EPA has withdrawn from White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review five more air and water policies developed by the Trump administration following Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain's announcement of a regulatory freeze in order to reconsider pending Trump EPA actions. The items pulled from OMB review Jan. 25 are renewable fuel standards for 2021 and biomass-based diesel volumes for 2022; a notice about considering adding 1-bromopropane (1-BP) to the list of Hazardous Air Pollutants; revisions to subpart J monitoring requirements of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP); guidance on vessel sewage no-discharge zone applications; and guidance to encourage water quality trading. The withdrawals come days after the Biden EPA on Jan. 21 pulled from OMB review a long-pending Trump administration proposal to exempt some biogenic greenhouse gas emissions from Clean Air Act permitting mandates. At that same time, it also pulled a separate proposed guidance on modeling ozone and fine particulate matter emissions. All seven withdrawals follow the Jan. 20 issuance of a memo by Klain to EPA and all other agencies announcing a "freeze" of all pending regulations, so that the new administration can review a host of Trump administration policies for potential revision or reversal.
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