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Recent Additions to the Office of Transportation and Air Quality Website
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Added September 2012
- September 17, 2012: EPA issued a direct final rule to amend the definition of heating oil under the RFS program.
- September 14, 2012: EPA announces 2013 Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for Renewable Fuel Standard program.
Added August 2012
- August 31, 2012: EPA established Nonconformance Penalties for On-Highway Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines.
- August 31, 2012: EPA announced an opportunity for public hearing and comment on California's request for authorization of its Advanced Clean Car Program.
- August 30, 2012: SmartWay launches TIPS: Trends, Indicators, and Partner Statistics, a source of leading freight movement industry indicators and quick facts on current SmartWay Partner performance metrics.
- August 28, 2012: EPA and NHTSA finalize standards to reduce greenhouse gases and improve fuel economy for cars and light trucks.
- August 20, 2012: EPA issued a request for comment on letters seeking a waiver of the volume requirements of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
- August 09, 2012: EPA is currently conducting adequacy reviews of the annual and 24-hour PM2.5 maintenance plans for Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, Ohio.
- August 06, 2012: EPA is currently conducting adequacy reviews of the 1997 8-hour ozone attainment plan for the Maryland portion of Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City.
Added July 2012
- July 26, 2012: EPA is currently conducting an adequacy review of 1997 8-hour ozone attainment plan for Macon and Rome, Georgia.
- July 25, 2012: EPA has posted two new guidance documents for transportation conformity: guidance for conformity in 2008 ozone NAAQS areas, and an update to guidance for conformity in multi-jurisdictional areas that applies for all NAAQS, including the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
- July 25, 2012: EPA is currently conducting adequacy reviews of 8-hour ozone attainment plan for the Delaware portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City Area.
- July 17, 2012: EPA is currently conducting adequacy reviews of PM2.5 redesignation and maintenance plan for Cincinnati - Hamilton Area, KY Portion.
Added June 2012
- June 25, 2012: EPA has updated the 2011 I/M OBD Readiness Testability Issues List to correct its OBD testing guidance for model year 1996-98 Mitsubishi vehicles.
- June 15, 2012: EPA approved the first plans for satisfying the misfueling mitigation conditions of the E15 partial waivers.
- June 6, 2012: Newest version of the SmartWay Logistics Company Tool is available for download. Submissions of the 2011 data-year Logistics Tools are DUE August 3, 2012.
- June 6, 2012: Yellow Marker 2012 Transition Guidance published.
- June 1, 2012: EPA Adopts NOx Emission Standards for Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines.
Added May 2012
- May 24, 2012: Revised materials for the 3-day PM hot-spot training course are now available.
- May 23, 2012: EPA announces Emergency Vehicle Rule.
Added April 2012
- April 20, 2012: EPA announces the availability of $20 million in grants for clean diesel projects.
- April 20, 2012: Economic Impacts of the Category 3 Marine Rule on Great Lakes Shipping.
- April 2, 2012: EPA approved the first applications for registering ethanol for use in making E15. See E15 Registration and Registration and Health Effects Testing.
Added March 2012
- March 14, 2012: EPA, in collaboration with Scholastic, has published a Spanish version of "The Magic School Bus Gets Cleaned Up."
- March 8, 2012: EPA is currently conducting adequacy reviews of PM2.5 redesignation and maintenance plan for Parkersburg/Marietta area, Ohio.
- March 8, 2012: The 1975-2011 Light-Duty Automotive Technology, Carbon Dioxide & Fuel Economy Trends Report has been finalized
- March 5, 2012: EPA is currently conducting adequacy reviews of 8-hour ozone redesignation and maintenance plan for Boston-Manchester-Portsmouth (SE), New Hampshire.