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Louisiana: Air

The Department of Environmental Quality amended La. Admin. Code tit. 33:III §§111, 311, 501, 605, 918, 919, 1513, 2115, 2139, 2141, 2153, and 5107, relating to the Criteria Pollutant Emissions Inventory. Revisions are intended to allow flexibility in updating the required elements for reporting, as well as make the regulations easier to interpret, enforce, govern, and permit. There will be a public hearing on December 29, 2010, and the deadline for public comment is January 5, 2011. http://www.doa.la.gov/osr/reg/1011/1011.pdf pp.

Illinois: Wildlife

The Department of Natural Resources proposed to amend 17 Ill. Adm. Code 1010, Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Fauna. Changes would add language to state that species or subspecies designated as federally endangered or threatened are included on the list, and add the Northern Riffleshell to the list as a result of the department's reintroduction of the species into two Illinois streams. The deadline for comment is January 10, 2011.

Maine: Air

The Department of Environmental Protection proposed to amend Ch. 117, Source Surveillance § Emissions Monitoring. Changes would update and standardize requirements for air emission sources that are required to continuously monitor their emissions, including technological improvements in air quality monitoring since 1994, the last time the rule was modified. There will be a public hearing on December 16, 2010, and the deadline for comments is December 27. http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules/notices/2010/112410.html.

Maine: Wildlife

The Department of Environmental Protection amended Ch. 1000, State of Maine Guidelines for Municipal Shoreland Zoning Ordinances. Changes alter the date of the data set used for the purposes of establishing Resource Protection District areas, specifically those adjacent to freshwater wetlands that are rated as moderate or high value waterfowl and wading bird habitat by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The date was changed from May 1, 2006, to December 31, 2008. The amendments took effect November 22, 2010.

Maryland: Water

The Department of the Environment amended Md. Code Regs. 26.08.02, Water Quality. Changes update and revise several state and site-specific water quality standards. Among other changes, amendments add numeric toxics criteria for acrolein and phenol and revise intermittent stream regulation. The rule took effect November 29, 2010. http://www.dsd.state.md.us/mdregister/3724.pdf p. 1660.

Missouri: Energy

The Department of Natural Resources amended Mo. Code Regs. tit. 10, §140.8, Certification of Renewable Energy and Renewable Energy Standard Compliance Account. The law is meant to implement Proposition C, Renewable Energy Standard, in which Missouri voters elected to require utility companies to gradually increase their usage of renewable energy annually until 15 percent of the energy used in the state is renewable. http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/moreg/current/2010/v35n23/v35n23b.pdf pp. 1807-11.