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Vol. 90
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November 3, 2025
Part V
The President
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Proclamation 10987--Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To
Promote American Mineral Security
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10987 of October 24, 2025
Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources
To Promote American Mineral Security
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Copper is essential to America's energy, defense,
and manufacturing sectors. From the electric grid to
semiconductors, copper plays a critical role in
supporting our modern economy. Maintaining and
increasing domestic copper smelting capacity is vital
to reducing reliance on foreign supply chains and
ensuring American mineral security. Executive Order
14220 of February 25, 2025 (Addressing the Threat to
National Security From Imports of Copper), recognized
copper as a ``critical material essential to the
national security, economic strength, and industrial
resilience of the United States,'' and directed action
to address the national security threat posed by
excessive reliance on foreign sources by strengthening
domestic capacity across the copper supply chain.
2. On May 13, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency
published a final rule, pursuant to section 112 of the
Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412, titled National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Primary Copper
Smelting Residual Risk and Technology Review and
Primary Copper Smelting Area Source Technology Review,
89 FR 41648 (Copper Rule). The Copper Rule imposes new
emissions-control requirements on primary copper
smelters.
3. The Copper Rule imposes severe burdens on the few
remaining domestic copper smelters by requiring
compliance with new national emissions standards. These
standards are premised on the use of emissions-control
technologies that do not exist in a commercially
demonstrated or cost-effective form. The Copper Rule
sets a uniform compliance timeline at 89 FR 41657 that
does not account for the unique operational and
technical constraints of this legacy industrial sector.
In 2024, only two primary copper smelters remained in
operation across the country. Imposing these
requirements on such a limited and already strained
domestic industry risks accelerating further closures,
weakening the Nation's industrial base, undermining
mineral independence, and increasing reliance on
foreign-controlled processing capacity. Preserving all
domestic smelting capability is essential to ensuring
access to critical minerals in times of crisis.
4. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States,
including section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act, 42
U.S.C. 7412(i)(4), do hereby proclaim that certain
stationary sources subject to the Copper Rule, as
identified in Annex I of this proclamation, are exempt
from compliance with the Copper Rule for a period of 2
years beyond the Copper Rule's relevant compliance
dates (Exemption). This Exemption applies to all
compliance deadlines established under the Copper Rule
applicable to the stationary sources listed in Annex I,
with each such deadline extended by 2 years from the
date originally required for such deadline. The effect
of this Exemption is that, during each such 2-year
period, these stationary sources will be subject to the
emissions and compliance obligations that they are
currently subject to under the applicable
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standard as that standard existed prior to the Copper
Rule. In support of this Exemption, I hereby make the
following determinations:
a. The technology to implement the Copper Rule is
not available. Such technology does not exist in a
commercially viable form sufficient to allow
implementation of and compliance with the Copper Rule
by the compliance dates in the Copper Rule.
b. It is in the national security interests of the
United States to issue this Exemption for the reasons
stated in paragraphs 1 and 3 of this proclamation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and
fiftieth.
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