On Dec. 30, EPA finalized the largest total maximum daily load (TMDL) or “pollution diet” ever developed by the agency, covering the entire 64,000 square mile Chesapeake Bay watershed.
AGC remains engaged in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) effort to promulgate new standards to restrict stormwater discharges from newly developed and redeveloped construction sites (i.e., post-construction discharges) by November 2012.
The controversial numeric turbidity limit and associated monitoring requirements for construction site stormwater runoff are officially on hold until EPA reevaluates the data and issues a “correction rule.”
On Nov. 19, AGC submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its proposed rule to classify coal combustion residuals (CCR) as either hazardous or non-hazardous waste.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Friday approved revised off-road diesel emissions rules that were negotiated this year by AGC of America. The revisions will give struggling construction firms time to comply with off-road diesel emissions rules while delivering lower emissions than the original version of the rule.
Last week, members of the AGC Environmental Network Steering Committee participated in the annual, two-day Washington, DC “fly-in” event at the association’s headquarters to discuss significant environmental rulemakings and initiatives that impact commercial construction.
On December 3, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a new website called Reg Stat to provide information on proposed and final rulemakings, as well as other information and documents published in the Federal Register.
On November 18, Senator George Voinovich (R-Ohio) introduced the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) of 2010 with 29 cosponsors to reauthorize this popular program for another five years.
On November 5, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a direct final rulemaking to formally stay the numeric limit and associated monitoring requirements for turbidity in the “effluent limitation guidelines” rule (ELG) for stormwater runoff from “construction and development” (C&D) because of an error in the way the Agency calculated the limit.
AGC member Bob Lanham (William Brothers Construction, Houston, Texas) was awarded for his leadership and endorsement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Clean Diesel Campaign retrofit program. The Award of Recognition was presented in Washington, D.C., by EPA's Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation Gina McCarthy during the recent Clean Diesel 10 conference. EPA selected Lanham as the sole construction industry representative to receive such an honor.