December: Environmental Protection Agency publishes 54 notices

There were 54 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, 2022.

The Environmental Protection Agency published 62 the month before, marking a 12.9 percent decrease 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	12/30/2022
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement Agreement for Removal Action by Prospective Purchaser and Proposed CERCLA Administrative Cost Recovery Settlement: Wells G&H Superfund Site, Woburn, Massachusetts	12/29/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (Renewal)	12/28/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Clay Ceramics Manufacturing, Glass Manufacturing, and Secondary Nonferrous Metals Processing Area Sources (Renewal)	12/28/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Data Requirements Rule for the 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard (Renewal)	12/28/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reporting in the FIFRA Grant Database (Renewal)	12/27/2022
Notification of Request for Nominations to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council	12/27/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Foreign Purchaser Acknowledgement Statement of Unregistered Pesticides (Renewal)	12/27/2022
Datawiz Corporation, DMI and WIPRO; Transfer of Data	12/27/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Petroleum Refineries: Catalytic Cracking Units, Catalytic Reforming Units, and Sulfur Recovery Units (Renewal)	12/27/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Motor Vehicle and Engine Compliance Program Fees (Renewal)	12/27/2022
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, Michigan Environment Great Lakes, & Energy (EGLE)	12/27/2022
Carbon Tetrachloride; Revision to Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Risk Determination; Notice of Availability	12/27/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration (CISWI) Units (Renewal)	12/27/2022
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/23/2022
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Orange County, North Carolina)	12/23/2022
Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Advisory Committee (FRRCC); Notice of Public Meeting	12/23/2022
Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit	12/23/2022
Pesticide Registration Review; Proposed Interim Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability	12/23/2022
Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) Meeting	12/22/2022
Proposed CERCLA Cost Recovery Settlement for the Jewett White Lead Company Superfund Site, Located on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York	12/21/2022
Cumulative Risk Assessment; Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC); Request for Nominations of ad hoc Expert Reviewers and Notice of Public Meeting	12/21/2022
Notice of Public Meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) With Webcast	12/21/2022
Pesticides; Evaluating the Efficacy of Antimicrobial Test Substances on Porous Surfaces in Non-Residential Settings; Interim Guidance and Methods; Notice of Availability and Request for Comments	12/21/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing and Phosphate Fertilizers Production (Renewal)	12/20/2022
Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permits for Lucid Energy Delaware, LLC, Frac Cat and Big Lizard Compressor Stations, Lea County, New Mexico	12/20/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Off-Site Waste and Recovery Operations (Renewal)	12/20/2022
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Mineral Wool Production (Renewal)	12/20/2022
Proposed Information Collection Request; Evaluating End User Satisfaction of EPA's Research Products (Renewal)	12/19/2022
n-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP); Revision to Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Risk Determination; Notice of Availability	12/19/2022
Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and Status Information for November 2022	12/19/2022
1-Bromopropane (1-BP); Revision to Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Risk Determination; Notice of Availability	12/19/2022
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/16/2022
Notice of Rescheduled Public Hearing Regarding Notice of Intent To Suspend Dimethyl Tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA) Technical Registration	12/16/2022
Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board BenMAP and Benefits Methods Panel	12/15/2022
DQB Males (Wolbachia pipientis, DQB Strain, Contained in Live Adult Culex quinquefasciatus Males); Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption, Solicitation of Public Comment	12/15/2022
Pesticides; Removal of PFAS Chemicals From Approved Inert Ingredient List for Pesticide Products	12/14/2022
Certain New Chemicals or Significant New Uses; Statements of Findings for August and September 2022	12/14/2022
Perchloroethylene (PCE); Revision to Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Risk Determination; Notice of Availability	12/14/2022
Chlorpyrifos; Notice of Intent To Cancel Pesticide Registrations	12/14/2022
Public Hearing for RFS Standards for 2023-2025 and Other Changes	12/13/2022
Chlorpyrifos; Notice of Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations and Amend Registrations To Terminate/Amend Certain Uses	12/13/2022
Public Meeting of the Chartered Science Advisory Board	12/12/2022
Call for Information on the Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen-Health Criteria	12/09/2022
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/09/2022
Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) Meeting	12/07/2022
Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board; Membership	12/05/2022
Availability of the IRIS Assessment Plan and Protocol for Assessing Cancer Risk From Inhalation Exposure to Cobalt and Cobalt Compounds; Public Science Meeting Postponement	12/02/2022
Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC): Notice of Meeting	12/02/2022
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	12/02/2022
Pesticide Emergency Exemptions; Agency Decisions and State and Federal Agency Crisis Declarations	12/02/2022
United States Department of Justice and Parties to Certain Litigation; Transfer of Data	12/02/2022
Pesticide Registration Review; Proposed Interim Decision for Carbaryl; Notice of Availability	12/01/2022
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee Meeting-December 2022	12/01/2022