^®: CRE Regulatory Action of the Week

EPA Extends Comment Period on NPDES General Permit for Chukchi and Beaufort Oil and Gas
On August 15, 2014, EPA provided public notice on the re-proposal of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit for Oil and Gas Geotechnical Surveys and Related Activities in Federal Waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas (Permit No. AKG-28-4300), and established a comment deadline of September 15, 2014. In response to a request from the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission to reopen the comment period deadline, EPA is reopening the comment period to September 30, 2014.