2025 Meetings

2025

Meetings of the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) are held on the second Tuesday of every month (unless otherwise noted). Meetings will only be held when there is a sufficient number of agenda items for consideration. All meetings will convene at 9:00 a.m. and will be held in-person in Room 105, Rachel Carson State Office Building 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA, as well as having a remote participation option.

The meeting dates are as follows:

April 8, 2025

• Agenda (PDF)
• Minutes of November 12, 2024 Meeting (PDF)
• Final Rulemaking: Water Quality Standards – Site-Specific Water Quality Criteria (25 Pa. Code Chapter 93)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Comment Response Document (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
    • Site-Specific Methylmercury Rationale (PDF)
• Proposed Rulemaking: Legal Authority for Delegation of Federal Plans in 40 CFR Part 62 (25 Pa. Code Chapter 122)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
• Proposed Rulemaking: Administration of the Land Recycling Program – Chromium (VI) (25 Pa. Code Chapter 250)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
• Rulemaking Petition: Unconventional Well Setbacks (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Petition (PDF)
  • Attachment C, Studies 1 - 11 (PDF)
  • Attachment C, Studies 12 - 21 (PDF)
  • Attachment C, Studies 22 - 35 (PDF)
  • Attachment C, Studies 36 - 42 (PDF)
     

September 9, 2025

• Agenda (PDF)
• Minutes of April 8, 2025 Meeting (PDF)
  
  
• Final Rulemaking: Corrections to Additional RACT Requirements for Major Sources of NOx and VOCs for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS (RACT 3) (25 Pa. Code Chapter 129)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
     
• Final-Omitted Rulemaking: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Consistency Rule – Incorporation by Reference (25 Pa. Code Chapters 215, 217, 219, 220 and 230)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
     
• Proposed Rulemaking: Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Fees (25 Pa. Code Chapter 252)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
  • Fee Report (PDF)
     
• Proposed Rulemaking: Safe Drinking Water Revised Consumer Confidence Report Rule (25 Pa. Code Chapter 109)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
  • PWS-TAC Board Letter (PDF)
     
• Final Rulemaking: Triennial Review of Water Quality Standards (25 Pa. Code Chapter 93)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Preamble (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Comment Response Document (PDF) 
    • Commentator List (PDF)
  • Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
    • Human Health Criteria Rationale (PDF)
    • 1,4 Dioxane Rationale (PDF)
    • Cadmium Rationale (PDF)
    • Carbaryl Rationale (PDF)
    • Tributyltin Rationale (PDF)
       
• Statement of Policy: Water Quality Toxics Management Strategy (25 Pa. Code Chapter 16)
  • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
  • Notice (PDF)
  • Annex A (PDF)
  • Fiscal Sheet (PDF)

• Rulemaking Petition: Determination of Attainable Bottom (25 Pa. Code Chapters 78 and 78a)
  • Petition (PDF)
    
    
• Rulemaking Petition: Onsite Processing of Fluids from Oil and Gas Operations (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a)
  • Petition (PDF)
    

October 14, 2025

November 12, 2025 (Wednesday)

December 9, 2025

Contact: Laura Griffin, Regulatory Coordinator, Environmental Quality Board, P.O. Box 8477, Harrisburg, PA, 17105-8477, laurgriffi@pa.gov, (717) 772-3277