[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 224 (Monday, November 24, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 52908-52910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20753]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 63
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0078; FRL-5774-03-OAR]
Review of National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants From Secondary Lead Smelting Technology Review; Reopening of
Comment Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: On October 1, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) proposed a rule titled ``National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants from Secondary Lead Smelting Technology
Review.'' The EPA is reopening the comment period on this proposed
rule, which closed on November 17, 2025. The comment period will now
end on December 8, 2025, to allow additional time for stakeholders to
review and comment on the proposal.
DATES: The EPA is reopening the comment period for the proposed rule
that published in the Federal Register (FR) on October 1, 2025, at 90
FR 47268. The EPA must receive written comments on or before December
8, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2025-0078, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Email: [email protected]. Include Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2025-0078 in the subject line of the message.
Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center,
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Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0078, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
Hand Delivery/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. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0078 for this rulemaking. Comments received may be
posted without change on https://www.regulations.gov, 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 information about this comment
period extension, contact U.S. EPA, Attn: Amber Wright, Mail Drop:
D243-02, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12055, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-4680; and email
address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Rationale. On October 1, 2025, the EPA proposed a rule titled
``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from
Secondary Lead Smelting Technology Review.'' \1\ The comment period on
this proposed rule originally closed on November 17, 2025. The EPA
received a request for additional time to review and comment on this
proposed rule, and the EPA has decided to reopen the comment period
until December 8, 2025. The public comment period will now end on
December 8, 2025.
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\1\ 90 FR 47268, October 1, 2025.
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Docket. The EPA established a docket for this rulemaking under
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0078. All documents in the docket are
listed at https://www.regulations.gov. Although listed, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute. The EPA does not place certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, on the internet; this material is publicly
available only as PDF versions accessible only on EPA computers in the
docket office reading room. The public cannot download certain data
bases and physical items from the docket but may request these items by
contacting the docket office at 202-566-1744. The docket office has 10
business days to respond to such requests. With the exception of such
material, publicly available docket materials are available
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov.
Written Comments. Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2025-0078. 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 https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be CBI or other information for which a statute restricts
disclosure. Do not submit electronically to https://www.regulations.gov
any information that you consider to be CBI or other information for
which a statute restricts disclosure. You should submit this type of
information as discussed below.
The EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. A
written comment must accompany multimedia submissions (audio, video,
etc.). The EPA considers the written comment to be the official
comment, and it should include discussion of all points the commenter
wishes 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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
The https://www.regulations.gov 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
https://www.regulations.gov, 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
should be free of any defects or viruses. For additional information
about the EPA's public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Submitting CBI. Do not submit information containing CBI to the EPA
through https://www.regulations.gov. 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 Written Comments section of this document. 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. The public docket and the EPA's electronic public
docket will include information not marked as CBI without prior notice.
The EPA will not disclose information marked as CBI except in
accordance with procedures set forth in 40 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) part 2.
Our preferred method to receive CBI is electronic transmittal,
using email attachments, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), or other online
file sharing services (e.g., Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive). You must
send electronic submissions directly to the Office of Clean Air
Programs (OCAP) CBI Office at the email address [email protected], and,
as described above, you should include clear CBI markings and note the
docket ID. If you need assistance 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
[email protected] to request a file transfer link. If sending CBI
information through the U.S. Postal Service, please send it to the
following address: U.S. EPA, Attn: OCAP Document Control Officer, Mail
Drop:
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C404-02, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12055, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-
0078. You should double-wrap and clearly mark the mailed CBI material.
Any CBI markings should not show through the outer envelope.
Panagiotis Tsirigotis,
Director, Office of Clean Air Programs.
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