Environmental, health, and safety regulatory review

1. August 2015
Regulatory Area Affected Entities? Regulation Name Description Link Market
Air (Ambient Air Monitoring) Federal, state, territorial, and local
air quality management districts
Office of Research and
Development; Ambient Air
Monitoring Reference and
Equivalent Methods: Designation of
Two New Equivalent Methods
40 CFR Part 53
NOTICE 8/26/15
Announces that the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has designated two
new equivalent methods: one for measuring
concentrations of fine particulates and one for
measuring concentrations of ozone in ambient
air.
80 FR 51802 All
Air (Applicability Determination
Index [ADI])
Sources subject to Clean Air Act Applicability Determination Index
(ADI) Database System Recent
Posting: Applicability
Determinations, Alternative
Monitoring Decisions, and
Regulatory Interpretations
Pertaining to Standards of
Performance for New Stationary
Sources, National Emissions
Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants, and the Stratospheric
Ozone Protection Program
NOTICE 8/21/15
Announces availability of recent additions to
the ADI database. The 42 additions include
updates related to landfills, waste incinerators,
reciprocating internal
combustion engines, boilers, electric generating
units
80 FR 50278 All
Air (Greenhouse Gases [GHGs]) Sources that emit GHGs Prevention of Significant
Deterioration (PSD) and Title V
Permitting for Greenhouse Gases:
Removal of Certain Vacated
Elements
40 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) Parts 51, 52, 70, and 71
FINAL RULE 8/19/15
Removes vacated regulations related to the
Tailoring Rule Step 2 PSD provisions.
Effective date is 8/19/15.
80 FR 50199 All
Air (Landfills) Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
Landfills
Standards of Performance for
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
40 CFR Part 60 Subpart XXX
PROPOSED RULE 8/27/15
Proposes a new subpart that updates Emission
Guidelines and Compliance Times for MSWs.
Comments are due by 10/26/15.
80 FR 52099 All
Air (Landfills) MSW Landfills Standards of Performance for
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
40 CFR Part 60 Subpart WWW
SUPPLEMENTAL PROPOSAL 8/27/15
Supplemental proposal for the Standards of
Performance for MSW Landfills to address the
nonmethane organic compound emission rate
threshold at which an affected MSW landfill
must install controls.
Comments are due by 10/26/15.
80 FR 52162 All
Air (National Ambient Air
Quality Standards [NAAQS])
Federal, state, territorial, and local
air quality management districts
Determinations of Attainment by
the Attainment Date, Extensions of
the Attainment Date, and
Reclassification of Several Areas
Classified as Marginal for the 2008
Ozone National Ambient Air Quality
Standards
40 CFR part 52
PROPOSED RULE 8/27/15
EPA is proposing three separate and
independent determinations related to the 36
areas that are currently classified as "marginal"
for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
- Determine that 17 areas attained the 2008
NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of
7/20/15.
- Grant 1-year attainment date extensions for
eight areas.
- Determine that 11 areas failed to attain the
2008 ozone NAAQS.
80 FR 52002 All
Air (National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants [NESHAP])
Phosphoric acid manufacturing
Phosphate fertilizer production
Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing and
Phosphate Fertilizer Production RTR
and Standards of Performance for
Phosphate Processing
40 CFR Part 63 Subparts AA and BB
40 CFR Part 60 Subparts T, U, V, W
and X
FINAL RULE 8/19/15
Final amendments to the Phosphoric Acid
Manufacturing NESHAP include:
- Numeric emission limits for mercury and total
fluoride emissions from calciners
- Work practice standards for hydrogen fluoride
emissions
- Clarification to the applicability and
monitoring requirements to accommodate
process equipment and technology changes
- Removal of the exemptions for startup,
shutdown, and malfunction
- Adoption of work practice standards for
periods of startup and shutdown
- Revised recordkeeping and reporting
requirements
Final amendments to the Phosphate Fertilizer
Production NESHAP include:
- Clarifications to the applicability and
monitoring requirements to accommodate
process equipment and technology changes
- Removal of the exemptions for startup,
shutdown, and malfunction
- Adoption of work practice standards for
periods of startup and shutdown
- Revised recordkeeping and reporting
requirements
Effective date is 8/19/15.
80 FR 50385 Manufacturing/Metals/
Mining/Transportation
Air (New Source Performance
Standard [NSPS])
Oil and natural gas industry Oil and Natural Gas Sector:
Definitions of Low Pressure Gas
Well and Storage Vessel
40 CFR Part 60, Subpart OOOO
FINAL RULE 8/12/15
Finalizes amendments to NSPS for the Oil and
Natural Gas Sector. EPA re-proposed its
definition of ‘‘low pressure gas well’’ to correct
a procedural defect with its prior rulemaking
that included this definition. EPA also proposed
to amend the NSPS to remove provisions
concerning storage vessels connected or
installed in parallel and to revise the definition
of ‘‘storage vessel.’’ This action finalizes the
definition of ‘‘low pressure gas well’’ and the
amendments to the storage vessel provisions.
Effective date is 8/12/15.
80 FR 48262 Upstream/Downstream
O&G
Air (NSPS) Oil and natural gas industry Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission
Standards for New and Modified
Sources
40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO
PROPOSED RULE 8/18/15
Proposes to amend the NSPS for the Oil and
Natural Gas Sector source category by setting
standards for both methane and volatile
organic compounds for certain equipment,
processes, and activities across this source
category.
Comments are due 60 days after publication in
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EPA Proposed Rule Upstream/Downstream
O&G
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2. Air (Ozone) Federal, state, territorial, and local
air quality management districts
Notice of Availability of the
Environmental Protection Agency's
Updated Ozone Transport Modeling
Data for the 2008 Ozone National
Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS)
NOTICE 8/4/15
Announces availability of updated ozone
transport modeling and associated data and
methods.
Effective date is 9/23/15.
80 FR 46271 All
Natural Resources (Threatened
and Endangered Species)
Activities that disturb or impact the
natural environment
Endangered and Threatened
Species: Proposed Regulations for
the Designation of Experimental
Populations Under the Endangered
Species Act
50 CFR Part 222
PROPOSED RULE 8/3/15
Proposes amendments to the Endangered
Species Act regarding experimental
populations. Amendments include:
- Establishing and/or designating certain
populations of species otherwise listed as
endangered or threatened as experimental
populations
- Determining whether experimental
populations are "essential" or "nonessential"
- Promulgating appropriate protective
measures for experimental populations
Comments are due by 10/2/15.
80 FR 45924 All
Natural Resources (Threatened
and Endangered Species)
Activities that disturb or impact the
natural environment
Endangered and Threatened
Wildlife and Plants
50 CFR Part 17
FINAL AND PROPOSED RULES, AUGUST 2015
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services has amended
and is proposing amendments to the
Endangered Species Act to add several animal
and plant species and make changes to the
designated habitat for already listed species.
Affected species include:
- Honduras Vandenberg monkeyflower: Critical
habitat
- Florida Brickell-bush: Critical habitat
- Hawaiian monk seal: Critical habitat
-Marbled Murrelet: Critical habitat
The list of endangered and threatened wildlife
also was amended to include, remove, and
revise several entries based on previously
published determinations.
Endangered Species Listings All
Nuclear (Radiation) Nuclear Abnormal Occurrence Reports
10 CFR Chapter I
PROPOSED RULE 8/17/15
Proposes to revise the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission's policy statement to clarify criteria
used to determine whether an incident is an
abnormal occurrence.
Comments are due by 11/16/15.
80 FR 49177 Power
Occupational Safety Users and manufacturers of
beryllium or beryllium compounds
Occupational Exposure to Beryllium
and Beryllium Compounds
29 CFR Part 1910
PROPOSED RULE 8/7/15
Proposes to revise the 8-hour time-weighted
average permissible exposure level for
beryllium/beryllium compounds in general
industry to 0.2 microgram per cubic meter.
Various employee protection measures are also
included.
Effective date is 11/5/15.
80 FR 47565 All
Ozone Depleting Substances Users of aerosols, solvents,
adhesives, coatings, and inks
Refrigeration and air conditioning
Foam blowing industry
Protection of Stratospheric Ozone:
Determination 30 For Significant
New Alternatives Policy Program
FINAL RULE 7/16/15
Expands the list of acceptable substitutes for
use in the refrigeration and air conditioning;
foam flowing; solvent cleaning; aerosols; and
adhesives, coatings, and inks sectors.
Effective date is 7/16/15.
80 FR 42053 All
Waste (Hazardous Waste) Entities that generate, treat, store,
or dispose of hazardous or
nonhazardous solid waste
Laboratories that conduct waste
sampling and analyses for waste
Waste Management System;
Testing and Monitoring Activities;
Notice of Availability of Final Update
V of SW-846
NOTICE 8/13/15
Announces availability of the updated Test
Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste,
Physical/Chemical Methods. The document
includes new and revised analytical methods
that may be used in monitoring or complying
with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
regulations.
80 FR 48522 All
Water (Wastewater) Dischargers of wastewater Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines
Program Plan and 2014 Annual
Effluent Guidelines Review Report
NOTICE 8/4/15
Announces the availability of EPA's Final 2014
Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and 2014
Annual Effluent Guidelines Review Report. EPA
is required to publish a plan for new and
revised effluent guidelines biennially.
80 FR 46280 All
Water (Water Quality) Dischargers of pollutants to waters
of the United States
Water Quality Standards Regulatory
Revisions
40 CFR Part 131
FINAL RULE 8/21/15
Updates the federal water quality standards
(WQS) regulations. It revises six program areas
to improve the WQS regulation's effectiveness:
- Clarifies what constitutes an Administrator's
determination that new or revised WQS are
necessary
- Refines how states and authorized tribes
assign and revise designated uses for individual
water bodies
- Revises the triennial review requirements
- Establishes stronger antidegradation
requirements
- Adds new regulatory provisions
- Clarifies that a state or authorized tribe must
adopt, and EPA must approve, a permit
compliance schedule authorizing provision
prior to authorizing the use of schedules of
compliance for water quality-based effluent
limits in National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System permits
Effective date is 10/20/15.
80 FR 51019 All
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