[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 53 (Thursday, March 20, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 13084-13085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04800]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 9 and 257
[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2020-0107; FRL-7814.1-05-OLEM]
RIN 2050-AH34
Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal
Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface
Impoundments; Correction; Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Withdrawal of direct final rule.
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SUMMARY: Due to the receipt of adverse comment, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is withdrawing the direct final rule titled,
``Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal
Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface
Impoundments; Correction,'' published on January 16, 2025.
DATES: As of March 20, 2025, the EPA withdraws the direct final rule
published at 90 FR 4635, on January 16, 2025.
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: holt.taylor@epa.gov, 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: behan.frank@epa.gov. For more information on this
rulemaking, please visit https://www.epa.gov/coalash.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to the receipt of adverse comment, the
EPA is withdrawing the direct final rule titled, ``Hazardous and Solid
Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From
Electric Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface Impoundments; Correction,''
published on January 16, 2025 (90 FR 4635). We stated in that direct
final rule that if we received adverse comment by March 17, 2025, the
direct final rule would not take effect and we would publish a timely
withdrawal in the Federal Register. Because the EPA subsequently
received adverse comment on that direct
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final rule, we are withdrawing the direct final rule.
The EPA published a parallel proposed rule (90 FR 4707, January 16,
2025) on the same day as the direct final rule. The proposed rule
invited comment on the substance of the direct final rule.
Notwithstanding this action to withdraw the direct final rule, the EPA
will continue to accept comment on the parallel proposed rule through
March 17, 2025, which is the deadline to submit comments. The EPA will
respond to comments as part of any final action it takes on the
parallel proposed rule.
List of Subjects
40 CFR Part 9
Environmental protection, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
40 CFR Part 257
Environmental protection, Beneficial use, Coal combustion products,
Coal combustion residuals, Coal combustion waste, Disposal, Hazardous
waste, Landfill, Surface impoundment.
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Accordingly, as of March 20, 2025, the EPA withdraws the direct final
rule amending 40 CFR parts 9 and 257, which published at 90 FR 4635, on
January 16, 2025.
Barry N. Breen,
Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Land and Emergency
Management.
[FR Doc. 2025-04800 Filed 3-19-25; 8:45 am]
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