Glass Factories' Arsenic Paperwork Gets EPA Renewal Nod
Published Date: 2/28/2025
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Summary
The EPA is asking to keep collecting info from glass factories about arsenic emissions to keep the air safe. This renewal won’t add new rules but extends the current paperwork until after February 2025. Glass manufacturers and the public can comment until March 31, 2025, with no new costs expected.
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Glass plants must keep reporting arsenic emissions
If you run a glass manufacturing plant, you must keep providing information to EPA to show compliance with 40 CFR part 61, subpart N. EPA estimates 16 respondents will report (initially, then semiannually), with a total burden of 3,100 hours per year and total estimated costs of $470,000 per year (including $79,400 annualized capital or operation & maintenance).
Which furnaces are covered by the reporting rule
The information collection applies to each existing and new glass melting furnace that uses commercial arsenic as a raw material at a glass manufacturing plant. The standards do not apply to pot furnaces, and re-bricking is not treated as construction or modification under 40 CFR 61.05(a).
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