Proposed Rule2025-00648
Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors Voluntary Remand Response and 5-Year Review; Reopening of Comment Period
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Published
January 16, 2025
Effective
January 23, 2024
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the comment period on the proposed Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors Voluntary Remand Response and 5-Year Review. The original proposed rule was published on January 23, 2024, with a 60-day comment period closing March 25, 2024. With this notification, EPA is reopening the public comment period for an additional 6 months, from January 16, 2025, to July 16, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 4708-4710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00648]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 60
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0183; FRL-5120-05-OAR]
RIN 2060-AO18
Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission
Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors
Voluntary Remand Response and 5-Year Review; Reopening of Comment
Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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ACTION: Proposed rule; request for comment; reopening of comment
period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the
comment period on the proposed Standards of Performance for New
Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large
Municipal Waste Combustors Voluntary Remand Response and 5-Year Review.
The original proposed rule was published on January 23, 2024, with a
60-day comment period closing March 25, 2024. With this notification,
EPA is reopening the public comment period for an additional 6 months,
from January 16, 2025, to July 16, 2025.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published at 89 FR 4243
on January 23, 2024, is reopened. Comments must be received on or
before July 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2017-0183, by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#78195519161c550a551c171b131d0c381d0819561f170e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="afce82cec1cb82dd82cbc0ccc4cadbefcadfce81c8c0d9">[email protected]</span></a>. Include Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2017-0183 in the subject line of the message.
<bullet> Fax: (202) 566-9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2017-0183.
<bullet> Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0183, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
<bullet> Hand/Courier Delivery: EPA Docket Center, WJC West
Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004.
The Docket Center's hours of operation are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-
Friday (except Federal holidays).
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID
No. for this rulemaking. Comments received may be posted without change
to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>, including any personal information
provided. For detailed instructions on sending comments and additional
information on the rulemaking process, see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this proposed
action, contact U.S. EPA, Attn: Noel Cope, Mail Drop: E143-02, 109 T.W.
Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12055, RTP, North Carolina 27711; telephone
number: (919) 541-2128; and email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d8bbb7a8bdf6b6b7bdb498bda8b9f6bfb7ae"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="82e1edf2e7acecede7eec2e7f2e3ace5edf4">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Rationale. On January 23, 2024, the EPA proposed amendments to 40
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 60, subparts Cb and Eb, the
Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission
Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors (89
FR 4243). The comment period for this proposed rule closed on March 25,
2024. The EPA has decided to reopen the comment period for an
additional 6 months for the EPA to gather additional information on the
proposed amendments to the Large Municipal Waste Combustor regulations.
Specifically, the EPA seeks additional information and documentation on
verifiable historic pollutant emission concentration information (e.g.,
stack test reports, waste characterization reports and continuous
emission monitor records) for the industry so that we can further
assess the proposed maximum achievable control technology (``MACT'')
requirements, including operation of the control technologies over
time. The public comment period will now end on July 16, 2025.
Docket. The EPA has established a docket for this rulemaking under
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0183. All documents in the docket are
listed in <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>. Although listed, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is
not placed on the internet and will be publicly available only in hard
copy. With the exception of such material, publicly available docket
materials are available electronically in <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>.
Instructions. Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2017-0183. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute. Do not submit electronically to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>
any information that you consider to be CBI or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. This type of information should be
submitted as discussed below.
The EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a
written comment. The written comment is considered the official comment
and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. The EPA
will generally not consider comments or comment contents located
outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the Web, cloud, or other
file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full EPA
public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions,
and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
The <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a> website allows you to submit your
comment anonymously, which means the EPA will not know your identity or
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through
<a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>, your email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the internet. If you submit an
electronic comment, the EPA recommends that you include your name and
other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
digital storage media you submit. If the EPA cannot read your comment
due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification,
the EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files
should not include special characters or any form of encryption and be
free of any defects or viruses. For additional information about the
EPA's public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Submitting CBI. Do not submit information containing CBI to the EPA
through <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>. Clearly mark the part or all of
the information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information on any
digital storage media that you mail to the EPA, note the docket ID,
mark the outside of the digital storage media as CBI, and identify
electronically within the digital storage media the specific
information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version
of the comments that includes information claimed as CBI, you must
submit a copy of the comments that does not contain the information
claimed as CBI directly to the public docket through the procedures
outlined in Instructions above. If you submit any digital storage media
that does not contain CBI, mark the outside of the digital storage
media clearly that it does not contain CBI and
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note the docket ID. Information not marked as CBI will be included in
the public docket and the EPA's electronic public docket without prior
notice. Information marked as CBI will not be disclosed except in
accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
Our preferred method to receive CBI is for it to be transmitted
electronically using email attachments, File Transfer Protocol (FTP),
or other online file sharing services (e.g., Dropbox, OneDrive, Google
Drive). Electronic submissions must be transmitted directly to the
OAQPS CBI Office at the email address <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#533c322223200c30313a133623327d343c25"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e8878999989bb78b8a81a88d9889c68f879e">[email protected]</span></a>, and as
described above, should include clear CBI markings, and note the docket
ID. If assistance is needed with submitting large electronic files that
exceed the file size limit for email attachments, and if you do not
have your own file sharing service, please email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#81eee0f0f1f2dee2e3e8c1e4f1e0afe6eef7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1cec0d0d1d2fec2c3c8e1c4d1c08fc6ced7">[email protected]</span></a> to
request a file transfer link. If sending CBI information through the
postal service, please send it to the following address: OAQPS Document
Control Officer (C404-02), OAQPS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
P.O. Box 12055, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, Attention
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0183. The mailed CBI material should be
double wrapped and clearly marked. Any CBI markings should not show
through the outer envelope.
Penny Lassiter,
Director, Sector Policies and Programs Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-00648 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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