Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Iron Ore Processing Security

Proclamation 10958 of July 17, 2025

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources
To Promote American Iron Ore Processing Security

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. Taconite iron ore processing is fundamental to the
United States' steel production and manufacturing
sectors. The facilities involved in the process supply
essential raw materials used to make steel, which is
used in national defense systems, critical
infrastructure, and a broad range of industrial
applications. Preserving and enhancing domestic
taconite processing capabilities is vital to reducing
reliance on foreign sources and ensuring resilience of
American industrial supply chains.

2. On March 6, 2024, the Environmental Protection
Agency published a final rule, pursuant to section 112
of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412, titled National
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants:
Taconite Iron Ore Processing, 89 FR 16408 (Taconite
Rule). The Taconite Rule imposes new emissions-control
requirements on taconite iron ore processing
facilities.

3. The Taconite Rule places significant burdens on a
sector critical to the Nation's industrial foundation.
The Taconite Rule mandates compliance with standards
that rely on emissions-control technologies that have
not been demonstrated to work in the taconite industry,
are untested at commercial scale, or are not reasonably
achievable under current operational conditions. If
enforced under the current timeline as set forth at 89
FR 16408, the Taconite Rule risks forcing shutdowns,
reducing domestic production, and undermining the
Nation's ability to supply steel for defense, energy,
and critical manufacturing. The United States must not
allow inflexible regulatory deadlines to jeopardize a
material critical to our industrial base. Maintaining
this capacity is essential to our national security and
economic resilience.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States,
including section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act, 42
U.S.C. 7412(i)(4), do hereby proclaim that certain
stationary sources subject to the Taconite Rule, as
identified in Annex I of this proclamation, are exempt
from compliance with the Taconite Rule for a period of
2 years beyond the Taconite Rule's relevant compliance
dates (Exemption). The technology to implement the
Taconite Rule is not currently available, and it is
necessary to issue this Exemption now because long
design, permitting, and construction lead times mean
that regulated entities will not be able to meet the
relevant compliance deadlines absent compliance relief.
This Exemption applies to all compliance deadlines
established under the Taconite Rule, with each such
deadline extended by 2 years from the date originally
required for such deadline. The effect of this
Exemption is that, during each such 2-year period,
these stationary sources are subject to the emissions
and compliance obligations that they are currently
subject to under the applicable standard as that
standard existed prior to the Taconite Rule. In support
of this Exemption, I hereby make the following
determinations:

a. The technology to implement the Taconite Rule is
not available. Such technology does not exist in a
commercially viable form sufficient to allow

implementation of and compliance with the Taconite Rule
by the compliance dates in the Taconite Rule.
b. It is in the national security interests of the
United States to issue this Exemption for the reasons
stated in paragraphs 1 and 3 of this proclamation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

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