Proposed Rule2025-16974
Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; CCR Management Unit Deadline Extension Rule; Reopening of Comment Period and Public Hearing
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Published
September 4, 2025
Effective
July 22, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is reopening the comment period for the proposed rule entitled "Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; CCR Management Unit Deadline Extension Rule." EPA is reopening the comment period until September 15, 2025, in response to stakeholders' requests for a public hearing and comment period extension.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 169 (Thursday, September 4, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 42711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16974]
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 169 / Thursday, September 4, 2025 /
Proposed Rules
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 257
[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2020-0107; FRL-7814.2-04-OLEM]
RIN 2050-AH36
Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal
Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; CCR Management Unit
Deadline Extension Rule; Reopening of Comment Period and Public Hearing
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period and public hearing.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is
reopening the comment period for the proposed rule entitled ``Hazardous
and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion
Residuals From Electric Utilities; CCR Management Unit Deadline
Extension Rule.'' EPA is reopening the comment period until September
15, 2025, in response to stakeholders' requests for a public hearing
and comment period extension.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on July 22,
2025 (90 FR 34409) closed August 21, 2025, and is reopened until
September 15, 2025. Comments must be received on or before September
15, 2025. Public hearing: An online public hearing will be held on
September 12, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OLEM-2020-0107, online at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow the
detailed online instructions provided under ADDRESSES in the Federal
Register document published on July 22, 2025 (90 FR 34409). Do not
submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Additional instruction on commenting and
visiting the docket, along with more information about dockets
generally, is available at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Taylor Holt, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery, Materials Recovery and Waste Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
MC: 5304T, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 566-1439;
email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#11797e7d653f6570687d7e63517461703f767e67"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="345c5b58401a40554d585b46745144551a535b42">[email protected]</span></a>, or Frank Behan, Office of Resource
Conservation and Recovery, Materials Recovery and Waste Management
Division, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
MC: 5304T, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 566-0531;
email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#99fbfcf1f8f7b7ffebf8f7f2d9fce9f8b7fef6ef"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4527202d242b6b2337242b2e052035246b222a33">[email protected]</span></a>. For more information on this
rulemaking please visit <a href="https://www.epa.gov/coalash">https://www.epa.gov/coalash</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 22, 2025, EPA published a direct
final rule (90 FR 34358) and a proposed rule (90 FR 34409) entitled
``Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal
Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; CCR Management Unit
Deadline Extension Rule.'' The original deadline to submit comments was
August 21, 2025. On July 29, 2025 and August 1, 2025, EPA received
requests for the Agency to extend the comment period and to conduct a
public hearing, respectively.
In response to the request for a public hearing, on August 12,
2025, EPA announced on its CCR website that it will conduct an online
public hearing on September 12, 2025. The hearing will convene at 9:00
a.m. Eastern Time (ET) and conclude at 1:00 p.m. (ET). Information on
how EPA will conduct this public hearing, instructions on how to
register to provide oral testimony or participate at the public
hearing, and instructions on how to request the services of an
interpreter or special accommodations such as audio transcription or
closed captioning can be found on EPA's CCR website (<a href="https://www.epa.gov/coalash">https://www.epa.gov/coalash</a>). Participation in the online public hearing does
not preclude any entity or individual from submitting a written comment
during the comment period. A verbatim transcript of the hearing and
written statements submitted by the public at the public hearing will
be included in the docket for the rulemaking. The public should monitor
EPA's CCR website for updates regarding details of the public hearing.
In response to the request for a comment period extension, this
action reopens the comment period of the proposed rule until September
15, 2025. Written comments must now be received by September 15, 2025.
Due to the receipt of adverse comment, the EPA has published in the
Federal Register a withdrawal of the related direct final rule (90 FR
34358).
To submit comments or access the docket, please follow the detailed
instructions provided under ADDRESSES in the Federal Register document
published on July 22, 2025 (90 FR 34409). Comments previously submitted
need not be resubmitted as they are already incorporated into the
public record and will be considered in the final action as
appropriate. If you have questions, consult the people listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Lee Zeldin,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2025-16974 Filed 9-3-25; 8:45 am]
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