The Office of Restoration and Damage Assessment seeks comments and suggestions from state, tribal, and federal natural resource co-trustees, other affected parties, and the interested public on revising the simplified Type A procedures in the regulations for conducting natural resource damage assessments and restoration for hazardous substance releases.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced and seeks comment on its intention to change its bid adequacy procedures, which ensure the United States receives fair market value from outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sales, by discontinuing the use of both tract classification and delayed valuation methodology and using a statistical lower bound confidence interval, at the 90 percent confidence level, as a measure of bid adequacy.

EPA seeks comment and recommendations on the National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for fiscal years 2024-2027 (formerly called “National Compliance Initiatives”).

EPA responded to a rulemaking petition from the Center for Biological Diversity requesting that discarded polyvinyl chloride be listed as a hazardous waste under RCRA, tentatively denying the petition and soliciting public comment on the tentative denial.

EPA adjusted the level of the maximum (and minimum) statutory civil monetary penalty amounts under the statutes the Agency administers.

DOT announced the statutorily-prescribed 2023 adjustment to civil penalty amounts that may be imposed for violations of certain Department regulations.

The Internal Revenue Service announced that a petition had been filed requesting that polyphenylene sulfide be added to the list of taxable substances under §4672(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

EPA announced a proposed settlement comprised of two administrative agreements in which settling CERCLA defendants must pay $1.2 million in reimbursement of past response costs paid by the United States in connection with an ongoing removal action at the Wells G&H Superfund site in Woburn, Massachusetts.

The Census Bureau announced the list of areas that qualified as urban based on the results of the 2020 Census for the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas.

The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it plans to consult with federally recognized Indian tribes in the agency's 17 western states on implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act as it applies to tribes.