News & Analysis In the Agencies Volumes
81 FR 95047
12/27/2016
Update Type
Final Rules

SIP Approval: New York (nonattainment new source review and attainment new source review program requirements for particulate matter and greenhouse gases).

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47
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2
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47
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1
81 FR 95550
12/28/2016
Update Type
Proposed Rules

SIP Proposal: Illinois (update the definition of volatile organic material to exclude 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol).

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47
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2
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47
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1
82 FR 792
01/04/2017
Update Type
Proposed Rules

SIP Proposal: Ohio (redesignation of the Ohio portion of the Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-IN-KY, nonattainment area to attainment for the 1997 fine particulate matter NAAQS).

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47
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3
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47
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1
82 FR 2295
01/09/2017
Update Type
Proposed Rules

SIP Proposal: Tennessee (infrastructure requirements for the 2012 fine particulate matter NAAQS).

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47
Issue
3
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47
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2
82 FR 4420
01/13/2017
Update Type
Notices

United States v. Estate of Dorothy Medore, No. 5:17-cv-00029 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 9, 2017). A settling CERCLA trustee must deposit an initial amount of $150,000 in an interest-bearing escrow account and liquidate all remaining estate property to be paid to the United States to pay remediation costs incurred at both the Banaire Enterprises and Banaire Radium Trailers Superfund sites in Cabazon, California.

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47
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3
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47
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2
82 FR 6413
01/19/2017
Update Type
Proposed Rules

SIP Proposal: Washington (update the general air quality regulations as they apply to the Jurisdiction of Southwest Clean Air Agency).

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47
Issue
3
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47
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2
82 FR 7862
01/23/2017
Update Type
Notices

Wisconsin v. NCR Corp., No. 10-cv-910 (E.D. Wis. Jan. 17, 2017). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for polychlorinated biphenyl contamination in sediment at the Lower Fox River and Green Bay Superfund site in northeastern Wisconsin are required to continue and complete the ongoing sediment remediation work at the site, which is currently being performed by EPA.

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47
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3
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47
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3
82 FR 8628
01/27/2017
Update Type
Notices

United States v. Lynn Water and Sewer Comm'n, No. 76-cv-02184-RGS (D. Mass. Jan. 19, 2017). Under a third modified consent decree, a settling CWA defendant is required to implement the combined sewer overflow abatement projects recommended in a 2014 plan, implement a program to detect and eliminate illicit discharges, and pay a civil penalty of $125,000.

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47
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3
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47
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3
82 FR 9349
02/06/2017
Update Type
Final Rules

DOI adjusted civil monetary penalties assessed under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act.

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47
Issue
4
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47
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5