Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act
Sponsored By: Representative Balderson
Introduced
Summary
Domestic vanadium recovery. This bill would exempt certain recycling units that process spent petroleum catalyst from hazardous-waste furnace rules to speed recovery of vanadium and other metals and strengthen U.S. supplies for steel, energy, and defense.
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- Manufacturers, infrastructure, and defense: Would make it easier to get vanadium domestically by promoting recycling of spent hydrotreating and hydrorefining catalyst for use in steel, energy storage, and defense applications.
- Recyclers and refineries: Would clarify that roasters, furnaces, and hydrometallurgical units reclaiming metals from spent petroleum catalyst (K171 and K172) are excluded from Boiler and Industrial Furnace requirements and can use the transfer-based exclusion at 40 C.F.R. 261.4(a)(24).
- Environmental regulators: Directs the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a final rule revising Solid Waste Disposal Act subtitle C regulations, lets that rule take effect on publication, and allows the agency to proceed without the standard notice-and-comment process.
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Easier recycling rules for refiners
If enacted, the bill would tell the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a final rule quickly. The rule would exempt units that reclaim valuable metals from spent petroleum hydrotreating and hydrorefining catalyst (K171 and K172) from Boilers and Industrial Furnaces requirements. It would cover thermal treatment units (for example, roasters) and metallurgical units (for example, furnaces and hydrometallurgical units). The rule would also confirm that companies can use the transfer-based exclusion when sending spent catalyst to third-party recyclers. EPA would be allowed to complete the rulemaking without the usual public notice-and-comment steps and the rule would take effect on the day it is published in the Federal Register.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Balderson
OH • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
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