Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Coke Oven Processing Security

Proclamation 10993 of November 21, 2025

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources
To Promote American Coke Oven Processing Security

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

1. Steel plays a vital role in the United States
economy and daily life, underpinning infrastructure,
manufacturing, and various other industries. It is a
fundamental material for construction, transportation,
energy systems, military hardware, and countless other
products, contributing significantly to the Nation's
economic output and job creation. Currently,
approximately 70 percent of all steel is made using
metallurgical coke, a high-quality fuel and reductant
used in blast furnaces to reduce iron ore to pig iron.
A strong coke industry is therefore vital to building
and maintaining critical infrastructure and military
readiness.

2. On July 5, 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 for Coke Ovens:
Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks, and Coke Oven
Batteries; Residual Risk and Technology Review, and
Periodic Technology Review, 89 FR 55684 (Coke Oven
Rule). The Coke Oven Rule imposes new emissions-control
requirements on coke oven facilities.

3. The Coke Oven Rule places severe burdens on the coke
production industry and, through its indirect effects,
on the viability of our Nation's critical
infrastructure, defense, and national security.
Specifically, the Coke Oven Rule requires compliance
with standards premised on the application of
emissions-control technologies that do not yet exist in
a commercially demonstrated or cost-effective form.
Many of the testing and monitoring requirements
outlined in the Coke Oven Rule rely on technologies
that are not practically available, not demonstrated at
the necessary scale, or cannot be implemented safely or
consistently under real-world conditions. Due to the
Coke Oven Rule's onerous implementation and compliance
schedule for these standards, many coke production
facilities are in the impossible position of designing
and engineering novel systems with unproven technology
within a short time frame. The current compliance
timeline of the Coke Oven Rule as set forth at 89 FR
55690 therefore raises the unacceptable risk of
threatening facility closures, production halts, and
lasting harm to the domestic coke production industry.
This in turn would undermine our national security, as
these effects would substantially impact local and
national economies and would undermine the coke and
steel sectors' vital role in producing the iron and
steel needed to support critical infrastructure and
defense.

4. 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 Coke Oven Rule, as
identified in Annex I of this proclamation, are exempt
from compliance with certain requirements of the Coke
Oven Rule for a period of 2 years beyond the Coke Oven
Rule's relevant compliance dates (Exemption). This
Exemption applies to all compliance deadlines
established under the Coke Oven Rule applicable to the
stationary sources listed

in Annex I, 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 and with respect to the particular
requirements identified in Annex I, these stationary
sources will be subject to the emissions and compliance
obligations that they are currently subject to under
the applicable standard as that standard existed prior
to the Coke Oven Rule. In support of this Exemption, I
hereby make the following determinations:

a. The technology to implement the Coke Oven Rule
is not available. Such technology does not exist in a
commercially viable form sufficient to allow
implementation of and compliance with the Coke Oven
Rule by the compliance dates in the Coke Oven 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
twenty-first day of November, 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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Vol. 90

Wednesday,

No. 226

November 26, 2025

Part II

The President

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Proclamation 10993--Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To
Promote American Coke Oven Processing Security

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