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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.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to approve the request from the State of Kansas (the State) to redesignate portions of Saline County, Salina, Kansas (Salina area) to attainment for the 2008 lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The EPA's approval of the redesignation request is based on the determination that the Salina area has met the criteria for redesignation to attainment set forth in the Clean Air Act (CAA), including the determination that the area has attained the standard. Additionally, the EPA is granting final approval of the State's plan for maintaining the 2008 lead NAAQS in the Salina area for ten years beyond redesignation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the Secondary Lead Smelting source category ("Secondary Lead Smelting NESHAP") under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 112. The EPA did not identify any cost-effective developments in practices, processes, and/or control technologies and is not proposing changes to the Secondary Lead Smelting NESHAP as a result of the technology review. The EPA is proposing to address previously unregulated hazardous air pollutants (HAP) from this source category. We are also addressing outstanding petition issues from the 2012 Secondary Lead Smelting (RTR), hereafter referred to as the 2012 RTR. In response to the petitions, we are taking comment on our conclusion in the 2012 RTR that the Secondary Lead Smelting NESHAP provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health and on two additional provisions. In addition, the EPA is proposing revisions related to emissions during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction; to add requirements for electronic reporting; to revise monitoring requirements; and to make other minor technical revisions.
OSHA is extending the period for submitting comments by 60 days to allow stakeholders interested in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Lead additional time to review the NPRM and collect information and data necessary for comment.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve the request to redesignate portions of Saline County, Salina, Kansas to attainment for the 2008 lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The EPA's proposed approval of the redesignation request is based on the determination that the Salina area has met the criteria for redesignation to attainment set forth in the Clean Air Act (CAA), including the determination that the area has attained the standard. Additionally, the EPA is proposing to approve the State's plan for maintaining the 2008 lead NAAQS in the Salina area for ten years beyond redesignation.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of November 12, 2024, that finalized several revisions to EPA's lead-based paint (LBP) regulations. Subsequent to publication, the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) informed the Agency that there were errors in the amendatory instructions that describe specific revisions for two sections of the regulation. In the Federal Register of December 16, 2024, EPA published a technical correction to the final rule that explained the errors and the corresponding technical corrections that the Agency believed would address the errors identified by the OFR. Unfortunately, that technical correction did not fix the amendatory instructions prior to the effective date of the final rule. As a result, when the final rule became effective on January 13, 2025, three subparagraphs of regulatory text were inadvertently deleted--a change to the post-abatement regulatory activities that EPA did not intend to make. This action corrects that error by restoring the inadvertently deleted text in the regulations.
This proposed rule revises some substance-specific respirator requirements to allow different types of respirators to be used under OSHA's Lead standards and better aligns the standards with OSHA's Respiratory Protection standard.