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Senate committee approves multiple DEQ rule dockets, including contested-case alignment and petroleum corrective-action updates
Summary
The committee approved a DEQ docket that aligns contested-case procedures with the Office of Administrative Hearings, a radioactive waste disposal rule update, and revised petroleum release corrective-action rules that move water-quality sections into a consolidated chapter and adopt EPA risk calculators.
The Senate committee approved four Department of Environmental Quality dockets that update administrative procedure references, streamline radiological-waste regulations and consolidate petroleum release corrective-action requirements.
Kristen Ryan, deputy director for the Department of Environmental Quality, presented docket 5801232401, a package of temporary and pending contested-case rules. She said the DEQ rules were amended to align language with rules adopted by the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) and to retain DEQ-specific procedural items: where petitioners obtain appeal information, a 35-day deadline to appeal agency actions, a 21-day intervention deadline for permit holders, trade-secret safeguards and notice and stay procedures. Ryan said the temporary rules were adopted by the…
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