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Section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, establishes certain authorities concerning financial responsibility requirements. The Agency has identified classes of facilities within the chemical manufacturing industry; the petroleum and coal products manufacturing industry, which primarily includes refineries and not coal mines; and the electric power generation, transmission, and distribution industry as those for which it plans to develop, as necessary, proposed financial responsibility requirements. On December 1, 2016, the Agency made a determination to proceed with rulemakings for the chemical manufacturing; petroleum and coal products manufacturing; and the electric power generation, transmission, and distribution industries. These rulemakings will either develop proposed financial responsibility requirements under CERCLA section 108(b) or determine such requirements are not necessary.