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Coke Ovens Rule Presidential Exemption Request March 31, 2025 Page 2 of 7 4) Lowered limits for leaks from coke oven doors, lids, and offlakes. 'Ile American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute (ACCC1) and Coke Oven Environmental Task Force (COFTF), in which Cleveland-Cliffs participates, filed a petition for reconsideration and administrative stay of the Coke Ovens Rule, urging EPA to reconsider numerous aspects of the Coke Ovens Rule and to stay the effective date pending promulgation of replacement regulations. On March 12, 2025. EPA announced it will reconsider several National Emission Standards for I Ia7ardous Air Pollutants (NESI IAPs) affecting a broad range of American industry, including the Coke Ovens Rule. On March 21, 2025, EPA informed the COFTF that it will reconsider all the issues included in our petition for reconsideration for the Coke Ovens Rule. CAA section 1 12(i)(4) provides that the President may exempt any stationary source from compliance with any standard or limitation under section 112 for up to two years if the President determines that the technology to implement such standard is not available and it is in the national security interests of the United States to do so. Section 112( i)(4) further provides that an exemption may be extended one or more additional periods, each additional period not to exceed two years. Cleveland-Cliffs is requesting a two-year Presidential Exemption for each of the following Coke Ovens Rule requirements: 1) Fenccline monitoring, root cause and corrective action, and related reporting requirements:. 2) Limits for allowable leaks from coke oven battery doors, lids, and offtakes and related reporting requirements; and 3) New MACT and work practice standards for coke oven pushing and battery stacks and related testing and reporting requirements. A Presidential Exemption is wan-anted for the reasons detailed below. I. This Request is Timely This request has been submitted by the March 31, 2025 date indicated in EPA's {. -1.._%q ti \e= I;Ilo_ri,, Iil.r fact sheet. 11- he ACCCI1COETF's comments on thc proposed rule and petition for reconsideration and stay arc hcrcby incorporated by reference in support of this request- Sc'e ACCCI1COH.TE Petition for Reconsideration and Stay of the National Emission Standards for I la7ardous Air Pollutants for Coke Ovens. Pushing, Quenching, and Hattcry Stacks, and Cokc Ovcn Batteries; Residual Risk and Technology Rcview, and Periodic Technology Rcvicw (Sept. 3, 2024) ("ACCCl/COETF Petition for Reconsideration and Stay"); COETE Comments on thc Proposed Rule National Emission Standards for I la7ardous Air Pollutants for Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks, and Coke Oven Batteries: Residual Risk and Tcchnology Rcview, and Periodic Technology Revicw (Oct 2, 2023) ("COETF C'ornmcnts"), available at https:..www regulations goy'commcnt'EPA-I IQ-OAR-2003-005 1 -1380. 1104095877,3\AMERICAS Sierra Club FOIA 2025-EPA-04883 ED_018388_00000167-00002 SC_EVERSPLIT0005941