89 FR 7320
SIP Proposal: California (disapproval of revisions to meet requirements for the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin ozone nonattainment area).
SIP Proposal: California (disapproval of revisions to meet requirements for the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin ozone nonattainment area).
SIP Approval: Alabama (2006 24-hour fine particulate matter NAAQS limited maintenance plan for the Birmingham maintenance area).
The Natural Resources Conservation Service gave notice that it intends to issue a series of revised conservation practice standards in the National Handbook of Conservation Practices.
FWS proposed new regulations to support conservation in the National Wildlife Refuge System by providing refuge managers with a consistent approach for evaluating and implementing management actions to ensure biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health, in accordance with the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997.
SIP Proposal: Florida (updates to conformity rule).
United States v. PotlatchDeltic Land & Lumber, LLC, No. 2:24-cv-00043 (D. Idaho Jan. 24, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CWA defendant that violated its NPDES permits related to stormwater discharges from its sawmill and lumberyard facility in St. Maries, Idaho, must pay a $225,000 civil penalty and implement injunctive relief and significant mitigation actions.
United States v. Reading, City of, No. 04-05696 (E.D. Penn. Jan. 24, 2024). A proposed amendment to a consent decree extends the deadlines for completing remaining capital improvement projects for a settling CWA defendant that violated its NPDES permits, the CWA, and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams law by discharging pollutants into the Schuylkill River, failed to enforce the requirements of its pretreatment program for industrial users, and failed to properly operate and maintain its wastewater treatment plant and systems.
SIP Proposal: New Hampshire (amendments to enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program regulation).
EPA found that California failed to submit SIP elements required under the CAA to implement the 2012 NAAQS for fine particulate matter in the Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin.
EPA approved alternative testing methods for use in measuring the levels of contaminants in drinking water to determine compliance with national primary drinking water regulations under the SDWA.