Environmental News Highlights – January 4, 2023

CULTURAL RESOURCES

President Biden Announces Appointments to Route 66 Centennial Commission ( – White House )

Hawaiian diacritical markings to be added to signs along the Leeward coast ( – Hawai’i Department of Transportation (media release))

TRB RESOURCES/ANNOUNCEMENTS

Success Strategies for Metropolitan Planning Organizations ( – TRB (webinar))

Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades ( – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine )

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making ( – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICES

Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2023-2025 and Other Changes ( – EPA (Proposed rule) )

Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Vehicle Miles Traveled Emissions Offset Demonstrations for the 2015 Ozone Standards; California ( – EPA (Proposed rule) )

Air Plan Approval; Texas; Reasonable Further Progress Plan for the Dallas-Fort Worth Ozone Nonattainment Area ( – EPA (Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking) )

Notification of Request for Nominations to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council ( – EPA (Notice) )

Notice of Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee Vacancies ( – Surface Transportation Board (Notice; solicitation of nominations))

Notice of Public Meetings of the Idaho Resource Advisory Council and the Lava Ridge Wind Project Subcommittee ( – Bureau of Land Management (Notice) )

Application for Recertification of Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council ( – Coast Guard (Notice of availability; request for comments) )

Call for Nominations for the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group Federal Advisory Committee ( – Bureau of Reclamation (Notice) )

Hazardous Materials: Enhanced Safety Provisions for Lithium Batteries Transported by Aircraft (FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018) (Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (Final rule))

Notice of Inventory Completion: Alabama Department of Transportation, Montgomery, AL (– National Park Service (Notice))

Approval of LaGuardia Airport (LGA) Noise Compatibility Program ( – FAA (Notice) )

Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Park City Wind, LLC’s Proposed Wind Energy Facility Offshore Massachusetts (– Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Notice; request for comments))