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This notice announces the imposition of a 6-month nationwide moratorium on the Medicare enrollment of DMEPOS supplier medical supply companies.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Department is proposing to rescind the analysis for determining employee or independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) currently set forth in 29 CFR part 795 and replace it with the analysis that it published and adopted in a prior final rule dated January 7, 2021, with a few modifications. In addition, the Department proposes to apply this analysis to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA), both of which incorporate the FLSA's scope of employment.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

This action proposes to modify the Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Nenana Municipal Airport, Nenana, AK, to accommodate revisions to the airport's instrument approach procedures (IAP). This action would support the safety and management of instrument flight rules (IFR) operations at the airport.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is updating the list of chemicals subject to toxic chemical release reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA). Specifically, this action updates the regulations to identify one perfluoroalkyl substance that must be reported pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY 2020 NDAA) enacted on December 20, 2019. As this action is being taken to conform the regulations to a Congressional legislative mandate, notice and comment rulemaking is unnecessary.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is finalizing several pesticide tolerance actions under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) that the Agency previously determined were necessary or appropriate during the registration review conducted under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). During registration review, EPA reviews all aspects of a pesticide case, including existing tolerances, to ensure that the pesticide continues to meet the standard for registration under FIFRA. The Agency is also finalizing tolerance actions identified outside of registration review as housekeeping measures, such as removing expired tolerances from the Code of Federal Register (CFR). The pesticide tolerances and active ingredients addressed in this rulemaking are identified and discussed in detail in Unit III. of this document.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions and additions to Michigan Air Pollution Control Rules (MAPCR) Parts 6 and 8 for inclusion in the Michigan State Implementation Plan (SIP). Michigan submitted these SIP revisions to meet the Moderate Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Nitrogen Oxide (NO<INF>X</INF>) Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) requirements for the Western Michigan nonattainment areas (Berrien, Western portion of Allegan, and Western portion of Muskegon counties) under the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or standard). The EPA is also proposing to approve MAPCR Rules that limit VOC emissions from consumer products and architectural and industrial maintenance coatings, as SIP strengthening measures for the Western Michigan nonattainment areas under the 2015 ozone standard. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (Michigan or EGLE) submitted the VOC SIP revisions on March 7, 2024, supplementing the submittal on May 2, 2024, and submitted the NO<INF>X</INF> SIP revisions on May 5, 2025, supplementing the submittal on August 6, 2025.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve the regional haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) on June 3, 2024, as satisfying applicable requirements under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the EPA's Regional Haze Rule for the program's second implementation period. The EPA proposes to find that Illinois' regional haze SIP submission fulfills the requirement that States must periodically revise their long-term strategies for making reasonable progress towards the national goal of preventing any future, and remedying any existing, anthropogenic impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I Federal areas. The EPA is also proposing to approve portions of Illinois' September 29, 2017, and May 16, 2019, infrastructure SIP submissions for the 2012 fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) and 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), respectively. The EPA is proposing that Illinois' infrastructure submissions fulfill CAA requirements for a State's SIP to contain adequate provisions prohibiting emissions that will interfere with required visibility protection measures in any other State's SIP.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine under the Clean Air Act (CAA) that the Cleveland, Ohio nonattainment area (hereafter also referred to as "Cleveland area" or "area") has attained the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or standard). This determination is based upon complete, quality-assured, and certified ambient air monitoring data for the 2023-2025 design period showing that the Cleveland area achieved attainment of the 2015 ozone NAAQS. This determination relies on an exceptional events request submitted by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) on December 8, 2025, which the EPA concurred with on January 12, 2026. The EPA is proposing to take final agency action on Ohio's exceptional events request and the EPA's concurrence. As a result of this determination, the EPA is proposing to suspend the requirements for the state to submit an attainment demonstration and associated Reasonable Available Control Measures (RACM), Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) plans, contingency measures for failure to attain or make reasonable progress, and other planning State Implementation Plans (SIPs) related to attainment of the 2015 NAAQS, for as long as the Cleveland area continues to attain the 2015 ozone NAAQS.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the volatile organic compound (VOC) requirements for Keystone Automotive Industries dba Saturn Wheel (Keystone) of Huntington County, Indiana. Keystone owns and operates an aluminum alloy wheel refurbishing and distribution facility at which it performs cold cleaner degreasing operations and is subject to the VOC rules under article 8 of the Indiana Administrative Code (IAC). On February 26, 2025, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) submitted a Commissioner's Order containing the revised requirements and requested that the EPA approve it as an amendment to the Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP). IDEM is seeking the EPA approval of an equivalent control device and site specific Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) for Keystone's degreasing operations, as provided in IAC article 8.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve source-specific State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by Ohio. These revisions address major source volatile organic compound (VOC) and nitrogen oxide (NO<INF>X</INF>) reasonably available control technology (RACT) requirements for the Cleveland, OH Moderate nonattainment area under the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or standard). The affected facilities include PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (PPG), Owens Corning, Akron Paint and Varnish, Charter Steel, U.S. Steel Tubular Lorain, Carmeuse Lime, and Ross Incineration. The EPA is also proposing to approve source-specific SIP revisions for General Electric Aviation Evendale and Tyson Foods for the Cincinnati maintenance area under the 2015 ozone standard. Finally, the EPA is proposing to rescind the source-specific VOC RACT rule for Formica Corporation since it is subject to an equivalent CTG-based rule in the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC).

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating this final rule to extend the reporting deadline under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule for reporting year 2025 from March 31, 2026 to October 30, 2026. This final rule changes only the reporting deadline for annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reports for reporting year 2025 in response to comments received on the proposed rescission of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). The EPA anticipates addressing the remainder of the proposed rule in one or more subsequent final actions.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its regulations to incorporate by reference the 2023 Edition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. This action is in accordance with the NRC's policy to periodically update the regulations to incorporate by reference new editions of the ASME Codes and is intended to maintain the safety of nuclear power plants and to make NRC activities more effective and efficient. The NRC also is proposing to amend its regulations to incorporate by reference proposed revisions of three regulatory guides, which would approve new, revised, and reaffirmed code cases published by the ASME. This proposed action would allow nuclear power plant licensees and applicants to use the code cases listed in these draft regulatory guides as voluntary alternatives to engineering standards for the construction, inservice inspection, and inservice testing of nuclear power plant components. This proposed rule also incorporates minor editorial corrections. The NRC is requesting comments on this proposed rule, on the draft versions of three regulatory guides, and the draft version of an additional regulatory guide which will not be incorporated by reference.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

Consistent with the U.S. Department of the Interior (Department or DOI) regulations and handbook implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces its intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) (Unique Identification Number DOI-BOEM-PC-2026- 0001-EIS) for proposed oil and gas lease sales in the Northern, Central, and Southern California Program Areas (California Oil and Gas PEIS). This notice of intent (NOI) serves to announce the scoping process BOEM will use to identify significant issues and potential alternatives for consideration in the California Oil and Gas PEIS. On November 20, 2025, DOI published the first of three proposals during the development of the 11th National Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program (11th National Program). The Secretary's Draft Proposed Program for the 11th National Program includes one proposed lease sale in the Northern California Program Area, two proposed lease sales in the Central California Program Area, and three proposed lease sales in the Southern California Program Area. Because the first California lease sale is tentatively scheduled to occur near the beginning of the 11th National Program and given the long lead time needed to prepare for a proposed sale, BOEM must initiate the lease sale planning process and prepare the PEIS simultaneously with the development of the 11th National Program.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, or Commission) has issued an exemption in response to a request from Constellation Energy Generation, LLC, to allow the completion of decommissioning beyond 60 years of permanent cessation of operations for the Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

NMFS has received a request from the Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP) for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project (HRBT) in Norfolk, Virginia. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments on its proposal to issue an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to incidentally take marine mammals during the specified activities. NMFS is also requesting comments on a possible one-time, 1-year renewal that could be issued under certain circumstances and if all requirements are met, as described in Request for Public Comments at the end of this notice. NMFS will consider public comments prior to making any final decision on the issuance of the requested MMPA authorization and agency responses will be summarized in the final notice of our decision.

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This regulation revises a use of pyridate on mint (with tolerances on mint, fresh leaves and mint, dried leaves); a crop group expansion to field corn subgroup 15-22C; and a crop group conversion to vegetable, brassica, head and stem, group 5-16, which includes a tolerance on orphan crop kohlrabi. The Interregional Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona State Director intends to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment with an associated environmental assessment (EA) concerning recreational target shooting for the Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM). By this notice the BLM is announcing the beginning of the scoping period to solicit public comments and identify issues and is providing the planning criteria for public review.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA may approve State or local rules or programs to be implemented and enforced in place of certain otherwise applicable Federal rules, emissions standards, or requirements. On October 6, 2025, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR), on behalf of the State of Missouri, requested delegation of a partial CAA Risk Management Program (RMP) for agricultural anhydrous ammonia facilities. The request was supplemented by MoDNR on October 9, 2025, and on October 27, 2025. The EPA has determined that MoDNR's request meets CAA requirements for delegation of a partial program, and the EPA is proposing to approve the request.

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This action establishes the Helena (HLN), MT, Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range/Tactical Air Navigation (VORTAC) as a Domestic Low Altitude Reporting Point in the state of Montana.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine under the Clean Air Act (CAA) that the Illinois portion of the St. Louis, MO-IL nonattainment area (hereafter also referred to, respectively, as the "St. Louis area" or "area") has attained the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or standard). This determination is based upon complete, quality-assured, and certified ambient air monitoring data for the 2023-2025 design value period showing that the Illinois portion of the area achieved attainment of the 2015 ozone NAAQS. This determination also relies on the EPA concurrence of an exceptional events request submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) on December 18, 2025, and concurred on by the EPA on January 12, 2026. Therefore, the EPA is proposing to take final agency action on Illinois' exceptional events request. In a separate action, the EPA is proposing a similar determination for the Missouri portion of the St. Louis area. If finalized, this determination would suspend the requirements for the area to submit attainment demonstrations and associated Reasonably Available Control Measures (RACM), Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) plans, contingency measures for failure to attain or make reasonable progress, and other planning State Implementation Plans (SIPs) related to attainment of the 2015 ozone NAAQS, for as long as the area continues to attain the 2015 ozone NAAQS.

Agency policy affects how CEQA analyses are scoped, reviewed, or challenged.