EPA finalized clarifications to its NPDES Stormwater Phase II regulations due to recent changes made by the Census Bureau, clarifying that the designation criteria for small municipal separate storm sewer systems will remain the same.

USDA seeks comment on the 2023 update to Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity‐Scale Inventory, which provides methods to quantify entity-scale greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors.  

SIP Approval: Michigan (nonattainment new source review requirements for the 2015 ozone NAAQS).

SIP Proposal: Michigan (nonattainment new source review requirements for the 2015 ozone NAAQS).

United States v. New York, City of, No. 1:23-CV-4129 (E.D.N.Y. June 5, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $1.6 million for past costs incurred by EPA and fund and perform remedial work, including the removal of soil and sediments exhibiting levels exceeding the remediation goals in the impacted sewers and beneath the roadway and sidewalks, at the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company Superfund site in Ridgewood, New York.

CEQ requested input to inform the development of an Ocean Justice Strategy, which will describe the vision, goals, and high-level objectives for coordinating and guiding ocean justice activities across the federal government.

FWS proposed to list the swale paintbrush as endangered under the ESA.

BLM withdrew approximately 336,404.42 acres of public lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park from location and entry under U.S. mining laws and from leasing under mineral leasing laws, but not mineral materials laws, subject to valid existing rights, to protect these public lands and the greater connected landscape with a rich Puebloan, Tribal Nation, and cultural legacy in San Juan, Sandoval, and McKinley counties, New Mexico, for a period of 20 years.

SIP Approval: Wisconsin (revisions related to volatile organic compound reasonably available control technology requirements for the Miscellaneous Industrial Adhesives and Miscellaneous Metal and Plastic Parts Coatings Control Techniques Guidelines source categories).

SIP Approval: California (limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions concerning nitrogen oxide emissions from Portland cement kilns in the Eastern Kern Air Pollution Control District).