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Energy & Environment Monitor |
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04/29/2009 |
- EPA’s Proposed FY2011 Budget “Cut” 2.7% from FY2010, but still up 31% from FY2009
If you get a 31% pay raise this year, would you complain about a 2.7% cut in your salary next year? No way! That’s the situation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where the budgetary good times keep on...
- EPA Launches New Web Site for Regulatory Information
On February 18, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a new web site called Rulemaking Gateway located at http://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/RuleGate.nsf/. EPA’s stated purpose in establishing the web site is to create transparency and give the public additional opportunity to...
- Update on U.S. EPA’s Priority Waste Rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified three “priority” waste rulemakings on its new Regulatory Gateway web site. They are: (1) Identification of Non-Hazardous Materials That Are Solid Wastes; (2) Standards for the Management of Coal Combustion Residuals Generated...
- US EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Sends Letter to West Virginia’s Senator Rockefeller
On February 22, 2010, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson sent a letter to West Virginia’s Senator Jay D. Rockefeller IV responding to his concern about the U.S. EPA’s efforts to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v....
- Status of WV Voluntary Land Stewardship Program
In previous articles I have discussed the ongoing process by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) to develop a West Virginia Voluntary Land Stewardship Program (VLSP) in West Virginia. The WVDEP envisions that the VLSP would be a...
- EPA’s Science Advisory Board Seeks Nomination to Panel to Review Studies on MTR and Conductivity in Water Discharges: Review is Likely Precursor to Effort to Regulate Conductivity
EPA’s Science Advisory Board (“SAB”) has issued two federal register notices seeking nominations to a proposed panel that would review and provide advice on two draft documents prepared by EPA which address surface mining in Central Appalachia. The first notice,...
- EPA Proposes to Repeal PM10 Grandfathering Provision and End the PM10 Surrogate Policy
On February 11, 2010, EPA proposed (75 Fed Reg 6827-6836) two actions that would end it’s 1997 policy that allows sources and permitting authorities to use a demonstration of compliance with the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) requirements for particulate...
- EPA Extends Expiration Date of Stormwater General Permit
On January 28, 2010, EPA announced that Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 were modifying the 2008 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permits for stormwater discharges associated with construction activity. 75 Fed. Reg....
- Proposed Lead Monitoring Changes
On December 23, 2009 the US EPA proposed to revise the ambient monitoring requirements for measuring airborne lead. These rule amendments would improve the lead monitoring network to better assess compliance with the revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)...
- West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) Pending Regulation 47CSR10 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Program as it relates to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in West Virginia
Proposed regulation 47CSR10 for CAFOs is currently awaiting approval in the West Virginia legislature. The passage is almost assured, since denial of the regulation would result in federal administration of the NPDES permitting of large chicken and turkey farming operations....
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