EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on the IRIS assessment plan for inorganic mercury salts, which communicates information on scoping needs and the IRIS program's initial problem formulation activities.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on its document titled Antimicrobial Performance Evaluation Program (APEP): A (Draft) Risk-Based Strategy to Ensure the Effectiveness of Hospital-Level Disinfectants, which provides a framework to ensure that registered hospital-level disinfectants and tuberculocide products continue to meet Agency efficacy standards once they are in the marketplace.

OSHA delayed compliance deadlines for nearly all provisions in occupational exposure standards for beryllium and beryllium compounds in construction and shipyards.

EPA seeks comment on DOE's application documenting continued compliance with the Agency's environmental radiation protection standards for the disposal of radioactive waste at DOE's waste isolation pilot plant.

DOE announced the availability of and seeks comment on its report titled Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective on Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas From the United States: 2019 Update, which is intended to provide additional information to the public and inform DOE's decisions regarding life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of U.S. liquefied natural gas exports for use in electric power generation.

EPA finalized amendments to a rule published in the Federal Register on December 12, 2016, concerning formaldehyde emission standards for composite wood products; the amendments address certain technical issues and further align the rule’s requirements with the California Air Resources Board Airborne Toxic Control Measures Phase II program.

EPA issued significant new use rules under TSCA for 145 chemical substances that are the subject of premanufacture notices.

United States v. Cannery Pier Hotel, LLC, No. 19-cv-01217 (D. Or. Aug. 6, 2019). Settling OPA defendants that discharged oil from a fuel storage tank located under a partially collapsed pier on the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, must pay the National Pollution Fund Center of the U.S. Coast Guard $994,146.43 for costs and damages incurred in response to the spill.

EPA lowered current dust-lead hazard standards for floors and window sills.

EPA seeks comment on its Updated Problem Formulation and Protocol for the Inorganic Arsenic IRIS Assessment; the document summarizes the Agency's needs for the assessment and presents the refined focus based on problem formulation activities conducted since the last assessment plan was released in 2015.