Week ending Feb. 4: Environmental Protection Agency publishes 11 notices

There were 11 notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.

The most recent notice, Final Determination To Prohibit the Specification of and Restrict the Use for Specification of Certain Waters Within Defined Areas as Disposal Sites; Pebble Deposit Area, Southwest Alaska, was submitted on February 3, 2023.

The Environmental Protection Agency published 14 the week before, marking a 21.4 percent decrease.

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 week ending Feb. 4

Title	Publication Date
Final Determination To Prohibit the Specification of and Restrict the Use for Specification of Certain Waters Within Defined Areas as Disposal Sites; Pebble Deposit Area, Southwest Alaska	02/03/2023
Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability	02/03/2023
Proposed Consent Decree, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Citizen Suit	02/03/2023
Certain New Chemicals or Significant New Uses; Statements of Findings for October and November 2022	02/01/2023
Pesticide Registration Review; Proposed Decisions for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability	02/01/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Treatment of Indian Tribes in a Similar Manner as States for Purposes of Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (Renewal)	01/30/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Consolidated Superfund Information Collection Request (Renewal)	01/30/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Criteria for Classification of Solid Waste Disposal Facilities and Practices (Renewal)	01/30/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Institutional Dual Use Research of Concern (iDURC) Policy Compliance (Renewal)	01/30/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; State and Federal Emission Guidelines for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (Renewal)	01/30/2023
Pesticide Registration Review; Decisions and Case Closures for Several Pesticides; Notice of Availability	01/30/2023