NMFS proposed to designate and authorize the release of nonessential experimental populations of Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon and Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon in the McCloud and Upper Sacramento Rivers upstream of Shasta Dam, California, and established a limited set of take exceptions for the experimental populations under the ESA.

EPA seeks comment on the accuracy and completeness of the data, ease of use, graphics, and recommendations on future updates for its interactive map of recycling markets that highlights existing recycling infrastructure, per capita generation and recycling of post-consumer materials, and other relevant market factors.

SIP Approval: California (revision concerning emissions of volatile organic compounds from solvent cleaning and degreasing operations in the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District).

FWS initiated five-year status reviews under the ESA for 67 animal and plant species, and requested the submission of scientific and commercial data that has become available since the last review of the species.

EPA and NOAA proposed to find that Michigan has satisfied all conditions the agencies established as part of their 1997 approval of the state’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program under the CZMA.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed to implement §307 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act and amend Regulation Z to address how the Truth in Lending Act applies to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) transactions to account for the unique nature of PACE.

FWS reclassified Furbish’s lousewort from endangered to threatened under the ESA and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the species.

SIP Approval: California (revisions to nonattainment new source review requirements for the 2015 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the Bay Area Air Quality Management District).

United States v. 3V Sigma USA, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-01832-DCN (D.S.C. May 3, 2023). A settling CAA defendant must perform injunctive relief and pay a $731,250 civil penalty in connection with violations of the NESHAP for Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing at its specialty chemical manufacturing plant in Georgetown, South Carolina.

EPA finalized amendments to the new source performance standards for Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Surface Coating Operations pursuant to the review required by the CAA.