USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service announced the availability of a draft guidance document for use by accredited certifying agents and certified handling operations entitled, Calculating Percentage Organic in Multi-Ingredient Products.

EPA announced the availability of a final report, “National Lakes Assessment 2012: A Collaborative Survey of Lakes in the United States” on the condition of the nation’s lakes, future actions, and challenges.

EPA proposed to update portions of the Outer Continental Shelf air regulations pertaining to the Santa Barbara County and Ventura County air pollution control districts to remain consistent with corresponding onshore requirements.

SIP Proposal: California (partial approval and partial disapproval of revisions to the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District concerning reasonably available control technology requirements for the 1997 and 2008 eight-hour ozone NAAQS).

SIP Proposal: California (revisions to the Imperial County air pollution control district plan).

SIP Approval: California (approved Butte County air quality management district general new source review permitting program, limited approval and limited disapproval of federal new source review, and deleted 10 rules).

EPA Regions 1-10 issued the 2016 NPDES pesticide general permit, which authorizes certain point source discharges from the application of pesticides to waters of the United States and replaces the 2011 permit that expired at midnight on October 31, 2016.

SIP Proposal: Puerto Rico (attainment of the 2008 lead NAAQS for the Arecibo nonattainment area).

FWS finalized regulations governing the exercise of nonfederal oil and gas rights outside of Alaska in order to better protect refuge resources, visitors, and the general public’s health and safety from potential impacts associated with operations located within national wildlife refuges.

United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., No. 4:04-cv-3883 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 10, 2016). A settling CAA defendant responsible for violations at one of its refineries in Lemont, Illinois, must pay a $1,955,000 civil penalty; install low nitrogen oxide burners on three heaters; comply with a stringent limit for particulate matter emissions from the fluid catalytic cracking unit; develop and implement operation and maintenance plans to improve operations and prevent violations at the sulfur recovery plant; implement a flare minimization and flare efficiency program; implement an enhanced leak detection and repair program; use carbon canisters to control benzene emissions from purged process fluids and samples; implement a $650,000 fence line monitoring supplemental environmental project and a $350,000 "green lighting" supplemental environmental project at the local school district; and perform a mitigation project for benzene waste at a cost of approximately $1.14 million.