Proposed Rule2025-06757
Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors Voluntary Remand Response and 5-Year Review; Closing of Comment Period
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Published
April 21, 2025
Effective
January 23, 2024
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is closing the reopened 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. This comment period was reopened on January 16, 2025, for an additional 6 months. The EPA is providing notice that the comment period for this rule will now close on May 30, 2025. We believe that a 6.5-month comment period in total is sufficient for interested stakeholders to submit comments and additional data.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 75 (Monday, April 21, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 16663-16664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06757]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 60
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0183; FRL-5120-06-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; Closing of Comment Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; closing comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is closing the
reopened 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. This comment
period was reopened on January 16, 2025, for an additional 6 months.
The EPA is providing notice that the comment period for this rule will
now close on May 30, 2025. We believe that a 6.5-month comment period
in total is sufficient for interested stakeholders to submit comments
and additional data.
DATES: Comments on the proposed rule, published at 89 FR 4243 on
January 23, 2024, must be received on or before May 30, 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#50317d313e347d227d343f333b3524103520317e373f26"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="40216d212e246d326d242f232b2534002530216e272f36">[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#c6a5a9b6a3e8a8a9a3aa86a3b6a7e8a1a9b0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="43202c33266d2d2c262f032633226d242c35">[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 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. However,
after further evaluation, the EPA has determined that a 6.5-month total
comment period is sufficient for interested stakeholders to provide
comments, information, and data related to this rulemaking (i.e., the
initial 60-day comment period and the additional 4.5-month extension of
the comment period). Accordingly, the 6-month extension of the comment
period will be reduced to a 4.5-month extension. This will allow the
EPA to more thoroughly evaluate the collected data on verifiable
historic pollutant emission concentration information (e.g., stack test
reports, waste characterization reports and continuous emission monitor
records) that we have received and may receive during this comment
period, to determine the maximum achievable control technology
(``MACT'') requirements, including operation of the control
technologies over time, before taking final action. The public comment
period will now end on May 30, 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. Except for these materials, 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
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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 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 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 Code of Federal Regulations (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#a7c8c6d6d7d4f8c4c5cee7c2d7c689c0c8d1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="026d637372715d61606b426772632c656d74">[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#b8d7d9c9c8cbe7dbdad1f8ddc8d996dfd7ce"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="741b150504072b17161d341104155a131b02">[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. 2025-06757 Filed 4-18-25; 8:45 am]
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