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RIN: 2060-AO93

Publication ID: Fall 2008

Title: NESHAP: Area Source Standards--Aluminum, Copper, and Other Nonferrous Foundries
Abstract: Section 112(k)(3) of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to prepare a comprehensive strategy to control emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from area sources in urban areas. The strategy must identify at least 30 HAPs that, as the result of emissions from area sources, present the greatest threat to public health in urban areas. The strategy must also identify the source categories that emit the listed urban HAPs. EPA must subject to regulation those listed source categories such that 90 percent of the aggregate emissions of the urban HAPs are subjected to standards. The strategy was published on July 19, 1999, and listed various area source categories emitting at least one of the urban HAPs. EPA eventually listed a total of 70 source categories that collectively account for at least 90 percent of the urban HAPs in urban areas. As such, EPA is required to subject these source categories to regulations issued under section 112(d). Furthermore, EPA has received a court order requiring that the Agency complete the 112(k) mandate by certain dates. Specifically, the court order requires that EPA issue regulations affecting these three area source categories by June 15, 2009. EPA withdrew SAN 5230 (aluminum foundries) and merged the rulemaking regarding the aluminum foundries source category with the rulemaking regarding the copper and other nonferrous foundries source categories, under SAN 5189. These three foundries source categories utilize closely similar processes; therefore, it is appropriate to address them in one rulemaking.
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)	Priority: Other Significant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Authority: CAA sec 112

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
Final	Judicial	Court ordered deadline (area source standards)	06/15/2009

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	01/00/2009
Final Action	07/00/2009

Additional Information: SAN No. 5189
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Gary Blais Environmental Protection Agency Air and Radiation MD-15, C404-05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone:919 541-3223 Fax:919 541-0242 Email: blais.gary@epa.gov Chebryll Edwards Environmental Protection Agency Air and Radiation MD-12, C404-05, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone:919 541-5428 Fax:919 541-0242 Email: Edwards.Chebryll@epamail.epa.gov