Prior Notice of Citizen Suits

What it does

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to amend its regulations prescribing the manner in which prior notice of citizen suits is to be provided as required under the citizen suit provisions of the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Noise Control Act (NCA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). This proposed rulemaking would generally require electronic service to EPA of Notices of Intent (NOIs) to file a citizen suit under the listed environmental statutes. These proposed revisions would help ensure the Agency receives and processes such NOIs in a timely and efficient manner.

The Environmental Protection Agency's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

6 parts of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

40 CFR 54, 40 CFR 135, 40 CFR 210, 40 CFR 254, 40 CFR 374, 40 CFR 702

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 2015-AA04 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Comments must be received on or before March 26, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket EPA-HQ-OGC-2024-0557 on Regulations.gov
• Title 40 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register