Summary of regulatory and statutory changes for environmental, health, safety, and sustainability issues for December 2015.

1. December 2015
Regulatory Area Affected Entities? Regulation Name Description Link Market
Air (Electric Utility Steam
Generating Units [EGUs])
Fossil fuel-fired EGUs Supplemental Finding That It Is
Appropriate and Necessary To
Regulate Hazardous Air Pollutants
(HAPs) From Coal- and Oil-Fired
EGUs
PROPOSED SUPPLEMENTAL FINDING AND
REQUEST FOR COMMENT 12/1/15
Solicits comments on proposed supplemental
finding that consideration of cost does not alter
the agency's previous conclusion that it is
appropriate to regulate coal- and oil-fired EGUs.
Comments are due by 1/15/16.
80 FR 75025 Power
Air (Petroleum) Petroleum refineries Petroleum Refinery Sector Risk and
Technology Review and New Source
Performance Standards
40 CFR Part 63 Subpart CC (Refinery
Maximum Achievable Control
Technology [MACT] 1)
40 CFR Part 63 Subpart UUU
(Refinery MACT 2)
FINAL RULE 12/1/15
Finalizes revisions to the national emission
standards for hazardous air pollutants
(NESHAP) for petroleum refineries. Revisions
include:
-installing monitors to monitor fence-line
concentrations of benzene by 2/1/18
-new emission standards for delayed cokers
-requirement to improve the operating
efficiency of flaring operations
Effective date is 2/1/16.
80 FR 75177 Upstream/Downstream
O&G
Air (National Ambient Air
Quality Standard [NAAQS])
Facilities that monitor ambient air Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
(CSAPR) for the 2008 NAAQS
PROPOSED RULE 12/3/15
Proposes updates to the CSAPR to address
interstate emission transport with respect to
the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
Comments are due by 2/1/16.
80 FR 75705 All
Air (Aerospace) Aerospace manufacturers and
rework facilities
NESHAP for Aerospace
Manufacturing and Rework Facilities
Risk and Technology Review
40 CFR Part 63 Subpart GG
FINAL RULE 12/7/15
Finalizes several amendments to the Aerospace
Manufacturing and Rework Facilities NESHAP
including:
-Adding limitations to reduce organic and
inorganic emissions of HAPs from specialty
coating application operations
-removing exemptions for periods of startup,
shutdown and malfunction such that emission
standards are applicable at all times
-revising provisions to address recordkeeping
and reporting requirements
-Adding a requirement to report performance
testing through the Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA's) Compliance and Emissions
Data Reporting Interface
Effective date is 12/7/15.
80 FR 76151 Manufacturing/Metals/Mini
ng/Transportation
Air (Greenhouse Gas [GHG]) Power plants, refineries, chemical
plants, underground coal mines and
other large facilities that report
their GHG emissions
2015 Revisions and Confidentiality
Determinations for Data Elements
Under the GHG Reporting Rule
40 CFR Part 98
PROPOSED RULE SIGNED 12/21/15 BUT NOT
YET PUBLISHED IN FEDERAL REGISTER
Proposes changes for how facilities are required
to report their GHG emissions.
Comments are due 45 days after publication in
the Federal Register.
EPA Proposed GHG Rule All
Air (Public Notice) Major source air permit applicants Revisions to the Public Notice
Provisions in Clean Air Act
Permitting Program
40 CFR Parts 51, 52, 55, 70, 71 and
124
PROPOSED RULE 12/29/15
Proposes to remove the mandatory
requirement to provide public notice of a draft
air permit and certain other program actions
through publication in a newspaper and instead
allow for electronic notice of these actions.
Comments are due by 2/29/16.
80 FR 81234 All
FINAL AND PROPOSED RULES, December 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:
-Big sandy crawfish: Endangered
-Guyandotte River Crayfish: Endangered
-Lion subspecies panthera leo leo: Endangered
-Lion subspecies p.l. melanochaita: Threatened
80 FR 77598
The Endangered Species Listing 80 FR 80000
of endangered and threatened wildlife also
was amended to include, remove, and revise
several entries based on previously published
determinations.
Natural Resources (Refuges) Oil and gas industry Management of Non-Federal Oil
and Gas Rights
50 CFR Parts 28 and 29
PROPOSED RULE 12/11/15
Proposes revisions to regulations governing oil
and gas development in refuges and
establishing a new permitting process.
Comments are due by 2/9/16.
80 FR 77199 Upstream/Downstream
O&G
Water (Drinking Water) Public water systems
Community water systems and non-
transient non-community water
system required to monitor.
Revisions to the Unregulated
Contaminant Monitoring Rule
(UCMR 4) for Public Water Systems
and Announcement of a Public
Meeting
40 CFR Part 141
PROPOSED RULE 12/11/15
Proposes a Safe Drinking Water Act rule that
requires public water systems to collect
occurrence data for contaminants that may be
present in tap water but are not yet subject to
EPA's drinking water standards.
Comments are due by 2/9/16.
80 FR 76897 All
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