EPA Requests Renewal of Metal Fabrication Pollution Data Collection
Published Date: 11/18/2025
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Summary
The EPA is asking to keep collecting info from nine types of metal shops to make sure they follow pollution rules. This renewal won’t add new costs but keeps the paperwork going until at least November 2025. If you’re involved in metal fabrication or finishing, you can share your thoughts by December 18, 2025.
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Metal Shops Keep Mandatory Reporting
If you own or operate a metal fabrication or finishing facility that is an area source of hazardous metal emissions (cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, or nickel), you must continue monthly and annual reports, performance tests, and recordkeeping under the NESHAP. EPA estimates 5,800 respondents, 39,000 hours of paperwork per year, and a total annual burden cost of $5,340,000. The information collection is mandatory under 40 CFR part 63, subpart XXXXXX and is currently approved through November 30, 2025.
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