9010 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 23 / Wednesday, February 5, 2025 / Rules and Regulations 

Dated: January 29, 2025. 

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick, 

Secretary, Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

Vanessa A. Countryman, 

Secretary, Securities and Exchange 

Commission. 

Note: The following Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (CFTC) appendix will 

not appear in the Code of Federal 

Regulations. 

CFTC Appendix to Form PF; Reporting 

Requirements for All Filers and Large 

Hedge Fund Advisers; Extension of 

Compliance Date—CFTC Voting 

Summary 

On this matter, Acting Chairman Pham and 

Commissioners Behnam, Johnson, Goldsmith 

Romero, and Mersinger voted in the 

affirmative. No Commissioner voted in the 

negative. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 261, 262, 266, and 372 

[FRL–12583.1–02–OA] 

Delay of Effective Date for 2 Final 

Regulations Published by the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Between December 11, 2024, and 

January 6, 2025 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective 

dates. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

memorandum of January 20, 2025, from 

President Donald J. Trump, entitled 

‘‘Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,’’ 

this action temporarily delays until 

March 21, 2025, the effective date of the 

regulations listed in the table below. 

EPA has identified two additional 

regulations that meet the criteria in the 

memo and may identify additional 

regulations in subsequent notices. 

DATES: As of February 5, 2025, the 

effective dates of the rules published at 

89 FR 99727 (December 11, 2024), and 

90 FR 573 (January 6, 2025), are delayed 

to March 21, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William Nickerson, Director, Office of 

Regulatory Policy and Management, 

Office of Policy, Mail code 1804, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 

20460; (202) 566–0326; 

nickerson.william@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA is 

taking this action in response to the 

memorandum of January 20, 2025, from 

the President, entitled ‘‘Regulatory 

Freeze Pending Review.’’ The 

memorandum directed the heads of 

Executive Departments and Agencies to 

consider postponing for sixty days from 

the date of the memorandum the 

effective date for any rules that have 

been published in the Federal Register 

but had not yet taken effect for the 

purpose of reviewing any questions of 

fact, law, and policy that the rules may 

raise. EPA issued a final rule on January 

28, 2025, to delay the effective date of 

4 regulations (90 FR 8254). EPA has 

determined there are an additional 2 

regulations, shown in the table below, 

that meet the criteria for delaying the 

respective effective dates. The new 

effective date for these two regulations 

is March 21, 2025. 

The EPA is taking this action, without 

opportunity for public comment and 

effective immediately, based on the 

good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3), in that seeking 

public comment is impracticable, 

unnecessary and contrary to the public 

interest. The temporary delay in 

effective dates until March 21, 2025, is 

necessary to give Agency officials the 

opportunity for further review and 

consideration of new regulations, 

consistent with the memorandum of the 

President dated January 20, 2025. Given 

the imminence of the effective dates of 

these regulations, seeking prior public 

comment on this temporary delay is 

impractical, as well as contrary to the 

public interest in the orderly 

promulgation and implementation of 

regulations. In addition, to the extent 

any regulation below is an interpretive 

rule, general statement of policy, or rule 

of agency organization, procedure, or 

practice, it is exempt from notice and 

comment under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A). 

For the foregoing reasons, the good 

cause exception in 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) 

also applies to EPA’s decision to make 

this action effectively immediately. 

Moreover, to the extent that extending 

the effective date of any of these rules 

would grant an exception or relieve a 

restriction, an exception also applies 

under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1). 

Federal Register 

citation Title Publication date 

Original 

effective 

date 

New 

effective 

date 

89 FR 99727 ............. Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule, the Hazardous Waste 

Pharmaceuticals Rule, and the Definition of Solid Waste Rule; Technical 

Corrections.

12/11/2024 2/10/2025 3/21/2025 

90 FR 573 ................. Implementing Statutory Addition of Certain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) to Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Beginning With Reporting Year 2025.1/6/2025 2/5/2025 3/21/2025 

Where appropriate, the Agency may 

consider further delaying the effective 

dates of the above-referenced 

regulations beyond March 21, 2025. If 

the Agency were to do so, consistent 

with the memorandum of the President, 

the Agency would consider whether to 

propose any later effective date for 

public comment. 

Lee Zeldin, 

Administrator. 

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