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USCA Case #24-1287 Document #2077531 Filed: 09/30/2024 Page 23 of 81 railroads, municipal/water infrastructure (e.g., piping, fire hydrants, and manhole covers), military equipment (e.g., vehicles, gear, and firearm parts). 56. Without steel, the United States economy and its infrastructure would collapse. SunCoke produces approximately 40% of the entire domestic coke supply used by the domestic steel industry. SunCoke is the largest independent blast furnace coke producer in North America, with an annual 4.2 million tons of coke production capacity. JWO is one of only two domestic foundry coke producers, and it supplies a significant amount of foundry coke in the United States market. If SunCoke could not produce its coke, the existing United States blast furnaces would be forced to find a foreign source of coke, most likely from China, to replace SunCoke's much cleaner coke. SunCoke is such a substantial supplier of coke to the United States steel industry that there is no way that SunCoke's blast furnace coke could be replaced by any domestic supplier. 57. SunCoke has the youngest, most advanced fleet of cokemaking facilities in the United States. The average age of the SunCoke facility is 23 years--which compares favorably to the average (Page 23 of Total) - 23- Sierra Club FOIA 2025-EPA-04883 ED_018388_00000109-00122 SC_EVERSPLIT0005796