48 notices published in December by Environmental Protection Agency

There were 48 notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in December, according to the Federal Register.

The most recent notice, Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability, was submitted on December 30, 2021.

The Environmental Protection Agency published 37 the month before, marking a 29.7 percent increase for the current month.

More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in December

Title	Publication Date
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/30/2021
Consideration of Negotiated Rulemaking for Petitions Granted or Partially Granted Under Subsection (i) of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020	12/29/2021
Cyclic Aliphatic Bromide Cluster (HBCD); Draft Revision to Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Risk Determination; Notice of Availability and Request for Comment	12/29/2021
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Aircraft Engines-Supplemental Information Related To Exhaust Emissions (Renewal)	12/29/2021
Asbestos Part 2: Supplemental Evaluation Including Legacy Uses and Associated Disposals of Asbestos; Draft Scope of the Risk Evaluation To Be Conducted Under the Toxic Substances Control Act; Notice of Availability and Request for Comments	12/29/2021
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Safe and Sustainable Water Resources Subcommittee Meeting-January 2022	12/29/2021
EPA Administrator Determination Extends TRI Reporting Requirements to Certain Contract Sterilization Facilities; Notice of Availability	12/28/2021
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for November 2021	12/28/2021
Proposed Renewal Information Collection Request; Comment Request; EPA Program Information on Source Water Protection	12/28/2021
Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual, Revision 2; Reopening of the Comment Period	12/28/2021
Announcing Upcoming Virtual Meeting on Biofuel Greenhouse Gas Modeling	12/28/2021
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Leather Finishing Operations) (Renewal)	12/27/2021
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Renewal and Consolidation of Two Currently Approved Collections Under Section 5 of the Toxics Substances Control Act; Comment Request	12/27/2021
Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit	12/27/2021
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Chemical Recovery Combustion Sources at Kraft, Soda, Sulfite, and Stand-Alone Semichemical Pulp Mills (Renewal)	12/27/2021
Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Uses-December 2021	12/23/2021
Pesticide Experimental Use Permit; Receipt of Application; Comment Request (December 2021)	12/23/2021
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for Premcor Refining Group Inc., Valero Port Arthur Refinery, Jefferson County, Texas	12/21/2021
Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board; Membership	12/20/2021
Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC); Notice of Public Meeting and Request for Comments on Draft Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Systematic Review Protocol	12/20/2021
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/17/2021
Human Studies Review Board (HSRB); Notification of Public Meetings	12/17/2021
Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Applications for New Active Ingredients-December 2021	12/17/2021
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	12/16/2021
Modernizing Public Notice for RCRA Hazardous Waste Permitting and Other Actions	12/16/2021
Proposed Information Collection Requests; Comment Request: Disinfectants/Disinfection Byproducts, Chemical and Radionuclides Rules, Microbial Rules, and Public Water System Supervision Program Renewal Information Collection Requests	12/15/2021
The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Advisory Board: Request for Nominations	12/14/2021
White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council; Notification of Virtual Public Meeting	12/14/2021
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Risk Management Program Requirements and Petitions To Modify the List of Regulated Substances Under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, EPA ICR Number 1656.18, OMB Control Number 2050-0144	12/14/2021
Notice of Request for Nominations of Candidates to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board	12/14/2021
Final Agency Action To Issue a Prevention of Significant Deterioration Non-Applicability Determination for the AltAir Renewable Fuels Project	12/13/2021
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/10/2021
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)	12/10/2021
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	12/10/2021
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	12/10/2021
Draft EPA Strategy To Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities; Comment Request; Correction	12/09/2021
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	12/08/2021
Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit	12/07/2021
Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board Drinking Water Committee (DWC) Augmented for the Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) 5 Review Panel	12/07/2021
Pesticide Registration Maintenance Fee: Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations	12/07/2021
Re-Issuance of a General Permit to the National Science Foundation for the Ocean Disposal of Man-Made Ice Piers From Its Station at McMurdo Sound in Antarctica	12/07/2021
Good Cause To Extend the Regulatory Time Requirements for Next Steps in 404(c) Review Process, Southwest Alaska	12/06/2021
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/03/2021
Proposed CERCLA Section 122(h) Settlement Agreement for the Maywood Chemical Superfund Site, Boroughs of Maywood and Lodi, and the Township of Rochelle Park, Bergen County, New Jersey	12/02/2021
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Primary Copper Smelters (Renewal)	12/02/2021
Great Lakes Advisory Board Notice for Virtual Meeting	12/01/2021
Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act	12/01/2021
National Environmental Justice Advisory Council; Notification for a Virtual Public Meeting	12/01/2021