Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-30116
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program: Order on Petitions for Objection to State Operating Permit for United States Steel Corp., Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant
Posted Date: 2023-10-17T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 71550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-22877]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-11457-01-R3]

Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Order on Petitions for 
Objection to State Operating Permit for United States Steel 
Corporation, Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final order on petition.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator signed 
an order dated September 18, 2023, on two petitions, each dated March 
6, 2023, granting in part and denying in part a petition from the 
Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), the Clean Air Council (CAC), and 
Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) (the EIP Petition), and granting in 
full a separate petition from the Group Against Smog and Pollution 
(GASP) (the GASP Petition). The petitions requested that the EPA object 
to a Clean Air Act (CAA) title V operating permit issued by the 
Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) to the U.S. Steel Mon Valley 
Works Clairton Plant (U.S. Steel, Clairton) for its by-products coke 
plant located in Clairton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Talley, EPA Region III, (215) 
814-2117, [email protected]. The final order and petition are 
available electronically at: www.epa.gov/title-v-operating-permits/title-v-petition-database.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA received the EIP Petition and the GASP 
Petition, each dated March 6, 2023, requesting that the EPA object to 
the issuance of operating permit no. 0052-OP22, issued by ACHD to U.S. 
Steel, Clairton in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. On September 18, 
2023, the EPA Administrator issued an order granting in part and 
denying in part the EIP petition and granting in full the GASP 
petition. The order itself explains the basis for the EPA's decision.
    Sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the CAA provide that a petitioner 
may request judicial review of those portions of an order that deny 
issues in a petition. Any petition for review shall be filed in the 
United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit no later 
than December 18, 2023.

Cristina Fern[aacute]ndez,
Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2023-22877 Filed 10-16-23; 8:45 am]
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