WASHINGTON, April 24 -- Environmental Protection Agency has issued a notice called: Response to Petition To Change Regulation of Phosphogypsum Under RCRA.

The notice was published in the Federal Register on April 24 by Lee Zeldin, Administrator.

Summary: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responding to a rulemaking petition from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and People for Protecting Peace River, on behalf of a consortium of non-profit groups. The EPA has been petitioned to promulgate rules that reverse the EPA 1991 Bevill regulatory determination excluding phosphogypsum and phosphoric acid production process wastewater from Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle C hazardous waste regulations; and gov...