Backing Requests, EPA Extends Comment Deadline For Oil & Gas Air Rules

摘要

EPA is extending by 30 days the comment deadline for its package of Clean Air Act policies affecting the oil and gas sector, including its first-time proposal to regulate methane, in response to requests from states, tribes and industry that additional time was needed to review the four proposed policies and provide feedback. Several industry groups had also pressed the administration to extend the comment deadline so that they could review EPA's already issued rules in tandem with an upcoming proposal from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) governing venting and flaring at oil and gas drilling operations on federal lands. But the 30-day extension that EPA is granting falls short of the 90-day extension that some industry groups had sought, though an American Petroleum Institute (API) official had also called for a 60-day extension to ensure a minimum 30-day overlap between the EPA and BLM rules.