-hour sulfur dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). The EPA is also approving Iowa's maintenance plan for the 2010 1-hour SO<INF>2</INF> NAAQS for the Muscatine nonattainment area and approving modifications to source-specific permits in the Iowa State Implementation Plan (SIP). The EPA is taking this action in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Ohio has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for final authorization of changes to its hazardous waste program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended. The EPA has reviewed Ohio's application and has determined that these changes satisfy all requirements needed to qualify for final authorization. Therefore, we are proposing to authorize the State's changes. The EPA seeks public comment prior to taking final action.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving the limited maintenance plan (LMP) for the 2006 PM<INF>2.5</INF> national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for the New Jersey portion of both of New Jersey's multi-state maintenance areas: the Northern New Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT (Northern New Jersey) maintenance area and the New Jersey portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE (Southern New Jersey) maintenance area. This LMP was submitted on July 6, 2023, and supplemented on June 6, 2024, by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). The plan addresses the second 10-year maintenance period for particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 2.5 micrometers, known as PM<INF>2.5</INF>. This action is being taken in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA). The EPA is approving New Jersey's LMP submission for the Northern New Jersey and Southern New Jersey maintenance areas because it provides for the maintenance of the 2006 24-hour PM<INF>2.5</INF> NAAQS through the end of the second 10-year portion of the maintenance period. In addition, the EPA finds adequate and is approving the LMP because it meets the appropriate transportation conformity requirements. EPA proposed to approve this action on July 31, 2025.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving revisions to the Michigan State Implementation Plan (SIP) that Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) submitted on March 8, 2022. These revisions amend Michigan's SIP- approved rules for minor New Source Review (NSR) found in Michigan Air Pollution Control Rules Part 2, Air Use Approval. This action updates Michigan's minor NSR rules in the SIP to exempt certain processes and equipment from the requirement to obtain a preconstruction permit.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Vermont on July 1, 2024, as satisfying applicable requirements under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's Regional Haze Rule for the program's second implementation period. Vermont's SIP submission addresses the requirement that states must periodically revise their long-term strategies for making reasonable progress towards the national goal of preventing any future, and remedying any existing, anthropogenic impairment of visibility, including regional haze, in mandatory Class I Federal areas. The SIP submission also addresses other applicable requirements for the second implementation period of the regional haze program. This action is being taken in accordance with the Clean Air Act.
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of fluopyram (CASRN 658066-35-4) in or on mango. Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), The United States Department of Agriculture--Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) submitted a petition to EPA requesting that EPA establish a maximum permissible level for residues of this pesticide in or on the identified commodity.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve the State of Arizona's "SIP Revision: 2015 Ozone NAAQS, Yuma Redesignation Request and Maintenance Plan" ("Yuma Maintenance Plan" or "Plan") as a revision to the Arizona state implementation plan (SIP). The Yuma Maintenance Plan includes, among other elements, an emissions inventory consistent with attainment, a maintenance demonstration, contingency provisions, and a motor vehicle emissions budget for use in transportation conformity determinations for the ten-year maintenance period. With this action, the EPA is approving the motor vehicle emissions budgets for 2020, 2030, and 2037. The EPA is also approving the State's request to redesignate the Yuma nonattainment area ("Yuma area") from nonattainment to attainment for the 8-hour national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone promulgated in 2015 ("2015 ozone NAAQS"). The EPA is finalizing this action because this SIP revision meets the applicable Clean Air Act (CAA or "Act") requirements for maintenance plans and because the State has met the requirements under the Act for redesignation of a nonattainment area to attainment with respect to the Yuma area.
This rule codifies in the regulations the prior approval of Arkansas' hazardous waste management program and incorporates by reference authorized provisions of the State's statutes and regulations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses the regulations entitled "Approved State Hazardous Waste Management Programs" to provide notice of the authorization status of State programs and to incorporate by reference those provisions of the State statutes and regulations that are authorized, and that EPA will enforce under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, commonly referred to as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The EPA previously provided notices and opportunity for comments on the Agency's decisions to authorize the State of Arkansas program and the EPA is not now reopening the decisions, nor requesting comments, on the Arkansas authorizations as previously published in the Federal Register documents specified in section I.C of this final rule document.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving both a redesignation request and state implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted on August 12, 2024 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The request asked the EPA to redesignate the Beaver County, Pennsylvania area (Beaver County Area) from nonattainment to attainment for the 2010 1-hour primary sulfur dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), while the SIP revision included Beaver County's maintenance plan for the 2010 1-hour primary SO<INF>2</INF> standard for the Beaver County Area. The EPA is approving this redesignation of the Beaver County Area from nonattainment to attainment for the 2010 SO<INF>2</INF> NAAQS and the revision to the Pennsylvania SIP in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking direct final action to conform the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act hazardous chemical inventory reporting regulations to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Hazard Communication Standard amendments of 2012 and 2024. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and its regulations rely on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Hazard Communication Standard for the definition of a hazardous chemical and for the categories of health and physical hazards that must be reported under the hazardous chemical inventory regulations. This action will conform the terminology used and information that must be reported on the hazardous chemical inventory forms to the Hazard Communication Standard amendments. As a result, this action will also improve first responder and community safety, reduce discrepancies and confusion, prevent interpretation burdens on facilities when using (Material) Safety Data Sheets to complete annual hazardous chemical inventory reports, and improve clarity.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking interim final action to revise the transition date in recent amendments to the requirements in Subpart J of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) that governs the use of dispersants, other chemicals, and other spill mitigating substances when responding to oil discharges into jurisdictional waters of the United States. Specifically, the EPA is revising the date until which products listed on the current NCP Product Schedule will remain conditionally listed and available for use from December 12, 2025, to June 10, 2026, for certain agent categories for which there are no new products listed as of December 12, 2025, in accordance with recently amended testing and listing criteria. This rule will become effective immediately while the Agency seeks comments on this targeted revision to the new NCP Product Schedule transition date. EPA will respond and update this interim final action as appropriate.
This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of fluazinam (CASRN 79622-59-6) in or on pear, Asian. Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), ISK Biosciences Corporation submitted a petition to EPA requesting that EPA establish a maximum permissible level for residues of this pesticide on in or on the identified commodity.
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of various fragrance components listed in Unit II of this document when used as an inert ingredient in antimicrobial formulations applied to food-contact surfaces in public eating places, dairy-processing equipment, and food-processing equipment and utensils under 40 CFR 180.940(a) when the end-use concentration does not exceed 5 parts per million (ppm). Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), Innovative Reform Group, on behalf of The Clorox Company, submitted a petition to EPA requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of various fragrance components, when used in accordance with the terms of those exemptions.
This regulation establishes a time-limited tolerance for residues of chlorantraniliprole, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on rice, grain. This action is in response to EPA's granting of an emergency exemption under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizing use of the pesticide on rice. This regulation establishes a maximum permissible level for residues of chlorantraniliprole. The time-limited tolerance expires on December 31, 2028.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is approving the North Dakota Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) partial permit program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). After reviewing the CCR permit program application submitted by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (NDDEQ), EPA has determined that North Dakota's partial CCR permit program meets the standard for approval under RCRA. North Dakota's CCR permit program will operate in lieu of the Federal CCR program with the exception of the specific provisions noted below.
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of castor oil, polymer with 2-ethylhexanol, maleic anhydride and soybean oil, sodium salt (CAS No. 3057850-65-1) minimum number average molecular weight 4571; when used as an inert ingredient in a pesticide chemical formulation under 40 CFR 180.960. Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), Spring Regulatory Sciences on behalf of Ashland Specialty Ingredients G.P. submitted a petition to EPA requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of castor oil, polymer with 2-ethylhexanol, maleic anhydride and soybean oil, sodium salt on food or feed commodities when used in accordance with these exemptions.
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of oxirane, methyl-, polymer with oxirane, monobutyl ether (CAS Reg. No. 9038-95-3) minimum number average molecular weight 800 Daltons and a limitation of 10% for oxirane, 2- methyl-, polymer with oxirane, monomethyl ether (CAS Reg. No. 9063-06- 3) minimum number average molecular weight 800 Daltons as inert ingredients when used as an inert ingredient (adjuvant, carrier, diluent or solvent) on growing crops and raw agricultural commodities pre- and post-harvest under 40 CFR 180.910 and to animals under 40 CFR 180.930. Spring Regulatory Sciences on behalf of Evonik Corporation submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), requesting establishment of an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of oxirane, methyl-, polymer with oxirane, monobutyl ether and oxirane, 2-methyl-, polymer with oxirane, monomethyl ether, when used in accordance with the terms of those exemptions.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to conform the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act hazardous chemical inventory reporting regulations to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Hazard Communication Standard amendments of 2012 and 2024. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and its regulations rely on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Hazard Communication Standard for the definition of a hazardous chemical and for the categories of health and physical hazards that must be reported under the hazardous chemical inventory regulations. This action proposes to conform the terminology used and information that must be reported on the hazardous chemical inventory forms to the Hazard Communication Standard amendments. As a result, this proposed action would also improve first responder and community safety, reduce discrepancies and confusion, prevent interpretation burdens on facilities when using (Material) Safety Data Sheets to complete annual hazardous chemical inventory reports, and improve clarity. In the "Rules and Regulations" section of this Federal Register, we are intending to implement the proposed amendments in this proposed rule as a direct final rule without a prior proposed rule. If we receive no adverse comment, we will not take further action on this proposed rule.
Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve identified portions of revisions to the Oklahoma State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of Oklahoma designee between 2002 and 2025 to update the Oklahoma New Source Review (NSR) permit program and make general updates to the Oklahoma SIP.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine a revision to the State of New York's State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) related to a Source-specific SIP (SSSIP) revision for Calpine JFK Energy Center, located at Kennedy International Airport, Building 49, Jamaica, NY 11430 (the Facility) is approvable. The EPA is proposing to find that the control options in this SSSIP revision implement Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) with respect to NO<INF>X</INF> emissions from the relevant Facility sources, which are identified as six mid-size emergency hot water boilers. This SSSIP revision is intended to implement NO<INF>X</INF> RACT for the relevant Facility sources in accordance with the requirements for implementation of the 2008 and 2015 ozone NAAQS. The EPA proposes to determine that this action will not interfere with ozone NAAQS requirements and meets all applicable requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).